Okay, been playing with this for the last few minutes and I make the
following observations.
Firstly I had to use the software with JAWS, couldn't get much out of it
with NVDA.
Second, it seems that the database hasn't been updated for some time, I
can of course only go on what I see in my country of Australia as that's
the only place I've looked thus far.
I estimate that the database is over 4 years old as there are many
stations which were boradcasting 4 years ago listed here.
Many of the stations referred to in Australia are not streaming now due
to royalty issues which still needed to be sorted in the Australian
courts so - if you hear nothing on a stream - then don't be surprised.
I guess that's the disadvantage of having an App like this use its own
database, you have to be pretty dedicated to keep that database up to date.
Perhaps the developer has good reasons for ding this, I don't know what
sort of fee the Vtuner database of Internet radio stations and Podcast
would charge any developer for access, I know that a lot of the products
I have here from Sangean, Denon, Yamaha and Pioneer use it for their
Internet Radio data but then again these company's have pockets filled
with cash compared to an individual software developer.
Apart from all that I was most impressed with the layout of the software
so I sincerely hope that we'll see more udpates to Tapin Radio in the
future.
- Tapin Radio Dane Trethowan
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