How to listen to Irish radio stations on the iPhone

Update : 20th October 2008 – RTE Channels now work on the latest version of the Application. Check for an update even after you install it, as the version in the app store may not be the updated version.

iPhone alert, whoop, whoop. If you don’t have one this is of zero interest to you, so flick the channel now…

Ok, now that the non iPhone people are busy winding up the gramaphone, I have to let you know about THE best radio application for the iPhone.

It’s YASRA (yet another streaming radio application) called Wunder Radio,  but this time it’s got loads of Irish stations pre-loaded – I counted 52 in total.

Newstalk, FM104, Phantom and lots of other regional stations too. Here’s the rub though. Although all the RTE channels are there (including the digital ones), whatever way RTE do their streaming it doesn’t work on this iPhone application.

Everything else I’ve tried to listen to works, APART from the RTE channels. What’s the story? Anyone have this app and know how to fix it?

It’s crazy that I can listen to police scanners in New York (yes, this application streams output from ScanAmerica.us) and radio stations in Mozambique, but any output from Donnybrook is a non starter.

The application costs €4.99 and I think it’s worth the money to have all these channels ready to go.

[App Store Link]