Now, there’s an idea. Hadn’t thought of that. It would be nice to listen to KXLU sometimes.
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The page I linked to lists several approaches to solving this problem. Scroll down to #4 for the app.
TuneIn Radio is an excellent app for radio streaming - tens of thousands of stations from all over the world (including KXLU)
I’ve been meaning to expand on this.
In my experience, at least, I’ve almost always found that TuneIn Radio streams more reliably than any station’s own app. Still, for your favorite stations you’ll want to download their apps anyway since they will usually have helpful additional features like allowing you to podcast missed programs and so forth.
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Speaking of KXLU, I went to a Demolisten party of theirs in 1995. My gf/future wife and I more or less just wandered in because it was being held at the independent Mingle Inn coffee shop, which just happened to be around the corner from my apartment at the time. Interesting times to say the least–on the way in there was a woman passing out little vials of herbal Ecstasy, which was legal at the time, and which I tried to absolutely no effect at all.
Aside from that particular event, thinking back on those times makes me really miss the era of indy coffeeshops, when they were strung all up and down Santa Monica Boulevard (though Mingle was on Wilshire). I used to have four or five of them that were within a very easy walk.
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Who knew downloading apps would be such a PITA?
After seeing an Xfinity commercial I thought, ‘Hey, I have Xfinity! And people watch stuff on smartphones. I’ll download the Xfinity TV 2 Go app!’ Xfinity’s website says I have to get it through Google Play on my phone. So I go to Google Play on my phone. I have to log in. Only it didn’t like the password for my ‘real’(-ish) email address. I know I use a completely different name on Google. What’s the password for that? I must have spent half an hour (clock time) figuring it out. Finally got to the point where I can download the app. Tried to download the app. I got an error saying I can’t download an app until I’ve already downloaded an app. :smack:
I ended up downloading a flashlight app, and then it finally let me download the Xfinity app. No time to try it out, though.
Yes, the google account you most likely created when setting up the phone is also the one that is used in the google play store. And you basically just went through play store setup, so you won’t have to do what you just did again.
However, if you want to buy an app you will need to remember that password again because google will require your password to confirm you actually want to buy something. You can turn this check off but I don’t recommend it as otherwise it’s a one-click-and-you’ve-bought it deal. And you only have 15 minutes to return a paid-for app you don’t like or didn’t mean to buy.
You will also want to remember this google account and password because it’s used for access to all of their services. When you get a new phone in the future you can use the same account and bypass all the hassles of setting up a new account.
I recommend syncing your contacts with google. This way if your phone is lost or stolen your contacts are saved in google’s servers as well and can be auto-loaded onto a new phone. It will have asked for permission to do this during initial phone set-up. If you didn’t say “yes” then, you can do it now by going to your app drawer -> settings -> accounts -> google -> tap on email at top -> see if “sync contacts” is set to on. And if not, do so. Syncing app data as well, for example, means that when you get a new phone you can choose to have it auto-install all the apps you were using on the old phone to your new phone.
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You can have multiple GMail accounts on your phone as well, and at the same time have only one of them set up for payments with the Play Store.
If you download a paid app, you can install it on as many Android devices as you own. So if you decide to upgrade your phone while holding onto your present handset as a spare, you can have your paid apps on both. The right to download and use paid apps goes with you and your GMail account, not your handset.
Watching at home on wifi, you must mean. If you try this on the mobile network, you’ll blow through your data allowance very quickly.