It’s ironic that I have to tune into a radio station from Karachi, Pakistan to listen to the radio station I wish Toronto had. I love CityFM89 because it always makes me ask the question a good radio station should make you ask: “…what song is that?!” It resonates with people who don’t put themselves in boxes when it comes to music. Genres should only categorize music, not limit it. I never understood why there couldn’t be a radio station that just chucked out anything from hip-hop to country to qawwali to Japanese pop out there at any given moment and said “there, how does that taste?” Anyway, I could go on about CityFM89 and I’ve probably overhyped it to the point of sounding like the very Radio DJs I’m hating on right now, but to get to the real point of this article, a simple How To on listening to CityFM89 or any other awesome radio station on your phone.

How to listen to CityFM89 or your favourite radio station on your phone for free:

This will work on most smartphones that support internet and multimedia, like BlackBerry, iPhone, Nokia, Sony, Samsung, Motorola, etc. Windows Mobile devices are probably out of luck unless the manufacturer installed 3GPP streaming like HTC. Also, since radio takes a lot of data, make sure you have a flat-rate/unlimited data package, or something large enough to handle regular streaming (above 500mb/month at least).

Sign up for Moodio and search for your radio station (e.g. Cityfm89) or explore some random ones. If you can’t find a specific one just go to the radio station’s website and they’ll probably have a streaming link. Just copy the URL of that link (it gives you instructions on how to do this on Moodio) and add it to their Stations list. Then, point your mobile browser to http://m.moodio.fm and the rest is pretty straight forward. When you click on the link it should open in your phone’s media player. If this doesn’t happen… meh.

To make it easier just add your favourite stations to “My Stations” and bookmark the “My Stations” page on your browser. It’s not a nice and fancy app but it does the job okay?

How to listen to CityFM89 or your favourite radio station on your phone for not-free:

If you want to listen to CityFM89 through a BlackBerry app, you’ll have to put up $25 US to get Nobex Radio Companion Premium. You can listen to North American stations for free though, and some of them are awesome enough to give you a look at the playlist if you like a song but don’t know the name. If you’re only interested in North American stations, there’s lots of radio apps out there that will do that for you.

Rock on! (yeah that’s the best closer I could think of)

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