TuneIn Radio is a mobile app that lets you find and listen to internet radio stations from around the world. It’s probably one of the best organized directories of internet radio available — but it can still take a bit of work to find stations that match your tastes. The developers have tackled that problem with TuneIn Radio 1.9 for iOS which adds recommended stations.

What’s cool about the station recommendations are that the app determines them based on songs in your music library.

Another nifty new music discovery option is the ability to shake your device to discovery related stations. All you have to do is start playing one of your favorite internet radio streams and then give your iPhone or iPod touch a shake and TuneIn will switch to another station with related content.

The latest update also adds song presets and a quicker search function.

TuneIn Radio is available as a free download from the App Store. There’s also an ad-free version for $0.99. TuneIn is also available for Android, but the new music discovery features haven’t made it to Android yet.

RadioTime has launched a new Pro version of the popular TuneIn Radio app for Android. Basically it’s identical to the free app in all respects but one: TuneIn Radio Pro lets you record live radio streams. It’s available for $0.99 from the Amazon Appstore, and should be available from the Android Market soon as well.

TuneIn lets you listen to internet radio streams from 50,000 stations around the globe. You can sort by location, genre, language, or other criteria, and save stations to your favorites list. If you have a RadioTime account you can login and access your presets right away.

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The folks at RadioTime have just pushed out a new version of TuneIn Radio for Android. The app still lets you listen to thousands of internet radio stations for free on an Android device, but the TuneIn Radio 2.0 n features new icons, and a tabbed user interface that makes navigation much smoother.

Actions that used to require 3 or 4 clicks, such as going from the now playing screen back to the home screen can now be done in 2 or three clicks.

The home screen is also now broken up into a “My Presets” and “Browse” area, allowing you to get to your saved radio stations much more quickly or browse for local stations or look up stations by category.

One of TuneIn’s niftiest features is that the app will show program schedules when available. So if you’re listening to Weekend Edition on your local NPR member station’s internet radio stream and you’re wondering how long you have to wait until Car Talk begins, TuneIn will tell you. Now there’s also a seek bar on the now playing screen so you can see how much time is left in the program at a glance — although when you’re listening to radio streams there’s no way to actually fast forward or rewind, so a seek bar seems like an odd choice.

The app was already probably one of the best internet radio apps for Android, and the update makes TuneIn a little more attractive and a little easier to use.

TuneIn Radio is available as a free download for Android 1.6 and up.

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TuneIn Radio is currently my favorite internet radio app for Android. You can use the app to find local stations that stream audio online based on your location, or browse or search for stations around the world by genre or keyword. You can also save presets. And since the app is from the folks behind the RadioTime internet radio service, if you already have a RadioTime account, when you login to TuneIn you’ll automatically find your presets.

While I use the free Android app, there are also free apps for BlackBerry and webOS and a $0.99 iOS app. Now TuneIn Radio is also available for Windows Phone 7.

For the most part, the free  Windows Phone 7 app seems to offer the same features you find in the other versions of the app including a directory of more than 30,000 radio stations. But the Windows Phone version takes advantage of the operating systems’ Metro UI, including the ability to swipe left or right to flip between different screens.

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RadioTime is an online resource for finding and listening to internet radio streams. You can do that through the RadioTime web site, using a web-based audio player. But RadioTime first came to my attention years ago because the company offered an excellent plugin for Windows Media Center which allowed you to access internet radio from a media PC using a remote control instead of a mouse and keyboard. RadioTime also has an app for Boxee, a cross-platform media center for Windows, Mac, and Linux.

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Now the company has launched a mobile app called TuneIn Radio, which brings the magic of RadioTime to Google Android. You don’t need a RadioTime account to use the free TuneIn Radio App. You can just search for radio stations by genre or location — one of RadioTime’s coolest features is that it can detect your location and find internet streams for local stations. You can also search for stations by location manually.

If you do have a RadioTime account, you can login and sync your presets, which means you can manage your presets from the RadioTime web site instead of your phone.

There are over 40,000 music, news, sports, and podcast channels available including streams available in the RadioTime directory.

TuneIn Radio is available as a free download from the Android Market.

Update: TuneIn appears to be a free, ad-supported version of the $1.99 RadioTime app which has been available in the market for a while. thanks VW!

You can find more screenshots after the break.

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