tunewiki streaming through BIS

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I heard of an app called "tunewiki" on another thread and gave it a bash. I streamed some stations for a few seconds a piece and saw my balance was untouched. Wondering if this is really streaming through BIS, or will I receive a stiff bill later on? Anybody have experience with this app? I'm on mtn topup contract
 
Dude I have been using tunewiki for some time now and no you won't get billed as I have 0 balance airtime on my VC prepaid sim and it still streams without any problems. ;)
 
Bluray said:
Dude I have been using tunewiki for some time now and no you won't get billed as I have 0 balance airtime on my VC prepaid sim and it still streams without any problems. ;)
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is your sim registered?
 
Piesang said:
Can you listen to any radio station with this or just the stations build into the app?
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Now that you asked I need to check as I have only streamed through tunewiki and I have my iPhone which I play my music through.
 
The app has a search function. Every station I searched for so far was found and it played. So I'd say it streams all stations.
 
Tunewiki uses BIS, I use it to listen to Shoutcast stations which play much better music than local radio.

If you want to listen to local radio, use an app called TuneIn, doesn't use BIS though, only direct TCP or wifi. http://radiotime.com/bb
 
Piesang said:
I got a e-mail from TuneWiki. They said that TuneWiki doesn't use BIS at all and that you have to use a dataplan for it.
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Good for me then, maybe tunewiki and rim think I have a data plan sim...lol
 
I been thinking about this last night. I do recall trying the app earlier this year when I got my blackberry. I remember streaming a station and I remember watching my airtime drop at a rapid rate. When I tried it again after seeing it mentioned in another thread a few days ago, my airtime balance didn't budge. I've been using it for three days straight and not a cent of my airtime went down. I'm on a topup contract, so what piesang thinks it could be appears to be inaccurate. I do remember some time between then and now I changed my APN to blackberry.net to keep opera on BIS. Perhaps that has something to do with why tunewiki no longer uses my airtime.
 
All shoutcast streams will go though BIS.
The shoutcast stream is like a never ending .mp3.
 
But in general streaming goes through the carrier regardless if its audio or video. There is a file-size limit on BIS for mp3's and I think its 15MB or something, so I kinda doubt your never ending mp3 theory is accurate. The way a direct audio file download is handled is different to the way streaming audio is handled. Only thing that makes sense to me is by changing the APN to blackberry.net, the application is forced to access the media through the blackberry access point. Anybody willing to test that?
 
I have set the APN to blackberry.net and I used Tunewiki. My airtime got less and less. So I uninstalled it and now its fine.

Off topic- why can't I receive emails with attachments of 7MB files?
 
Piesang said:
I've received 4-5MB files before??
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"Email messages received using the BlackBerry Internet Service cannot exceed 8 MB (Limited to 5 MB for the attachment plus 3 MB for the email message), regardless of the size of the customer's email mailbox.

Off the Vodacom Website - My store/Blackberry Plans
 
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