{"id":17610,"date":"2016-12-09T07:55:36","date_gmt":"2016-12-09T12:55:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/streamingradioguide.com\/startingover\/?p=17610"},"modified":"2016-12-09T07:55:36","modified_gmt":"2016-12-09T12:55:36","slug":"the-apps-have-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/streamingradioguide.com\/startingover\/?p=17610","title":{"rendered":"The Apps have it!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/streamingradioguide.com\/startingover\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/IMG_1662.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/streamingradioguide.com\/startingover\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/IMG_1662.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"96\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-17611\" srcset=\"https:\/\/streamingradioguide.com\/startingover\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/IMG_1662.jpg 300w, https:\/\/streamingradioguide.com\/startingover\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/IMG_1662-150x48.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/streamingradioguide.com\/startingover\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/IMG_1663.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/streamingradioguide.com\/startingover\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/IMG_1663.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"97\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-17612\" srcset=\"https:\/\/streamingradioguide.com\/startingover\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/IMG_1663.jpg 300w, https:\/\/streamingradioguide.com\/startingover\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/IMG_1663-150x49.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Now that the station scanner is smarter, it is a surprise how many stations that have a perfectly fine mobile friendly player also offer apps.  It isn&#8217;t clear if people use them, but adding the app download links seems like it might make sense.<\/p>\n<p>IHeartRadio and TuneIn are special cases of aggregators &#8211; these links are for a single station.  The reason why a station wants the app is pretty clear &#8211; what the advantage to the listener is isn&#8217;t so obvious.<\/p>\n<p>Any personal experiences or opinions?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Now that the station scanner is smarter, it is a surprise how many stations that have a perfectly fine mobile friendly player also offer apps. It isn&#8217;t clear if people use them, but adding the app download links seems like &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/streamingradioguide.com\/startingover\/?p=17610\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17610","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-about-the-guide"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/streamingradioguide.com\/startingover\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17610","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/streamingradioguide.com\/startingover\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/streamingradioguide.com\/startingover\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/streamingradioguide.com\/startingover\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/streamingradioguide.com\/startingover\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=17610"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/streamingradioguide.com\/startingover\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17610\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17615,"href":"https:\/\/streamingradioguide.com\/startingover\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17610\/revisions\/17615"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/streamingradioguide.com\/startingover\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=17610"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/streamingradioguide.com\/startingover\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=17610"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/streamingradioguide.com\/startingover\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=17610"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}