Like other radio-streaming apps, TuneIn gives you an enormous list of music genres to choose from, each with a long list of options from around the world, with local choices at the top. You can also choose from categories like sports or talk radio. You can browse local radio, recommended stations, stations for different languages, and even podcasts.

Upon launch, TuneIn lets you drill down to exactly what you want to listen to.

It offers more than 50,000 stations and 120,000 shows from around the globe, plus, with the help of your iPhone's GPS, it can even serve up all of your local favorites. TuneIn Radio (free - iOS| Android) has an intuitive interface that makes it a snap to listen to streaming radio while you're on the move. Even though you're listening to live radio, you can often buy the song on iTunes (for iOS). The third is a free app that shares some features of each of the first two, and which might be the best of the bunch. The second lets you listen to streams as well, but with a subscription so you can pick and choose your music too.

The first app gives you a huge number of live stations from around the globe you can listen to. This week's collection of apps is all about listening to streaming music on your smartphone.

IOS| Android), but there are a few I like that have other options that might appeal to different types of music listeners. The obvious choice here is an app like Pandora (free. These apps are set up for browsing through stations and genres so you can get a fresh dose of new options based on the music you like. There are tons of music-listening apps in both of the big app stores, but when you want to find new music, there's nothing better than a streaming-radio app.

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