TuneWiki isn’t necessarily a new app by any measure – they’ve been around, and quite honestly I don’t know why we haven’t sung their praises before. If you’re not familiar with them, TuneWiki is a free application for your Symbian-powered smartphone that gives you all sorts of access to awesome music-related content.
Local Music
For starters, you can use TuneWiki to listen to all the music you’ve loaded up on your phone’s memory card or internal storage. When you do this, TuneWiki automatically monitors your music library, which is kinda like refreshing your library in the built-in music player. When you play your music through TuneWiki, the app will automatically use the track’s metadata to try to look up the lyrics to the song – somewhat of a kareoke type feature. You can also search YouTube for the music video of said song, which is kinda cool.
Internet Radio
The best feature, though, of TuneWiki is the Shoutcast integration – that’s right, all those awesome Internet radio stations on Shoutcast are readily available through TuneWiki on your Symbian-powered smartphone. My personal favorites are from SomaFM, which we’ve covered here before. You can bookmark stations as ‘Favorites’, to easily get back to them, and you can browse through the directory or search for specific tracks.
As with locally-stored music, TuneWiki will use the metadata from the Internet radio station to try to look up lyrics for the song, and you can also search YouTube for the music video, if you’d like.
You can also poke around in their community features, which include popular TuneWiki playlists, Music Maps (popular music in certain geographic locations), and more.
Extras
There are two little features that really make me like TuneWiki enough to use it on a daily basis alongside Mobbler. For starters, TuneWiki is smart enough to pause the music when I unplug my headphones – something my Symbian-powered smartphone isn’t smart enough to do on its own. Second, you can ‘blip’ things to your social networks – Twitter and Facebook only, for now – letting your friends know what you’re listening to.
The Blip settings are quite cumbersome at the moment, and though you can setup a TuneWiki account, none of your settings are stored there, so you’ll have to re-do everything if you have to reinstall.
I use TuneWiki every single day, mainly just for streaming my favorite Shoutcast Internet radio stations – it’s a great app, and best of all, it’s free from the Ovi Store for S60v5 handsets.
If you’re looking for more music options on your Symbian-powered touchscreen smartphone, you really can’t go wrong with TuneWiki. Have you been using TuneWiki? What’s your favorite feature?
