Any apps for police/fire dispatch realtime?

[christim]

I just turned my droid into a police scanner and it's free! First, I downloaded Cherry Rplayer from the market. This is a highly rated free audio stream player. There are others like Droidlive.

There was a post a month or two ago that was similar and droidlive lite was recommended to do the same thing. I tried it at the time and thought it was pretty cool. My town wasn't listed but some of the other ones nearby towns were covered.

At the time there was discussion about how much better it would be for the paid app to have a listing of all the towns available prior to purchase. No idea if that exists now or not. Another cool feature would be a roaming gps one where you could toggle between your favorite towns or just have it know, via gps/cell-tower where you were and grab the scans for that location.

 

[tonydjd]

scanner set up thank you

I just turned my droid into a police scanner and it's free! First, I downloaded Cherry Rplayer from the market. This is a highly rated free audio stream player. There are others like Droidlive.

Now for the hard part. Go to RadioReference.com - Scanner Frequencies and Radio Frequency Reference and find the stream you want. First, click the "Live Audio" link, ignore any errors about needing Adobe Flash, then from the pulldown menus on the left select your county, metro area, or state. This brings up a list of available feeds. Simply find the feed you like and select iTunes from the "Player Selection" pulldown. Finally, click the speaker icon on the left side associated with that feed. Your stream player will then open up and start playing the live feed! In the cherry player, you can add this to your favorites.




I think this is great. A police scanner costs about $100 and here the droid gives it to me for free, and it's smaller than any police scanner out there.

BONUS: Cherry Rplayer let's you listen to all kinds of radio stations including howard stern. Just do a search for Howard.

awesome great directions