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Today we launched a beta version of our Xat radio IP search feature. With it, users will be able to search for radio stations, get details about its genre, bitrate (quality of the signal – higher is better), popularity, and even listen to or preview what’s currently playing (tune in).

More importantly, and what makes it very useful to Xat users, the search feature will allow you to GET the IP of each station, which in turn can be used to add a radio station to your Xat chat or your radio power.

Once you have your IP address, just refer to our easy to follow tutorial on how to add radio to your Xat chat.

Stay tuned for more info!

Update 1: The price for radio has already dropped to 9826 Xats.
Update 2: The price for radio has dropped to 9743 Xats.

Oh, this is gonna be a fun one!

Update 3: The shocking “final” truth! 10,000+ all the way down to 250 xats!

The second feature of the new Xat radio power allows you to have your choice radio station follow you around from chat to chat. From what we understand, and assuming we’re correct in our interpretation, this would allow a user to listen to his/her own radio station irrespective of whether a chat had music playing or not. We’ll have to get back to you on this as we’re unable to test this out at the moment.

Code format:
(radio#RADIO_STATION_IP_WOULD_GO_HERE)

To take your station with you’d put something like this in your name:
(radio#http://64.191.114.105:8958)

Anyone, including you, would simply click the radio icon and the music would start playing.

This power is very beta, and at the moment we’re struggling to get it working. When we have more to show, or need to clear up any of the above, we’ll update this post.

Stay tuned!

Update August 28, 9:16 AM: This morning we woke up to a “working” radio power, woohoo! We can now clear up a few things.

If you add the radio code to your name field (see below), by simply clicking that icon anyone, including yourself, can listen to your radio station. Using this technique you could enter any chat, click your own radio icon, bypass whatever station is/isn’t playing, and listen to your favorite radio station whenever you feel like it.

Adding Xat radio code to the name field

To listen to your radio you or anyone would simply click the radio icon next to your name.

A few extra things to try out (see below):
(radio#y) = allows you to “cycle” the radio power (you need the cycle power for this)
(d#radio#g#r) = allows you to add the radio “notes” to a smile

Today we launched a page aimed specifically at generating new listeners for a few select Xat radio chats.

Our idea, with the help of a very simple tutorial, is to help distribute the IP addresses of several well-known/unknown online radio stations. To start we will be trying to get one Xat radio station for each genre of music (i.e. rock, punk, dance, etc…).

If you’re interested, or know someone that might be, feel free to direct them to our new Xat radio page for more details.

Thanks!