Drive Time in the 2010s (Part 4)

Listening to mountainchill in your car, SUV, or truck.

If you've read our previous posts, you probably have mountainchill streaming through your smartphone. You have a whole list of favorite Internet stations saved to your favorites. Now all you need to do is figure out how to play Internet radio in your car.

While there are many ways to use your smartphone as an Internet car radio, here is the method that I have used.

Step #1) I got Mountain Chill playing through my Droid smartphone (See previous post).

Step #2) I purchased and installed this Motorola MotoRokr T505 Bluetooth Speaker Phone which includes an FM transmitter.

Step #3) I turned Bluetooth "on" on my Droid phone and powered up the MotoRokr. With a click of a button on my Droid phone I paired the phone to the Motorokr. On Adroid 2.2, pairing is managed under "Preferences:Wireless & Networks:Bluetooth Settings."

Step #4) I pressed the FM button on the MotoRockr and the MotoRockr searched for and found a quiet FM frequency. It then announced where to tune my FM radio. I pressed play on the xiialive application and I was listening to mountainchill.com.

Step #5) If you enjoy listening to mountainchill in your car, please become a member and help support us.

Next time I got into the car and turned on the Rokr, the pairing took place automatically. I just hit the FM button on the Rokr and tuned to the correct frequency. Now...miles and miles (or km and km) of happy driving.

Done! Happy listening.