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Why not use FM radio? https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B002HMH0ZC https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B002HMH0ZC

nabaraz 6y ago
No on-demand songs though! I wonder if it is possible to broadcast every songs out there and have a software switch frequencies as required.
- deleted 6y ago
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- jfk13 6y ago
  I don't think you realise just how many songs are "out there". And switching to a given song's frequency wouldn't be the same as being able to listen on-demand: you'd rarely happen to catch it such that you start listening at the beginning.
- aspenmayer 6y ago
  OnRad.io[1][2] lets you search for any song on their sources for internet radio and if it’s available, you can stream it from any of the matches. It’s the only thing I’ve seen which does this in real-time. I wish you could add arbitrary streams to search from. I think Winamp could do this back in the day, but not sure of other app based solutions for this. Kind of the reverse of what you may mean by broadcasting every song, but if the songs are already being broadcast, tune in. [1] http://www.onrad.io http://www.onrad.io [2] https://rainnews.com/onrad-io-launches-with-searchable-shareable-radio-streams/ https://rainnews.com/onrad-io-launches-with-searchable-share...
randlet 6y ago
I don't know about where you live, but where I am in Canada the majority of FM radio is as bad or worse than cable television; constant ads, stale "radio friendly" music and DJ's with inane banter and making bad jokes. It's painful to listen to.
- noarchy 6y ago
  And don't forget the mandated CanCon that radio stations have to play.
- reaperducer 6y ago
  I don't know about where you live It really depends more on what you're into than where you live since so many radio stations stream. There are plenty of great radio stations out there still, but on the internet people think it's cool to pretend the stations don't exist and burrow themselves deeper into a more and more Balkanized niche echo chamber, never exploring anything outside of their comfort zone. FMs I've listened to this week: WXRT/Chicago, KCSN/Northridge, KING-FM-HD2/Seattle, KTNN-FM/Tohatchi, K279BO/Palm Springs. If you want to hear the same old thing over and over, by all means wallow in Spotify or whatever you loaded onto your iPod a decade ago. I do that sometimes, too. It's comforting. However, there's a world of good and interesting music out there. You just have to make an effort beyond tapping the play button and letting a computer decide what you hear.
  - krallja 6y ago
    The AM/FM headset linked in your grandparent does not support streaming.
  - randlet 6y ago
    Of course there are some great stations to stream; there is infinite musical content online that I use to great advantage. But we're specifically talking about FM/AM broadcast and the chaff heartily outweighs the wheat in most locations.
    - reaperducer 6y ago
      I understand that, and all of the stations I listed are broadcast FM, so my point stands: There are plenty of great FM stations, if you bother to look for them instead of wallowing in your already-selected music. Just because they also stream doesn't mean it's not useful to know about.

No on-demand songs though! I wonder if it is possible to broadcast every songs out there and have a software switch frequencies as required.

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jfk13 6y ago
I don't think you realise just how many songs are "out there". And switching to a given song's frequency wouldn't be the same as being able to listen on-demand: you'd rarely happen to catch it such that you start listening at the beginning.
aspenmayer 6y ago
OnRad.io[1][2] lets you search for any song on their sources for internet radio and if it’s available, you can stream it from any of the matches. It’s the only thing I’ve seen which does this in real-time. I wish you could add arbitrary streams to search from. I think Winamp could do this back in the day, but not sure of other app based solutions for this. Kind of the reverse of what you may mean by broadcasting every song, but if the songs are already being broadcast, tune in. [1] http://www.onrad.io http://www.onrad.io [2] https://rainnews.com/onrad-io-launches-with-searchable-shareable-radio-streams/ https://rainnews.com/onrad-io-launches-with-searchable-share...

randlet 6y ago

I don't know about where you live, but where I am in Canada the majority of FM radio is as bad or worse than cable television; constant ads, stale "radio friendly" music and DJ's with inane banter and making bad jokes. It's painful to listen to.

noarchy 6y ago
And don't forget the mandated CanCon that radio stations have to play.
reaperducer 6y ago
I don't know about where you live It really depends more on what you're into than where you live since so many radio stations stream. There are plenty of great radio stations out there still, but on the internet people think it's cool to pretend the stations don't exist and burrow themselves deeper into a more and more Balkanized niche echo chamber, never exploring anything outside of their comfort zone. FMs I've listened to this week: WXRT/Chicago, KCSN/Northridge, KING-FM-HD2/Seattle, KTNN-FM/Tohatchi, K279BO/Palm Springs. If you want to hear the same old thing over and over, by all means wallow in Spotify or whatever you loaded onto your iPod a decade ago. I do that sometimes, too. It's comforting. However, there's a world of good and interesting music out there. You just have to make an effort beyond tapping the play button and letting a computer decide what you hear.
- krallja 6y ago
  The AM/FM headset linked in your grandparent does not support streaming.
- randlet 6y ago
  Of course there are some great stations to stream; there is infinite musical content online that I use to great advantage. But we're specifically talking about FM/AM broadcast and the chaff heartily outweighs the wheat in most locations.
  - reaperducer 6y ago
    I understand that, and all of the stations I listed are broadcast FM, so my point stands: There are plenty of great FM stations, if you bother to look for them instead of wallowing in your already-selected music. Just because they also stream doesn't mean it's not useful to know about.