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> But who introduces you to new artists, who gives you news and opinion, who provides the bits between the songs... You can listen to pretty much any radio sta
by davej 15y ago
> But who introduces you to new artists, who gives you news and opinion, who provides the bits between the songs...
You can listen to pretty much any radio station (local/national/international) online though.
- andyking 15y agoGood point. I have the fantastic Pure One Flow[1], a radio which looks like any other old-fashioned set, but which picks up local stations on FM, the national and regional stuff over DAB digital, and then connects to wi-fi to receive internet streams from all over the world. It's a brilliant device, and so seamless. Switching from the FM community station two streets away to a broadcast from Seattle takes seconds. It'll also connect to a uPnP server and play your own music collection over the LAN. I prefer a converged solution like this, rather than just picking up live radio online all the time. Listening on FM and DAB saves bandwidth, and a lot of local stations are broadcast in better quality than they're streamed. FM is, to all intents and purposes, lossless. This is the kind of thing 'everything-in-the-cloud' advocates forget. Broadcasting is just so efficient for sending one programme service out to millions of people. It'll never go away. [1]: http://www.pure.com/products/product.asp?Product=VL-61558&Category= http://www.pure.com/products/product.asp?Product=VL-61558...
- icebraining 15y agoYeap. I listen to KRTU all the time, since there aren't any decent Jazz radios around here.