Will the Internet Kill Traditional Car Radio?

NY Times ^ | JOHN R. QUAIN | JOHN R. QUAIN

[Taft in '52]

I implore you to listen to all of the greats: George Jones, Hank Williams, Hank Williams Jr, Waylon Jennings, Willie Nelson, Jerry Jeff Walker, Garth Brooks, Bobby Bare, Jimmy Buffett and all of the other people who made good country music.

I would add Vernon Dalhart, Bob Wills & His Texas Playboys, Cliff Bruner & His Texas Wanderers, Jack Guthrie & His Oklahomans, Ted Daffan & His Texans, the Tune Wranglers, Marvin Rainwater, Patsy Montana, and Patsy Cline.

[GreyFriar]

Yes it will probably terminate car radio just like the 8-track player did; the cassette tape player did; and the cd player did.

[ichabod1]

Information becomes distraction... diversion.

[a fool in paradise]

This is why there will ALWAYS be a need for analog broadcasts. Emergency information. Too much distortion when a digital signal is disrupted by horrible weather conditions (like a hurricane).

[stuartcr]

.45ACP?

[Bad~Rodeo]

Any chance?

Naa, fawget it

[Old Teufel Hunden]

So the buggles need to update their song. Internet killed the radio star...

[AzaleaCity5691]

Garth was identifially country. That the songs had rock influences didn’t make them rock songs any more than the country influences in the 70’s made anything the Charlie Daniels Band put out back then country. Garth’s songs had the same structure as country songs had, the same subject matter and his willing to experiment with his music is what the Outlaw movement did in the 70s.

Garth was country. This crap that’s on now isn’t

[a fool in paradise]

Disc jockeys weren't always bad but now they all sound the same and are lame. None of them have any personality anymore...

They generally aren't ALLOWED to have a personality (you get a bogus "air" name and are meant to be replaceable).

They need someone glib for the meet and greet promotions at parks and free movie screenings. But the DJ generally hasn't been able to choose his own playlist on commercial radio since the 1970s (with some of the uproar stretching all the way back to the "payola" scandals of the 1950s and 1960s). Payola is still present in the radio industry, so the present situation of having a programming director is no safeguard. It just results in blah "market tested pre-formated radio" suited to the "crucial" 18-34 year old woman.

[a fool in paradise]

Industry killed the music business.

[xenob]

Pandora only lets me fast forward about 3 times. I hate it!

Well 6 times actually per "station". Which does stink. Here is a good work around... Instead of just putting in your favorite artist also put songs from your favorite artist in as "stations". If you put in the artist plus your favorite 4 songs you can skip 5 x 6 = 30 times. (for example) Also try to use the "thumbs down" on songs you don't like and you'll eventually get a better play list.

[gathersnomoss]

Track One.....fade....
.....ka-chunk.....
Track Two.....

[Hot Tabasco]

I've found with Pandora that I have discovered artists that I have heard the names of before but never heard their music until I started using Pandora.

Same here! I have a small collection of CD's by Latin artists, both vocal and guitar, that I discovered on Pandora. You hear a nice song you like, find the CD on the internet with demo tunes from it, If I like them then I buy it........Kinda like trying on a pair of shoes before you buy them.

In the "old" days you had to buy the album for the song only to find out most of the other songs were just crap.

[mylife]

I Agree.

AM is very robust. I keep an AM portable handy for tornado warnings.

[ctdonath2]

You get what you pay for.

A half dozen ad-driven choices may be free but...

[Taft in '52]

Except for a few classical stations on FM, there's hardly any good music on the radio anymore. When I'm in the car, I listen to AM talk stations or play cassette recordings of music from the 1920's through the early 1960's.

However, if I find myself in the San Joaquin Valley, I always tune to "Kings Radio," KZPO-FM, at 103.3 megacycles, which broadcasts a lot of good standards from the twentieth century.

[discostu]

The hardest part to me about Pandora was teaching it that I don’t like the Beatles. Seems every band I’d use to kick off a station would get the Beatles inserted around track 8 or 9. Eventually I found the “I hate this band” setting... then it started plaguing me with Sting.

[E. Pluribus Unum]

You get what you pay for. A half dozen ad-driven choices may be free but...

But what?

You think Rush is going to broadcast on the Internet for free when he can earn confiscatory profits on the "ad-driven" airwaves?

[Bad~Rodeo]

LMAO~, yeah and you had to shake and blow on the tape to get the dust out

[BigSkyFreeper]

They recommend that you start by choosing a favorite song rather than starting a “station” by artist, because choosing by artist is why you tend to get songs from bands you hate.