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Naa, fawget it
Posted on 05/10/2010 12:47:22 PM PDT by a fool in paradise
...Internet music services like Pandora, Slacker and Last.fm, already popular with computer and smartphone owners, are being tailored by software developers, consumer electronics companies and even automakers to work more seamlessly with car stereo systems...
...These handsets all have free applications that play customized music channels streamed over the Internet using the phone’s 3G wireless data connection. The services are generally free, although smartphone owners typically pay about $30 a month on top of regular voice service for unlimited data usage.
The attraction is that rather than being shackled to the same old hits from local radio stations, listeners can customize the music channel to suit their tastes. Pandora has about 750,000 songs and 40 million listeners...
...During a test drive when I became irritated by a Beyonce song, I simply pushed a “voice” button on the side of the Pioneer display and told the system to “play the Doors.” Within a couple of seconds, the unit began to play songs from the “Soft Parade” album. The sound quality, while not equivalent to a CD, was as good as typical radio reception and better than some satellite radio stations. And when a call came in, the built-in Bluetooth hands-free system automatically muted the music.
I did discover some limitations, however. AT&T’s 3G wireless service is notoriously patchy in New York City, so there were occasional dead spots when the music dropped out as the cellphone searched for a signal...
However, such limitations may soon disappear as automakers integrate streaming Internet services directly into their cars...
Of course, traditional radio broadcasters have heard the drumbeat of mobile apps. They have responded with their own apps, streaming live broadcasts from thousands of stations to handsets and through them, to cars...
(Excerpt) Read more at nytimes.com ...
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.
Yes it will probably terminate car radio just like the 8-track player did; the cassette tape player did; and the cd player did.
Information becomes distraction... diversion.
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).
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Naa, fawget it
So the buggles need to update their song. Internet killed the radio star...
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
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.
Industry killed the music business.
Track One.....fade....
.....ka-chunk.....
Track Two.....
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.
I Agree.
AM is very robust. I keep an AM portable handy for tornado warnings.
You get what you pay for.
A half dozen ad-driven choices may be free but...
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.
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.
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?
LMAO~, yeah and you had to shake and blow on the tape to get the dust out
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.
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