Posted on 12/12/2012 1:56:12 PM PST by killermosquito
I'm interested in buying a Nexus 7 or some other tablet. Listning to radio on web is ok but I want to listen to radio over the air but through the tablet. Is there a USB stick with AM/FM radio?
Try “I Heart Radio” or “TuneIn Radio.”
They operate over the internet; no USB device necessary.
I use them at home, and have an Android app for listening in the car.
For music, I like “Pandora Radio.” It’s fantastic.
You can connect it to the audio-in of your computer if it's that important to you, but I'd just use the earbuds myself.
Tablets and USB sticks are digital.
Over the air radio is analog and needs a receiver.
Buy a small AM/FM radio with earplugs. The tablet is not needed.
I use Tunein Radio all the time on my iPhone and iPad. With a Bluetooth ear piece. I walk around the office listening to the radio and no one has a clue.
That’s only FM. I don’t see how you could have a decent antenna inside something as small as a USB stick. I have a small Sangean pocket radio, an you don’t get good reception unless you have the earphones or supplied external antenna plugged in.
It doesn’t work in the USA, either. Didn’t read it before I linked it.
just down load the I heart radio app and you are good to go
For hand-helds, I think an FM receiver was offered in SD format for Palms about 10 years ago.
You're better off with a separate radio, or through the internet, as others have previously suggested.
Does your tablet have a media player?
If not, download TuneIn, Slacker, WinAmp, VLC or some other app that will work with streaming radio. I would try VLC first.
http://www.videolan.org/vlc/download-android.html
Go to —> http://www.thestreamcenter.com/ - to find radio stations you can listen to online.
On your typical computer or from the radio station’s website, the streaming radio is often Flashed based, so they can feed you advertisements. This website will give you some alternate streams that don’t require flash and are ad free.
There are several USB TV/FM tuners on the market (I have one myself) but I don’t think there are any AM tuners out there.
“I Heart Radio” works really well over any device.
The easiest is to stream audio from a 3rd party Web site. But if you are concerned about privacy - or about fees, which some stations charge - then you can run your own Webcast station, just for you and your family. It can be playing MP3s in a preset order, or you can command it to play certain playlists, etc. Look at Icecast if you are interested, but that's not the only known solution. There are probably ten different server solutions, some commercial and some open-source. It takes a bit of setup, but once done it will work fine, and it can stream recordings or live air, TV, police/fire scanner, or whatever else you want at the moment.
Or, as many people already suggested, buy a $5 pocket radio. There is no need to use expensive, heavy and power-hungry tablet to listen to the radio.
Wow. I didn’t even know such a product existed. I’ve been trying to find an FM transmitter that I can plug in to my computer at home and transmit audio from website such as Pandora and AOL radio to an FM frequency on a large stereo system in my living room. Most FM transmitters I’m finding are only designed to be used in conjunction with MP3 players in car stereos for some reason.
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