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  1. hrm by B3ryllium · · Score: 4, Interesting · on Stations Can't Play Crippled Music Disks

    I read a recent story on Canada.com about a Vancouver station playing songs from the new Radiohead album that they downloaded from the net ...

    Yay! The return of Pirate Radio!

    And with great software like TuneTracker (at http://www.beosradio.com/ ), it's easier than ever to run a professional-level radio station with a low low budget.

  2. To create a radiostation is as easy as...... by misza · · Score: 1 · on How Would You Start a Radio Station?

    http://www.beosradio.com/tunetracker/

  3. Re:Why Internet Radio? by jejones · · Score: 2 · on Can Internet Radio Survive?
    Why Internet Radio? Because commercial music radio stations are now all mindless crap controlled by what focus groups like and the cookie-cutter schlock that the record companies are pushing for the Ashley market ("The new [insert boy group name] CD is out!" "Oooh, scandalous!"), and because public radio, at least in my area, doesn't always have what I want either. They stick with the safe stuff--not much chance of hearing, say, Harry Partch or Stockhausen or Varese or Machaut or des Prez on the "classical" segments, and if on a jazz show here you hear Ornette Coleman or John Zorn, I'll eat my Opus doll.

    Internet radio is the only way to get something resembling choice nowadays. Let's take Des Moines, where I live as an example: the "Des Moines Radio Group" owns six radio stations; Clear Channel Communications owns five; Two Rivers Broadcasting owns three. That's pretty much all there is in the way of commercial broadcasting--the last good commercial station in Des Moines, KFMG, went under around 1996, replaced by KAZR, a station by and for people who think a guitar is a penis substitute and who proudly display their playlist on their web site: all thirteen songs of it.

    KUNI is the best station around these parts. It's based in eastern Iowa, and all we have here is a low-power translator that's easily overwhelmed by skip in the summer and the far more powerful transmitters of nearby commercial FM stations the rest of the time--most FM radios have the selectivity and capture ratio of a dead crab, which doesn't help. I'm stuck in a basement condo and hence can't get a decent antenna going.

    Internet radio is the only way to get anything decent around here--and as a fine example of that, I'd point everybody at BeOS Radio, which plays a wide variety of music, running on submissions of only original works and original performances of works in the public domain.

  4. Re:BeOS had the classic catch 22 by Dutch_Cap · · Score: 1 · on BeOS For Linux

    "and BeOS didn't have any "killer apps", "

    http://www.beosradio.com/tunetracker/

  5. You could also listen to independent stations by no+reason+to+be+here · · Score: 1 · on Copyright Office Proposes Webcasting Regs

    there are stations that play only music from non-major label sources. you just have to look around for them. i like BeOSRadio myself, but that's 'cause i'm Be biased. :)

  6. Status report by babbage · · Score: 5, Informative · on Be Buyout Looms Closer
    I've been following this pretty closely, as the company behind my pet favorite OS has, at least as far as the conventional wisdom goes, been steadily going down the tubes all year now. Random observations, no particular order:
    • Though people ask for it continually, people in the know, such as _BeOS Bible_ author Scot Hacker, have repeatedly said that an open source version of BeOS will basically never happen. The system depends on licensed code that Be apparently couldn't give away even if they wanted to. I'd like to see this happen as much as everyone else, but don't count on it ever happening.
    • New math department: according to The Register, Be's recent financial reports indicate that revenues are up over 600 percent. Thus proving that 600% of nothing is still, well, nothing.
    • Supposedly, somewhere on beosradio.com, a ready to ship copy of BeOS r6 has been presented to CEO Jean Louis Gasseee. Various interesting takes on this one. Supposedly development on the desktop OS had basically halted, with all effort going into the IA version, so it would seem that there isn't enough code to be worth releasing a new version of the desktop OS. This is a shame, because a couple of useful components -- BONE networking, OpenGL graphics, etc -- were apparently under development before the switch to the IA focus, and it isn't clear if these components were then or are now ready for prime time. It could be a move to just get out one last version in whatever state it may be in, or there could actually be some new developments that haven't been publicized.
    • Discussion at BeGroovy suggests that, among other things, this Palm press release would indicate that they're the likely buyed, while another commenter suggests, supposedly on good authority, that Sony is the likely buyer and they're already feeling out where they would want to go with Be & its technology. Then again, a a followup to that said that, at least as far as releasing BeOS6, he was full of it, and that the only developer working on BONE has been on an extended vacation anyway. Finally, one commenter noted that the final issue of BeDope ["Be's own Onion" --me.] had anticipated all of this months ago. Hrm....
    • Over at BeNews, there was yet another link to the Reg article and a whole lot of discussion, generally going nowhere as these forums are wont to do, throwing out speculation that the buyer -- if there even is one, don't forget that this is still just a rumor -- could be any of Palm (they seem to like that idea; I'm not sure I see it but hey whatever), Gobe (developer of Be software -- seen as unlikely as they probably don't have much more cash than Be does), AOL, Compaq, Sun (now *that* would be a nice Network Computer...), Symbian, QNX (why?), Apple (doubt it), Microsoft (pretty sure that was a joke...) (too bad...), Amiga (ok that was definitely a joke), IBM, Hitachi, Samsung, Nokia, Transmeta, Intel, Red Hat (we're pretty safely into wild speculation territory at this point), SGI (see? completely off the wall, these people have no idea what they're talking about), QSSL (bonkers), DoCoMo (two unprofitable ideas that lose money together!), Wind River (who?), Ericsson, etc. Mostly this is all silliness. Towards the end of the conversation, a commenter notes that over on Yahoo's forums, the rumor has been confirmed (by who?), that the stock price is expected to shoot up (whoa, a whole dollar! golly!), and there will be an after hours announcement. Keep in mind however that, not so long ago, a 15 year old kid had such financial forums in the palm of his hand with his "expert" advice, so take that with the appropriate amount of salt. Still, something to watch for anyway.
    • Meanwhile, *checks* yes, Be's own press page hasn't been updated since May 17. No help there...

    Hopefully all those links work, if not I apologize. I'm just summarizing the various pages that I've skimmed over the course of today. If there's any truth to the Yahoo rumors, there could be confirmation of this as soon as tonight. Though it would be sad to see the company shut down or swallowed whole, a lot of people have seen this coming for a long time, and it would be nice to have some resolution of the situation. BeOS is some great consumer computing technology, and I hope very much that it has a future. Perhaps we're about to find out if that is the case...