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  1. Re:Will someone please... by uhlume · · Score: 1 · on Internet Explorer 8 Beta Features Revealed

    Again, as noted further on in this thread: you might want to raise that complaint with Microformats.org in general, and David Janes in particular. Janes invented the hAtom microformat, around which WebSlices is based.

    To be honest, though, I don't see how hAtom muddies the feed-standard waters any more than they were previously. It's intended to address a different problem space than RSS and Atom, so it's not really competing with either. The RSS/Atom issue, by contrast, arose from the introduction of competing standards to address the very same problem.

    A more interesting issue is raised by Janes himself in the blog post linked above, namely Microsoft's decision to implement only a subset of hAtom as WebSlices, with their own top-level element to distinguish WebSlices from general hAtom feeds. I hope he makes his suggestions known to Microsoft, on this count, and I hope they listen.

  2. Thumbs down on radio above 92.5MHz by QuietRiot · · Score: 0, Offtopic · on Sony takes on iPod Shuffle

    Stay below 92.5MHz on your FM dial and you're usually a lot better off.

    You'll often find NPR stations and college radio, often almost completely void of annoying DJs and commercial interruptions.

    In the triangle we've got:

    88.1 -- WKNC @ NC State Listen in high-quality .mp3 or .ogg (station formats and history) I have really grown to like "After Hours" between 20:00 and 23:00Eastern on weekdays. Saturday evening is pretty decent hip hop mix. You're in for a surprise if you try Friday evenings or Sunday mornings :) Some PSA's.

    88.9 -- WSHA @ Shaw University Listen in .wma or Real. Mostly Jazz. SUPPORT

    89.3 -- WXYC @ Duke Listen in .mp3, .ogg, or Real to one of the first radio station in the world to rebroadcast over the net. Eclectic and chill.

    89.7 -- TheClassicalStation, WCPE Listen in .mp3, .ogg, .wma, Quicktime, or Real. (please send them a few bucks if you stream their music!) All classical all the time. (Just disconnect if you're not listening!) SUPPORT

    91.5 -- WUNC in Chapel Hill Listen in .mp3, .wma, or Real (from iBiblio) to a well funded public radio station. You get Terry Gross, BBC and Day to Day. "Back Porch Music" on weekend evenings (great bluegrass). Program Schedule SUPPORT

    I know everybody doen't have such a wonderful selection at the bottom of the dial as the Triangle, but check it out locally - you may discover something... (tune manually rather than with "seek" or "scan" as these will often miss low powered - sometimes high quality - listening opportunities). If you don't have a FM tuner onboard your music player, you can either pipe in audio from a regular radio to your soundcard for automatic recordings and conversion to your favorite format or use the FM tuner that's built in to many TV capture cards and do the same.

    http://gary.burd.info/2003/07/time-shifting-fm-rad io.html
    http://osl.iu.edu/~tveldhui/radio/
    http://jaeger.blogmatrix.com/radio/
    http://ask.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=05/01/05/15 40231&tid=141&tid=185&tid=95&tid=4

  3. BlogMatrix Sparks records Real and WMP formats by blogmatrix · · Score: 2, Interesting · on Realtime Audio Conversion And Serving

    I've been working on BlogMatrix Sparks! for the last few months and it's definitely what this person is looking for:

    • it's open source
    • can record most -- every one I've seen -- streaming radio formats (including Windows Media and Real Player)
    • it runs as a native (GUI) app on Windows and Mac and (in the works) as a Python app on Linux
    • it converts recorded programs into MP3s
    • MP3s are optionally treated as Podcasts and stored in iTunes or Windows Media Player
    • there's a searchable directory of thousands of radio stations. This is really important as many radio stations try to hide their recording URIs
    • radio can be recorded now, once only at a particular time or on a repeating basis (i.e. weekly)
    • programming information is encoded into URI fragments to allow programming to be shared amongst multiple users
    • here's some (old) screenshots

    Credit where credit is due: this is an integration project on top of MPlayer and Lame. Ongoing project news is in our blog.

    - David Janes

  4. BlogMatrix Sparks records Real and WMP formats by blogmatrix · · Score: 2, Interesting · on Realtime Audio Conversion And Serving

    I've been working on BlogMatrix Sparks! for the last few months and it's definitely what this person is looking for:

    • it's open source
    • can record most -- every one I've seen -- streaming radio formats (including Windows Media and Real Player)
    • it runs as a native (GUI) app on Windows and Mac and (in the works) as a Python app on Linux
    • it converts recorded programs into MP3s
    • MP3s are optionally treated as Podcasts and stored in iTunes or Windows Media Player
    • there's a searchable directory of thousands of radio stations. This is really important as many radio stations try to hide their recording URIs
    • radio can be recorded now, once only at a particular time or on a repeating basis (i.e. weekly)
    • programming information is encoded into URI fragments to allow programming to be shared amongst multiple users
    • here's some (old) screenshots

    Credit where credit is due: this is an integration project on top of MPlayer and Lame. Ongoing project news is in our blog.

    - David Janes

  5. BlogMatrix Sparks records Real and WMP formats by blogmatrix · · Score: 2, Interesting · on Realtime Audio Conversion And Serving

    I've been working on BlogMatrix Sparks! for the last few months and it's definitely what this person is looking for:

    • it's open source
    • can record most -- every one I've seen -- streaming radio formats (including Windows Media and Real Player)
    • it runs as a native (GUI) app on Windows and Mac and (in the works) as a Python app on Linux
    • it converts recorded programs into MP3s
    • MP3s are optionally treated as Podcasts and stored in iTunes or Windows Media Player
    • there's a searchable directory of thousands of radio stations. This is really important as many radio stations try to hide their recording URIs
    • radio can be recorded now, once only at a particular time or on a repeating basis (i.e. weekly)
    • programming information is encoded into URI fragments to allow programming to be shared amongst multiple users
    • here's some (old) screenshots

    Credit where credit is due: this is an integration project on top of MPlayer and Lame. Ongoing project news is in our blog.

    - David Janes

  6. Blogmatrix Sparks by ratpack91 · · Score: 2, Informative · on Realtime Audio Conversion And Serving
    Just started using it this week. Records stations to MP3 using a schedule. Pretty good and has loads of stations preset like all the bbc ones by show.
    "Use BlogMatrix Sparks! to record streaming Internet radio feeds and download podcasts and store them in your media player (iTunes or Windows Media Player). Sparks! uses an interactive directory of radio stations and podcasts to help you find content. Sparks! runs on Windows, Macintosh OS 10.3 and Linux and is open source software."

    http://sparks.blogmatrix.com/