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Well, regardless of the ignorant ranting about the viability of a service such as this, I must say that I find it very cool, and for me, very timely. Last night I heard a track on the local NPR station here in Austin from an artist I had never heard before, Tim O'Brien. Because Lala allowed me to listen to every track on each of the two albums it had from him for free, I was able to make the decision to purchase one of them.

So, while I may not ever use this service exactly as it was intended, for renting songs, I will come back and listen to albums I may be interested in and possibly purchase them through the service.

They're using University (state) owned equipment, bandwidth, etc.. There are rules about how they can use it. Making money is not allowed, unless they are set up as an "Auxiliary Enterprise" (as with the University's public radio station, KUT). That requires all sorts of funny stuff, like business plans, auditing and picking up the tab for their operation costs (e.g. KUT hosts their site and streams from a private ISP). I wonder if this status has been obtained.

I'm blessed to live in Austin, where there is much great radio. I don't get a chance to listen to it as much as I want to. So, yeah, I'd get one of these things. I'd set the thing up to record Blue Monday, Left of the Dial, Eklektikos, and all the rest of the great radio shows that I miss every week.

If you have any stations with really great DJs, you'd want to record their shows just for posterity.

I dunno about the $70, though. I think $45 is a better price break.

I'm blessed to live in Austin, where there is much great radio. I don't get a chance to listen to it as much as I want to. So, yeah, I'd get one of these things. I'd set the thing up to record Blue Monday, Left of the Dial, Eklektikos, and all the rest of the great radio shows that I miss every week.

If you have any stations with really great DJs, you'd want to record their shows just for posterity.

I dunno about the $70, though. I think $45 is a better price break.

I'm blessed to live in Austin, where there is much great radio. I don't get a chance to listen to it as much as I want to. So, yeah, I'd get one of these things. I'd set the thing up to record Blue Monday, Left of the Dial, Eklektikos, and all the rest of the great radio shows that I miss every week.

If you have any stations with really great DJs, you'd want to record their shows just for posterity.

I dunno about the $70, though. I think $45 is a better price break.

I really need ideas for a FM -> mp3 recording scheme (hw/sw) for Linux. There is stuff out there, and I can always write cron jobs, etc. But, often, I need to record more than one show at a time.

(Example: Sunday nights KUT runs the World Music Show at the same time that KGSR runs the The Sunday Night News -- and I usually have time to listen to neither. Not to mention that KOOP is always running shows that conflict with other shows that I want to listen to, but have no time for).

So, what do I need to do to be able to record more than one FM radio station to mp3 at the same time? Any ideas?