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  1. Re:boundaries by smellsofbikes · · Score: 1 · on Net Radio Appeal On Royalties Rejected

    http://www.radio1190.org/ is the radio station for CU Boulder: that's what I listen to most. Most of their stuff isn't great, or even good, but they'll play three days without me ever having heard *any* of it before and maybe 5% of it is really good stuff that I end up chasing down and buying, so it's kind of do-it-yourself filtering.
    http://www.kexp.org/home.asp?noflash=true is a Seattle-based station I also listen to a lot. It's higher-quality but/and more mainstream than 1190.
    As for the iceland, the link I use is on a machine at home, so this is the best I can dig up: http://www.penguinradio.com/regional/europe/icelan d/ -- the 'ethnic' stuff is *interesting*. I tend to listen to a more hiphop/r&b station but I can't find a link to it. If I remember tonight, I'll reply to this.

  2. Re:I'm not convinced about internet radio... by drinkypoo · · Score: 4, Informative · on Internet Radio Failing to Find Support?

    Man, slashdotters can be so fucking annoying sometimes...

    1. Another defunct one: Turtle Beach Audiotron
    2. Yet Another: KiSS DP-500
    3. This one's actually for sale on Amazon: Roku Soundbridge M1000
    4. Also for sale: Slim Devices Squeezebox
    5. On the high ($2000) end, Denon AVR-4036 Receiver has streaming (among many other things.)
    6. And the winner of our "strangest item": sermonaudio.com internet radio. Though I suspect you'd have to hack it to get it to play anything other than their content :)
    7. Oh, I guess you don't have to hack it, you can just buy the un-sermonized version as Penguin Radio.
    8. D-Link has a DVD player with internet streaming radio called DSM-320RD Medialounge. It's even wireless. There's also a HD version, the DSM-520.
    9. Even Philips has a series called Boombox.

    I'm sorry my initial example was poor. I just grabbed the first link and didn't look at it much. Nonetheless, there are umpteen fucking examples of streaming internet radio devices. Many of them are available on the shelf, even at places like Circuit Shitty. And I've seen several at Fry's, come to think of it.

  3. Radio is a broken record.... by PenguinRadio · · Score: 1 · on Traditional Radio Endangered By New Tech

    Over and over and over again. The same thing. I went away for six months to Asia and when I came back it was 8 days before I heard a 'new' song on the radio, and even that was crap. It's like an ipod with only 30 songs.

    I helped build the device at PenguinRadio for just this reason--I wanted to hear something new. In just a month of listening to stations from overseas, I've bought seven albums from groups I've never heard of over here. Go figure.

  4. Re:Police scanners? by PenguinRadio · · Score: 1 · on Further Updates On Terrorist Attack

    There was one earlier. I made a link at http://www.penguinradio.com/nontraditional/scanner s/

  5. Internet radio by po_boy · · Score: 2 · on Your Holiday Present Wish List
    I'm hoping for something from the list of (mostly vapourware) appliances that are pretty much stereos that can take input from streaming audio (like realaudio and its ilk). Some of them have other (primary) functions like playing MP3 CDs or "normal" CDs.

    the list includes:


    I imagine that one big feature that I'd like is that I'd like it to exist in time for the holidays. Other than that, I just want something that takes ethernet in one side, sits in my kitchen, bathroom, study, garage, or wherever, and dumps music out.
    I believe that most of these will fall in the "under $300" category, unless I have to use my iMac for this purpose.
  6. MS told us a LINUX port is "soon" by PenguinRadio · · Score: 2 · on RealNetworks Licenses MS Windows Media Codec

    At least that's what they've been telling us at recent trade shows and in conversations we've had with them. They said we can expect, at the very least, a UNIX version about the same time that a Mac version of the most recent player is released (I think player 6? only runs on Windows, not Mac--can't remember for sure).

    I have seen other solutions, however. At the CES show in Vegas, I saw a Cirrus Maverick chip on a board with another small chip that handled the Windows Media decoding. Cirrus released the chip for Windows, but a 3rd party vendor modified it for LINUX. One way around the LINUX problem I guess.

    Nonetheless, I'm still going to support both formats in my Linuxradio.

  7. PenguinRadio will do this from space by PenguinRadio · · Score: 3 · on Linux-based Internet Radio Appliance
    PenguinRadio is working on a similar device (also LINUX based), along with a car and portable appliance that works with a new constellation of satellites from Ellipso that provide broadband access.

    It's a very interesting time to be involved in Internet Radio