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Listen to Internet Radio over Wifi
wildumut writes "There's an article on the Register about new WIFI radio tuners, worth a look. 'Wi-Fi is not only freeing up notebook and PDA users to connect to the Internet from anywhere in the home, it's also making Internet radio work (almost) like the real thing.'" The company website has some more information, but these aren't available for sale yet.
The knob is for volume control... you get to preset your 10 favorite streams, the other few thousand you'll have to type in or at least click on a hyperlink at a PC...
Read the site: it has 6 buttons for your favorite stations. :)
Beside that, you do not use a Knob for internet radio, but URLs
Keep in mind that the FCC is owned by Clear Channel. The penalties will be severe, I'm sure.
The HomePod from MacSense is already available, and best of all, it will stream music from any iTunes shares it finds.
Alas, shortwave is dead, or at least moribund. The BBC World Service stopped transmitting to North America a couple of years ago, arguing, in part, that their Internet streams served the NA market well enough.
I just got through building a really nice home media system with WiFi.
The centerpiece is a PC running SageTV. It uses a hardware mpeg encoder to capture video from my digital cable box and save it on a 250 GB hard drive. Encoding at the "DVD Standard Play" quality uses about 3 GB per hour of video and the quality is definitely acceptable. Also stored on the monster hard drive is my entire CD collection ripped to very high bitrate MP3. The hardware media card also includes a built-in radio tuner. The machine has a DVD burner in it as well, and SageTV glues it all together.
Now, the really cool part of it is, I can access the mpeg video files and MP3s over my home network. With an mpeg video codec, I can use any of a variety of players to play my recorded television anywhere in my house on a laptop. SageTV also offers a separate piece of client software that allows you to remote-control the PVR from any networked computer and play any of its recorded media -- so, if I'm in the garage with my laptop, I can call up the current TV guide and select a program to record right there without having to directly interact with the media PC.
The only thing I haven't messed around with yet is the radio part of it. Mainly, because radio sucks, and because I do have access to all of the music-only channels through the cable TV (and therefore the PVR) anyway.
Fun with Anagarams! LADS HOST, SHALT DOS. HAS DOLTS. AD SLOTHS, HATS SOLD. ASS HO, LTD.
These things all look really cool to me, I have been eyeing up Dlink's new media player, but I'm worried about it's reliance on windows. Sure soudns good though... http://www.dlink.com/products/?pid=318
--> Streaming in Shoutcast/or Whatever --> Headphones out to Sterio input on Sterio.
Simple, effective... can even add bookmarks.