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Listen to Internet Radio over Wifi

Posted by michael on from the doing-things-the-hard-way dept.

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.

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  1. Hell, I use it for video by Space+cowboy · · Score: 5, Interesting

    I support a football (soccer if you prefer :-) team that has a webcast of all the home matches. Since very few matches are televised per season, it's a good second-best, especially because I've got a nice fast broadband connection. Just take the portable into the front room, link it up to the projector using the VGA input, and watch the match with the video stream being served using WiFi from the router at the back of the house :-)

    The quality isn't as good as broadcast TV (!) but it's a damn sight better than radio :-)

    Simon

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  2. It's global... by TamMan2000 · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Yes, but now you can get stations from all around the world where ever you are...

    I live in upstate new york, I am in a college town, so there is some decent radio, but when I want news from around the world, I want radio from around the world...

    I could read a lot of it on the internet, but that is hard to do while washing dished/making dinner/working on my bicycle...

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  3. Sorta Related by jchawk · · Score: 4, Interesting

    I have a treo 600 through sprint, with their unlimited data service package. With the latest pocket tunes software I can stream audio from the internet where ever I am. Generally if there is cell service, I can get a data connection. I know it's not traditional WIFI, but it's still really neat! :-)

  4. A lot of people are making jokes about this by rsborg · · Score: 4, Interesting
    ...but it's not so funny, it's very cool. Local radio (NPR and some talk radio excepted) is very stale, and does not contain the music I want to hear. I listen to techno/downtempo/ambient, and my wife likes French radio.. no way we can reliably get that on local radio.

    I want to listen to what I want, when I want. and I want diversity. This company definitely has an interested customer in me.

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  5. squeezebox by ignavusincognitus · · Score: 5, Interesting

    A SqueezeBox can do that, no need for a WinXP box. The latest server software even has a module to let you browse ShoutCast with your remote.