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RadioShark Is Vaporware No More
DLWormwood writes "Well, after acquiring a reputation for being 'vaporware of the year' from Wired News, MacCentral is reporting that Griffin Technology's radioSHARK is finally shipping. Now maybe I can finally get some sleep while Dr. Demento is recorded by my Mac late at night..."
http://64.233.179.104/search?sourceid=navclient&ie =UTF-8&q=cache%3Ahttp%3A%2F%2Fwww.griffintechnolog y.com%2Fproducts%2Fradioshark%2F
sarchasm: The gulf between the author of sarcastic wit and the person who doesn't get it.
Simply put, time-shift recording allows you to pause a live broadcast and return to it moments -- or even hours -- later and continue exactly where you left off. (it's a lot like a popular TV accessory whose name we can't say...but rhymes with Steve-O.)
sarchasm: The gulf between the author of sarcastic wit and the person who doesn't get it.
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Maybe?
-Randy
When will people learn on Slashdot to use something like http://www.scs.cs.nyu.edu/coral/ to prevent from /. sites. Come on folks. Common sense.
The radio airwaves will never be safe again. The RadioSHARK adds an AM/FM radio to any Mac or PC -- but that's just the beginning.
The RadioSHARK can record any AM or FM radio broadcast in real time. You can also program it to record a scheduled show, or to 'pause' live radio so you can return right where you left off moments or even hours before (See 'What is Time-Shift Recording?' sidebar above).
RadioSHARK includes a full-featured application that controls all radio and recording functions. Favorite station presets can be set with the click of a mouse, and new stations can be scanned and tuned with ease. The application is also where you program Time-Shift Recording, either to take a break without missing any of a show or to record your favorite broadcast to listen to later.
The RadioSHARK connects to and is powered by USB. The fin-shaped device acts as an antenna and can be positioned for best reception and recording. Any recorded broadcast can be transferred to an iPod or any other AIFF-compatible digital music player to replay on the go.
RadioSHARK gives you control of how and when you listen to your favorite radio shows. Dive in today and take a bite out of the airwaves!
Always value the individual over the system. --Bruce Lee "I don't need a Sig - I have a custom 191" - me
I would rather have one of these opensource firmware mp3 player w/ radio reception / transmission
radioSHARK
AM/FM Radio with Time Shift Recording
[ Now Shipping ]
The radio airwaves will never be safe again. The RadioSHARK adds an AM/FM radio to any Mac or PC -- but that's just the beginning.
The RadioSHARK can record any AM or FM radio broadcast in real time. You can also program it to record a scheduled show, or to 'pause' live radio so you can return right where you left off moments or even hours before (See 'What is Time-Shift Recording?' sidebar above).
RadioSHARK includes a full-featured application that controls all radio and recording functions. Favorite station presets can be set with the click of a mouse, and new stations can be scanned and tuned with ease. The application is also where you program Time-Shift Recording, either to take a break without missing any of a show or to record your favorite broadcast to listen to later.
The RadioSHARK connects to and is powered by USB. The fin-shaped device acts as an antenna and can be positioned for best reception and recording. Any recorded broadcast can be transferred to an iPod or any other AIFF-compatible digital music player to replay on the go.
RadioSHARK gives you control of how and when you listen to your favorite radio shows. Dive in today and take a bite out of the airwaves!
What is Time-Shift Recording?
Simply put, time-shift recording allows you to pause a live broadcast and return to it moments -- or even hours -- later and continue exactly where you left off. (it's a lot like a popular TV accessory whose name we can't say...but rhymes with Steve-O.)
radioSHARK also allows you to start and stop recording at any time while you are listening, and lets you schedule recording so you won't miss your favorite radio show.
$69.99
Mostly historical reasons, this product had most of it's buzz a year or so ago in the Mac blogspace. Also, the company has mostly focused it's marketing and products to Macs in particular. I've added a comment with some more info about the device below, since the radioSHARK page got /.'ed quickly.
The only other category that this would have fit under was the general "Index," but my submission seemed too much like an ad to me to warrant the front page. (Yes, I've been hanging around kuro5hin too long...)
Those who complain about affect & effect on
Are there Linux drivers? If not, is the company willing to provide a spec for the USB commands to control it, so that a Linux driver can be written?
I'd say the interesting part is that this thing is available for a Mac unlike your solution.
This guy is way out there
Well, since your username is introverted, perhaps you really don't know.
But there has long been an open source project called StreamRipper that does this, and not only does it, but does it better than the various --and there are already quite a few-- commercial products that do the same.
If you have the bandwidth, and hard drive space you can easily run a dozen or more consoles simultaneously all ripping 128Kbps and higher MP3 in near real time around the clock and with ID3 tags. Interestingly though, some of the tags on a certain small but noteable minority of the stations are wrong which makes you think they problably downloaded their "record stacks" off P2P. But since many of them aren't even in the US, it's a complex issue. Ahhh, complexity. That's one thing the RIAA can thank Bush for --making it all very complicated. Dear dear dear.
http://www.yes.net has information from a lot of major markets. If you know the general time and station you can often find the song/artist there.
Might not apply to college radio though, unless it was a big college station.
In many countries (if not all) using a VCR to copy TV programmes off-air is only permitted for the purposes of 'time-shifting', i.e. to watch a programme *once* at a later time. It is clear in this case that the copy is a temporary one that enables the broadcast time to be shifted to a time which is more convenient for viewing.
Of couse, current technology permits 'simultaneous' recording and play-back so that one can time-shift by a period much less than the duration of the broadcast - the phrase has thus taken on a new dimension.
is time shifting the new buzzword for recording?
No, it's the new word for recording then watching at a later time.
I believe that the term is refering to the ability to be able to record in realtime, pause, and resume at any point up to "now". Thats slightly different than recording and watching at a later time.
How about because it does AM as well as FM? There aren't that many tuner cards that do AM.
I'll bet it's usb-audio + usb-hid device. It better damn well work on a PC or Mac. Reason being I wouldn't put it past Griffin to develop or pay for the development of a whole usb protocol and drivers that is hardened for precise timing required for realtime audio... the pre-existing standard and chipsets are the way to go... just have to write the application software that makes it easy to use. They'd use "buttons-n-dials" from usb-hid standard to control the tuner.
... a whole shitload of other possibilities...
Side note: Why do Mac people insist on calling it "AIFF" when they mean PCM? AIFF is a container format, like WAV, but it only comes up when they mean PCM, which is exactly what the radio transmits to the computer (usb-audio standard, after all).
I hear "WAV" format and cringe as well.
Did you know you can have a WAV file that contains AAC encoded data, among other things? Yeah, I bet you didn't.
0x0000 WAVE_FORMAT_UNKNOWN
0x0001 WAVE_FORMAT_PCM Microsoft Corporation (the common one)
0x0180 WAVE_FORMAT_MPEG2AAC Fraunhofer IIS
Yeah... there you go.
THIS THING CAN TURN ON A DIME, MACROSSZERO STYLE ALSO FUCK BETA, ~NYORON
A couple of easy steps if you have a linux server.
1. Download and install brag. It's available with RPMs for easy installation.
2. Add this cron entry: brag -s news-server -g alt.binaries.howard-stern -a '*CF*'
3. For convenience's sake, add this as a cleanup cron entry: mv
4. Oh, and this other cleanup cron entry- rm -rf
Schedule those around 3:30 your time, and have the latter entries run a couple hours later. You should be good to go with Stern each day on your iPod without commercials.
$5 / month hosted VPS on linux = awesome!