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Sony takes on iPod Shuffle
Ben writes "It seems that Sony has decided to take on Apple with a low cost flash based player that will go up against the Shuffle.
Pocket-lint has
the low down on some of the stats,
as does the BBC and Engadget." The major improvement in my eyes is that some models have an FM tuner.
Stay below 92.5MHz on your FM dial and you're usually a lot better off.
.mp3 or .ogg (station formats and history) I have really grown to like "After Hours" between 20:00 and 23:00Eastern on weekdays. Saturday evening is pretty decent hip hop mix. You're in for a surprise if you try Friday evenings or Sunday mornings :) Some PSA's.
.wma or Real. Mostly Jazz. SUPPORT
.mp3, .ogg, or Real to one of the first radio station in the world to rebroadcast over the net. Eclectic and chill.
.mp3, .ogg, .wma, Quicktime, or Real. (please send them a few bucks if you stream their music!) All classical all the time. (Just disconnect if you're not listening!) SUPPORT
.mp3, .wma, or Real (from iBiblio) to a well funded public radio station. You get Terry Gross, BBC and Day to Day. "Back Porch Music" on weekend evenings (great bluegrass). Program Schedule SUPPORT
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You'll often find NPR stations and college radio, often almost completely void of annoying DJs and commercial interruptions.
In the triangle we've got:
88.1 -- WKNC @ NC State Listen in high-quality
88.9 -- WSHA @ Shaw University Listen in
89.3 -- WXYC @ Duke Listen in
89.7 -- TheClassicalStation, WCPE Listen in
91.5 -- WUNC in Chapel Hill Listen in
I know everybody doen't have such a wonderful selection at the bottom of the dial as the Triangle, but check it out locally - you may discover something... (tune manually rather than with "seek" or "scan" as these will often miss low powered - sometimes high quality - listening opportunities). If you don't have a FM tuner onboard your music player, you can either pipe in audio from a regular radio to your soundcard for automatic recordings and conversion to your favorite format or use the FM tuner that's built in to many TV capture cards and do the same.
http://gary.burd.info/2003/07/time-shifting-fm-ra
http://osl.iu.edu/~tveldhui/radio/
http://jaeger.blogmatrix.com/radio/
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