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Portable Internet Radio to take on XM?

Posted by Zonk on from the stranger-things-have-happened dept.

TheDude writes "A friend who works for a design company attended the Australian EDN awards last night and was impressed with one of the winners, in the wireless category, which was won by Grey Innovation for their Infusion device . It's a Linux based portable internet radio that streams Internet Radio over WiFi. Is this the future of Radio? Given the big push by XM and Sirus , the potential of Podcasting and now the "inFusion", in which direction is mass-audio-broadcast heading? And why isn't anyone really pushing Digital Audio Broadcast (DAB), like they have in the UK ?"

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  1. The best Radio is FREE. by tetrahedrassface · · Score: 4, Interesting
    The best internet radio is the free kind. Somewhere along the way we lost the true value of art. It supposed to be shared even if you suck. Go ahead and share it! Myabe you can influence someone somewhere. Period. The best music will most likely never happen due to greed. We all have to eat.

    http://209.235.176.54/reverse_evolutionblues.mp3

    Best heard under Heavy surround sound because it hasn't been mixed yet.lol

    However I live by words, and YES i do suck. But here is my take. And its free for you. You need surround sound and good stereo to appreciate it, but i give it to you. That way its still mine. :P

    And yes I wrote this and performed all the instruments. So its mine to give.

  2. Re:No, it's not by Aeiri · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Areas outside the US... Who knows. They listen to really weird shit music anyway.

    What and Jessica Simpson, Britney Spears, Nelly, 50 cent, etc are good music?

    I'm an American, and I happen to think the best music comes from Europe. The worst from US.

  3. May You Live in Interesting Times indeed by imperious_rex · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Given yesterday's Slashdot item about radio, the next few years will be an interesting time indeed for the world of radio. Under dual assault from satellite and online, terrestial radio is truly going to take a beating, and it will take more than upgrading to HD radio and offering localalized programming and news bites to staunch the bleeding. If terrestrial radio is to survive, it will have to exercise significantly greater imagination and (pardon the word) innovation than what most radio execs have exhibited so far...

  4. Re:XM is quite horrendous by jejones · · Score: 5, Insightful

    You're really lucky if you manage to catch a top 40 song (in the hard rock genre) on any of their stations

    You're persuading me to give XM serious thought. Avoiding Top 40 isn't a bug, it's a feature.

    For example...the problem with "oldies" stations is that they're not oldies stations; they're oldies Top 40 stations. The only thing that keeps them from being as wretched as modern Top N stations is that they select their material from a time when radio was less specialized, so that they achieve some variety despite themselves. Even so, you'll never hear Quicksilver Messenger Service, or Pearls Before Swine on most oldies stations. Heck, you won't even hear the Nazz's "Hello, It's Me" as opposed to Todd Rundgren's solo version.