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iPod to Podcast Sirius Satellite Radio Content?
Kelly McNeill writes "The last time Apple and Sirius met up to discuss the possibilities of integrating satellite radio into the iPod, Steve Jobs turned down the offer. However, new reports show that the two companies are talking again. Kelly McNeill submitted the following editorial to osOpinion/osViews, which suggests the partnership is not to integrate satellite into the iPod but rather to make Sirius's original content for the future version of iTunes that will sport new podcasting capabilities."
I'd pay for that.
Last time they duped an article it was suggeste that.. ahh fuck it I'm too drunk to think of a goo joke for this one :P
replacing it with NEW Folger's Crystals! (lets see if they notice the difference)
http://apple.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=05/05/26
now everybody has jumped on the Podcast bandwagon. Even Apple!
The one yesterday was about a Sirius receiver in the iPod...this is about PodCasting the Sirius content following its airing. Pathetic is a big word not to be used lightly.
but I'm waiting for the podcast.
stuff
Sirius: Please, please put us in the iPod!
Steve Jobs: Nope.
Sirius: I'll be your friend!
Steve Jobs: Nope.
Sirius: If you don't put us in the iPod, I'll sign an exclusive deal with RealPlayer!
(pause)
Sirius & Steve Jobs: AHAHAHAHH!
Sirius: That's a good one. But seriously, how about putting us in the iPod?
Steve Jobs: Nope.
-Crow T. Trollbot
From that summary:
"We've covered this before"
Patiently awaiting the day the slashdot front page eats itself...
...with the Sirius Cybernetics Corp.? If so, get ready for some radio with "personality"! Share and enjoy!
This may seem like a dupe, but it ain't. Similar, but not a clone.
In any event, any time you can blast massive amounts of data from space to public handheld devices, I think the potential uses go way beyond music...
I, for one, welcome our propaganda-podcasting alien overlords
dogs generally don't like Apples?
Not Free SF Reader
Now they wont' be locked into service-specific hardware implementations and can have all the load put on the service provider. They've turned a blow-hard "business-partner" with grandios hardware constraints into a simple iTunes content provider and calmed a storm before it ever began.
It's supposed to be pretty cool.
now you can even timeshift slashdot articles. if you didn't have a chance to catch the original, no need to worry!
a nerd drunk!
wow!
Ok, you go ahead first, we'll meet you there.
"Plans are for fools! Oglethorpe, the plutonian (Aqua Teen Hunger Force)
That punishes everyone who reads the dupe.
But perhaps I am overreacting and you were merely feeling playful and punnish.
We don't see the world as it is, we see it as we are.
-- Anais Nin
Tell 'em, Fred.
This makes sense, after all, Apple wants you to be able to listen to your iPod wherever you are, including subways, trains, planes, moms' basements, etc, where I don't think Sirius goes.
They also want people to keep going on the music store homepage, where podcasts will probably be.
Is Sirius available out of the US right now? (genuine question)
If not, then this would give them the opportunity to go worldwide...
Hello! I'm a disaster waiting to happen!
Sirius representing all internet radio
Apple representing all podcast sites
RIAA representing The MAN
Radio programming is usually block or random format.
A sirius channel that plays randon selections from a particular genre is a hybrid afforded by owning many channels. genre is blocked, selections are random.
The killer podcast site for Apple would allow users to select.
1)programs such as news or 'shows' from block formatted stations, shifted to desired positions in the users ipod.
2)plays in weighted ratios from genre blocked channels.
For example.
My ideal radio station might be a mix of raggae, 60's rock, 70's rock, punk, classical, and fresh indie music with news at noon. With the podcast site removing the complexity of time shifting and selection I can be my own radio program director.
Say I want my music in ratio 3:2:5:1:3:1 from the list above. Furthermore I might prefer nterleaved to linear play.
It's easy to program if the site is set up as programming grids. For sirius the grid might have one axis labeled channel and one labeled genre. I might first select the genres and the assign ratios. For the block content it's 3-D grid. Source(station), day of week, time with block programs identifier in the selecion box. I might pick a block of bluegrass music topical to trains from WRFG in Atlanta (if the program director has figured out how to interface his station to apples site).
The above is not detail. I've actually bee working on this project for some time, sans Apple and Sirius and will be HAPPY for them to beat it out in court with RIAA rather than lil-ole-me...
Apparently, Kelly McNeill talks about Kelly McNeill in the third person. Kelly McNeill writes "...Kelly McNeill submitted the following editorial to osOpinion/osViews..."
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This makes a lot more sense than a satellite receiver in an iPod. A *lot* more sense.
Mod parent up.
He speaks from the heart.
Pass the bonG!!
"Begun, the clone wars have..." -- Yoda :-)
(God, I'm such a nerd. But then again, this is /. )
At least they are starting to consolidate the dupes. We had Podcast and Sirius on two different articles. It's like a mini Slashback!
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No. Only because that Karmazin guy ponied up $3,495 for a ticket to "D: All things digital" where he stalked Steve and pestered him about his sattelite stuff, that doesn't mean "two companies are talking".
all I know, is if I ever get one of my submissions accepted here, you better believe I am going to re-submit it when Zonk's handling the queue :-P
do you have shinyfeet?
Slashdot to be getting it's own Siruis radio station, motto is "All your favorite dupes 24/7!"
yah but how much - by the time you get a bit of content, you may as well pay the sub fee for sat.
iPod with its UNIX underpinnings is the perfect platform for this.
> I like your current idea of misspelling words in
> the subject line of replies to duped articles
D'oh! Well, I guess I'll just have to wait till the next time this is duped and post again with the wright spelling.
I think I found your keys.
the ad spots where Stern girls are deep-throating iPod Shuffles.
Wake up.
I can't believe the dopes that get mod points, while I haven't gotten them in over 3 years!
Now you know why.... Apparently the Mods Don't Read Slashdot Either (Score:0, Offtopic)
An anonymous informant writes "The last time CmdrTaco and CowboyNeal met up to discuss the possibilities of reducing dupes on the geek news site Slashdot, Rob turned down the offer. However, new reports show that the two parties are talking again. The informant submitted a document which suggests that given the nature of the increasing problem of duplicate stories, some execs at OSTG feel that something must be done. Several major news outlets have indicated plans to supply their original content for the future version of Slashdot that will sport non-dupe capabilities."
Sirius isn't, anyway. I've heard rumours of Canadian & Mexican border towns being able to pick it up, but that's not really a surprise.
Odd. According to this article on BetaNews, Apple isn't really interested: Apple Not Serious About Sirius
R.Mo
You must read /. too much, or waaay too little.
I get mod points (have them now in fact) what I think is pretty frequently.
A couple of times a day, I'll visit and view a few articles... maybe a moderate use?
Is there really enough original content on sirius for this to be of interest to anyone?
Sirius can turn this into a money-making equation if the cost of receiving podcasted content wins out over the delay of waiting for pirated Sirius material on the internet.
I think Sirius can do this. It shouldn't cost too much more than having an iPod and a Sirius subscription at the same time. But, Apple has the upper hand in these negotiations.
Computers are useless. They can only give you answers.
-- Pablo Picasso
... it's called RadioShark.. $75, records Howrd Stern every morning, dumps it to my iPod and I listen to it throughout the rest of the day.
I'm actually NOT loking forward to Howard moving to Sirius, unless they get it working on there as well.
If you must dupe, pleeeeeeeez wait long enough for it to fall out of my short-term memory.
Muchos Gracias.
Authority questions you. Return the favor.
Okay, maybe I'm a little bit behind the curve, but what is podcasting anydangway?
Just a snippet which could help substantiate the rumours. Adam Curry, who has launched podshow.com with a podcasting channel on Sirius, has been talking to Steve Jobs prior to the "All Things Digital conference". Steve wanted to ensure "Apple was doing the right thing".
Rubies and Pearls are not what you think.
A dupe now and then is fine, but this is the 3rd time /. has posted this!
Come on gang...get with the program.
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It would seem to me in this burgeoning digital on the go age that any device that would combine more than one of these offerings would be explosively popular. If, say, the iPod were to incorporate a sat radio receiver into it, it seems like that would be a very good marriage for the device. Now some say that there would be a subscription conflict. That people would opt for the sat radio content (since listening to it is paid for by the subscription fee) over the bought music files from iTunes. But, I think it would be a much more complimentary arrangement. I mean radios and cd players in cars have been a good marriage for years. Sometimes people want to just kick back and let someone else play the music and maybe hear a hot new tune they want to buy! Other times they want to play that hot new tune they just bought over and over. So I see the marriage of the most popular digital music player and the fastest growing sat radio company as a win win. The real stickler is how much of each others pies do the two parties get?