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Blue Tango Classic Bluetooth MP3 Player Reviewed
VL writes "Looking to broadcast your tunes around the house? We look at a product that does that without the hassles of wires. The theory behind this sound card is very interesting, that of wireless audio from a computer to a speaker system in another room. The downside to this is that it is a class II Bluetooth device, which suffers from short range for the signal, 12' isn't really that great for a wireless device."
12 feet seems like fair use. Lots of people use FM transmitters in their car to do that. How far is copyright infringement? If you broadcast your music 200 feet are you still ok? 20000?
Wireless, but less space than an iPod. Lame.
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12' isn't really that great for a wireless device.
It is if your receiver is a wireless headset - I've been trying to find a good solution to receive bluetooth audio from my powerbook into some sort of wireless headset (last time I researched, the cel-phone ones worked, but supposedly with limited quality)
Looking to broadcast your tunes around the house? We look at a product that does that without the hassles of wires
Like an FM transmitter?
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"when is the USA going to leave the the IX century and use the metric system?"
When the other countries have more fucking nukes, man.
The US officially adopted the metric system decades ago. Everyone just ignored it. Other than forcing people to use it at gunpoint, what do you suggest that isn't totalitarian?
...an 802.11 hub that plugs into your receiver, so that you can pick receivers from your computer: Airport Express.
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12' (without walls!) doesn't even reach into the garden.
Seriously, this hardware is more of a cheap rip off than worth being submitted here as news!
How small is the label on the package that says it's only 12'?
The US system of measurement dates from 1593 in England, hence the US left the 9th century behind by 700 years. Furthermore, it has always been the perogative of the dominant economic power to dictate the system of weights and measures used in trade. Since the US is the dominant economic power with a GDP greater than China and Japan combined (2 & 3, respectively,) not to mention a GDP greater than the entire 25 member state European Union, it is actually quite generous of us to continue to let the rest of the world use their quaint metric system. Flame on!
What's the bitrate of this device? If it's less than 1536 kbs, is the audio compressed? Is this compression lossy?
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Technically, 2 and 3 in the world rankings of GDP would be the European Union and China, with their combined GDP ousting the U.S. by $7,162,000,000,000. I think it's fair to include the EU as relevent since you phrased it as "economic power" and not as countries. Goodday sir.
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http://www.apple.com/airportexpress/airtunes.html
Odd that TFA doesn't mention Apple's Airport Express, which has been doing something like this for a year or so. It's wifi, so the range is good, and it'll connect to a stereo with digital-optical or analog inputs. You don't have to replace your soundcard, either.
But you do have to use iTunes. Anyone managed to send audio to an Airport Express from an open-source application, yet?
the 9th century is the 800s, and therefore, you are off by 100 years.
1593~1600
1600-800=800
and yes, the us measurements system is better.
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Where have you been?
Show me on the doll where his noodly appendage touched you.
The Airport Express is 802.11g, so it has range much longer than 12 feet, you can use it to wirelessly network your printer as well as your stereo, and is cheaper.
Class III ~1M( 3' )
Class II ~10M( 30' )
Class 1 ~100M( 300' )
YMMV since if you put one end of this in a 6'x6'x6' metal cage, your actual range will be 6'.
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Give me a break, my bedroom is bigger than 12' - much less the rest of my house. What exactly is the point of a wireless device when I can comfortably get a wire the same length. (I say comfortably because obviously I COULD stroll around with my laptop...)
I'm all for useful technology... but this will set me back $140 - more than a mini ipod, which I can carry anywhere, and which holds 1000-2000 songs (meaning I wouldn't have to refill it often even if listening almost constantly)
Since when does a wanker who moans yet again about the u.s. using an intuitive and meaningful measurement system get modded as "Interesting"?
These are actually Hindu numerals... the Arabs got them from further east...
People used to pay a lot less attention to this stuff.
To vacillate or not to vacillate, that is the question... or is it?
There's little that's intuitive about a base-2 system that started out with the measure of a king's foot. We've crippled ourselves by sticking with these crappy measurements.
base-10 is the way our math system runs, we should have a measuring system that reflects that.
Australia converted their whole country pretty much overnight. If we didn't have such a large population of reactionaries who're scared of anything that might seem communist we'd have been there too.
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WiFi is becoming very common and it doesn't seem to get along very well with BT v1.1.
I'm told that BT v1.2 works better in WiFi environments, so I will wait for something that supports 1.2.
Are there any other products like this (that might usee 1.2)?
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To my mom's house, in order
To fit the server?
When metric system users start using the metric system.
Why would you talk about kilogram-force or "it weighs 4 kilogrms" when you've got a perfectly serviceable unit for force already in that system.
I thought half the point of SI was to disambiguate such things. The US standard system has two units for mass and one for force, but magically everyone uses them correctly. (ok well the magic is that one of the units for force is the same as the unit for mass, but surely that comes from the days when people didn't know there was a difference between weight and mass)
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I'm with ya -- the math of measurements would be so much easier for me if my fellow Americans used the metric system. I was a kid when they tried it -- seemed perfectly sensible and easy to understand to me and the kids with me.
Since we never were forced to use it, I didn't develop a good sense of "how long is a centimeter" or "how heavy is a kilogram", but I bet that would come after only a short time of using the metric system. I sure did get a good sense of how much volume a liter was.
I even liked the Celsius temperature system. It's all so simple and useful: 0 freezes water, and 100 boils it.
Actually, this was developed in Taiwan, and the length was originally measured in metric.
Oh, and Bluetooth doesn't conflict with wi-fi as much as 2.4GHz does, which is what most of its competitors use. Although Bluetooth has shorter range, many people already use 2.4GHz phones and devices, so that's why Bluetooth was selected over 2.4GHz. Erm, one more thing praising this: this thing can run with other Bluetooth enabled A2DP devices, such as a Pocket PC. In that case, if you have the drivers, the receiver works with your phone, PDA, or even your laptop computer.
12' audio cable: $1.99
The feeling of getting ripped off by purchasing a wireless device that cant even reach as far as your own arms and legs: priceless
"Blue Tango" is a splendid Leroy Anderson musical composition, and although few know the name of the song, many would recognize the melody. As an appellation for this technology, the name resounds with postmodern irony.
This brings up a question I've wondered for a while now...
Is there a Windows equivelent of Airfoil, the Airport Extreme audio sender... ?
Since the 2.0 specification should indeed make MP3 (or even better, Ogg) stereo sound possible, I am eagerly awaiting digital headphones. I would not mind an additional mike either, as long as it does not mess up the distance that the thing should work. Applications: normal in house use, but also use with laptops, PDA's and MP3 mobile phones.
WiFi does not work for this due to the amount of energy that is needed, the problem of setting up the connection and the lack of standardisation on the application level.
Philips and Sennheisser, get your engines started! I'll buy the first functional BT headphones you provide (under euro 300 of course).