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USB Dongle Records Web, FM Radio

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the now-thats-a-clever-idea dept.

rah1420 writes "Gizmag just wrote about "Instant FM Music," a USB dongle that plugs into your computer's USB Port and records FM and Web Radio stations. You can record the playlist, tag the songs for easy playback, all without that nasty DRM." Nice and cheap, although who knows if the software is any good. That would be a neat device to see hacked for things like MythTV.

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  1. Damned limitations on AM! by Martin+Blank · · Score: 3, Informative

    I understand why they're there, but much of what I listen to is on AM, and carrying around a Radio Shark just isn't always convenient.

    Still, I'd be able to listen to/record Car Talk and Fresh Air from NPR, and maybe the occasional show from Pacifica, so it's not entirely bad.

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  2. A sales rep for Silicon Labs... by JesseL · · Score: 2, Informative

    came in to work and gave us one of these a couple months ago.

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  3. Wasn't this called RadioShark a few years back by Em+Ellel · · Score: 2, Informative

    As in This RadioShark

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  4. Re:Appears to use RDS by Kankraka · · Score: 2, Informative

    I don't live in that big of a city (metro pop, around 1 million) in Canada, and every major station has RDS enabled. Hell, RDS isn't that expensive to implement so a lot of community stations could do it as well for relatively cheap. Most new cars are coming equipped with a means of decoding RDS as well, you'll see it primarily in GM vehicles.