Ah yes, murder and embezzlement, along with assorted other minor crimes.
I think it's legal for the cops and feds to outright lie in order to nab hearty criminals. And now drug dealers... *sigh*
One last shameless plug. Our station uses Shoutcast. We're also investigating Icecast. Our technical guy can tell you the difference between the two, but I can't. Shoutcast seems to be good and stable, and you can go to Shoutcast's page to find stations. Rogue Amoeba, who makes the supremely awesome Nicecast (no, I don't work for them, I'm just a fan), has their Macstreams here:
acroyear says, "so there's a need for radio: when you don't have an mp3 collection in the car, it allows 'randomness' to control what you hear. but as we all know, over the air radio sucks."
In the case of classic rock, sure, ok, because every classic rock song that will ever be released has been released. But how do people find out about new music without hearing it on radio? With the satellite stuff, it shows up right there on the little ugly screen, so you can track it down later. We give out the monitoring URL for Shoutcast's listers and status page so people can see what we're playing (see: http://broadcast.theoryradio.org:8000).
Podcasting seems so hopelessly complicated that a novice like me could scarsely hope to learn how to do it. I don't know... maybe it's much simpler than it seems. A couple of our DJs are looking into doing it.
Yeah, I completely agree (I have Sirius, not XM). It's not just about not having commercials, it's about a different range of music available. It seems like the obvious reason Satellite, Podcasting, and Internet Radio is around is because commercial radio stations are too similar-sounding and aren't worth listening to. It's amazing that the radio industry has become so terrible that people are happy to pay for radio.
Amazing, but ok.
I have discovered that I LOVE radio drama, where I wouldn't ever have known that given our ClearChannel span here. I mean, where is the radio drama station in LA, eh?
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http://www.somafm.com/ is my mom's favorite, aside from ours, of course (http://www.theoryradio.org/)
So I don't really see why this is even news. Is it news? Free radio?
I love Sirius and their $12.95/mo fee is totally reasonable for a gah-zillion commercial-free (and Clear Channel-free) channels.
And wasn't there another SlashDot article about XM raising their monthly fees and including streaming audio much like Sirius?
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P.S. On a side note, from 7-11 tonight (monday) Vanessa and I will be doing our weekly show on http://www.theoryradio.org/ with a webcam on http://www.digitalsquishy.com/webcam.html. It should be weird.
Ah yes, murder and embezzlement, along with assorted other minor crimes.
I think it's legal for the cops and feds to outright lie in order to nab hearty criminals. And now drug dealers... *sigh*
And, of course, our station rocks the world at
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In the case of classic rock, sure, ok, because every classic rock song that will ever be released has been released. But how do people find out about new music without hearing it on radio? With the satellite stuff, it shows up right there on the little ugly screen, so you can track it down later. We give out the monitoring URL for Shoutcast's listers and status page so people can see what we're playing (see: http://broadcast.theoryradio.org:8000).
Podcasting seems so hopelessly complicated that a novice like me could scarsely hope to learn how to do it. I don't know... maybe it's much simpler than it seems. A couple of our DJs are looking into doing it.
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Amazing, but ok.
I have discovered that I LOVE radio drama, where I wouldn't ever have known that given our ClearChannel span here. I mean, where is the radio drama station in LA, eh?
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That makes them along the same lines as Sirius.
Internet radio is generally free, though. You mean they were charging you to go online and hear their music?
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