I just drove from DC to NYC last weekend and used my iPhone 3G to stream music and talk the entire way. Results were flawless, except for one drop when crossing the Delaware River...the signal quickly re-established a mile down the road. The iPhone was in a car charger the entire way, hence power wasn't an issue and the sound quality was as good as the bit rate of the stream. This wasn't a one off test for me either. I regularly drive in the DC/Baltimore area and rarely lose my internet audio stream.
Aside from Howard Stern and sports...neither of which mean much to me...I fail to see what satellite radio has to offer which the internet doesn't. Perhaps if I lived in area with poor 3G coverage, I'd feel differently but for the present moment, I'm extremely pleased with the iPhone 3G as a streaming radio device.
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That's funny, I built a Gentoo system the other day and VI was NOT installed by default. I was quite amused watching a VI-only so-called admin try to navigate his way around with Nano...admittedly, this person is an idiot but it was funny nonetheless.
--Eddie
"There is one true editor and RMS is it's prophet"
Stream ripping will kill the subscription model one way or another.
I watched a friend sign up for a 30 day free trial of Rhapsody. He then proceeded to stream rip music day and night for a month using High Criteria's TotalRecorder software. When the month was up, he didn't subscribe and he walked away a HUGE number of albums. Interestingly enough, the CD's he burned using this method were recognizable by cddb's.
Here-in exists the problem. If Napster actually succeeds in signing up a large number of subscribers, theft will also rise exponentially. Eventually, the record companies will notice that one or two college kids are feeding and entire university campus with music and they'll pull the plug on the entire endeavor.
There are many stream-ripping programs available for every platform...indeed, I use Audio-Hijack Professional for OSX myself. Until this problem is solved/addressed, subscription based services will have a HUGE achilles heel.
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I just drove from DC to NYC last weekend and used my iPhone 3G to stream music and talk the entire way. Results were flawless, except for one drop when crossing the Delaware River...the signal quickly re-established a mile down the road. The iPhone was in a car charger the entire way, hence power wasn't an issue and the sound quality was as good as the bit rate of the stream. This wasn't a one off test for me either. I regularly drive in the DC/Baltimore area and rarely lose my internet audio stream. Aside from Howard Stern and sports...neither of which mean much to me...I fail to see what satellite radio has to offer which the internet doesn't. Perhaps if I lived in area with poor 3G coverage, I'd feel differently but for the present moment, I'm extremely pleased with the iPhone 3G as a streaming radio device.
That's funny, I built a Gentoo system the other day and VI was NOT installed by default. I was quite amused watching a VI-only so-called admin try to navigate his way around with Nano...admittedly, this person is an idiot but it was funny nonetheless.
--Eddie
"There is one true editor and RMS is it's prophet"
Stream ripping will kill the subscription model one way or another.
I watched a friend sign up for a 30 day free trial of Rhapsody. He then proceeded to stream rip music day and night for a month using High Criteria's TotalRecorder software. When the month was up, he didn't subscribe and he walked away a HUGE number of albums. Interestingly enough, the CD's he burned using this method were recognizable by cddb's.
Here-in exists the problem. If Napster actually succeeds in signing up a large number of subscribers, theft will also rise exponentially. Eventually, the record companies will notice that one or two college kids are feeding and entire university campus with music and they'll pull the plug on the entire endeavor.
There are many stream-ripping programs available for every platform...indeed, I use Audio-Hijack Professional for OSX myself. Until this problem is solved/addressed, subscription based services will have a HUGE achilles heel.