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Internet Radio on cars???

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mrtexmex2007

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Is there such a thing or will there be anytime soon Auto Internet Radio? Like lets say im In Dallas and I want to listen to a station such as news 740 am from houston is it posible or will it be posible anytime soon to listen to it in my car?
 
You can do it now but it will cost you $$$ get a laptop with cingular wifi card & a tape adapter to hook to your laptop to listen through the car stereo or you can use a cell phone with internet
 
The laptop / wireless solution is available right now. All it takes is $$$$. If you're waiting for some radio that has a wi-fi component built into it, you'll be waiting for a while, especially for true citywide (or country wide) wi-fi coverage.
 
I have awirelss card with sprint but it only plays crtain stations some stations it would just say loading...... I really have a bad experience with those cards they are really slow.
 
As the operator of two and soon to be three internet stations, we are eagerly awaiting the day where wireless internet is ubiquitous. In the meantime, I use an iPod FM transmitter plugged into my Palm Treo tuned to my internet station Radio Bop (with pocket-tunes software) to hear it on my car radio!!!!
 
Tivo for car radios?

OK I know Tivo and DVR's are for TV, but if we can send people to the moon, and come up with satellite TV and satellite radio, and a digital video recorder with all its bells and whistles, isn't it possible to do the same for radio?

As someone who really loves my satellite TV with Tivo, and my ability to watch something again and again, and pause it for trips to the kitchen or the bathroom, I can't tell you how often I find myself wishing I could do the same thing in my car. It annoys the hell out of me that I can't rewind my car radio to listen again to something I just heard.

I realize it would require a way of packaging all the radio channels into a computerized format, the way DirecTV and Dish Network package the TV channels.

Why can't XM and Sirius do the same thing with their radio channels and sell radios with built-in digital audio recorders?
 
Re: Tivo for car radios?

FilioScotia said:
OK I know Tivo and DVR's are for TV, but if we can send people to the moon, and come up with satellite TV and satellite radio, and a digital video recorder with all its bells and whistles, isn't it possible to do the same for radio?

As someone who really loves my satellite TV with Tivo, and my ability to watch something again and again, and pause it for trips to the kitchen or the bathroom, I can't tell you how often I find myself wishing I could do the same thing in my car. It annoys the hell out of me that I can't rewind my car radio to listen again to something I just heard.

I realize it would require a way of packaging all the radio channels into a computerized format, the way DirecTV and Dish Network package the TV channels.

Why can't XM and Sirius do the same thing with their radio channels and sell radios with built-in digital audio recorders?
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Sirius has one and I think Xm does also. My Sirius only has 44 minutes of "replay" so hopefully the xm device has more of a memory. When these radios came out the record companies weren't happy and thought it was just another way to steal music. I guess the Satellite companies backed off when they realized they needed to be on the record companies side when it was time to negotiate royalties for songs Sirius and Xm played.
 
It's not exactly a real-time radio TIVO, but I use a stream recorder to simultaneously capture the streams from several Sunday morning "acoustic" AAA / granola-music specialty shows, which I then re-stream (play back) during the week as I drive around.

Wish I'd had the ability to do this when David Sadoff (sp?) was doing his Sunday night show, heard it a few times while driving through your fair city and thought he did a great job. What's he up to now?
 
Read under the entertainment section-interesting ideas, no?

http://www.cnn.com/2007/LIVING/wayoflife/11/02/future.car.trends/index.html

" Streaming media is one. Supplier interviews conducted by the Center For Automotive Research (CAR) point to 2010 as the year when customized or on-demand content will be streamed to vehicles. That customized content could span the gamut from television programming and movies to important local updates, along with new, far more robust real-time traffic data through two-way communication.

Couple this trend with the fact that vehicle-based digital storage (handy for buffering downloads) will increase and drop in price, and you have a done deal. Almost: CAR notes that the challenge isn't displaying the content, but finding the bandwidth and compression necessary to deliver the programming."
 
Re: Tivo for car radios?

FilioScotia said:
OK I know Tivo and DVR's are for TV, but if we can send people to the moon, and come up with satellite TV and satellite radio, and a digital video recorder with all its bells and whistles, isn't it possible to do the same for radio?

As someone who really loves my satellite TV with Tivo, and my ability to watch something again and again, and pause it for trips to the kitchen or the bathroom, I can't tell you how often I find myself wishing I could do the same thing in my car. It annoys the hell out of me that I can't rewind my car radio to listen again to something I just heard.

I realize it would require a way of packaging all the radio channels into a computerized format, the way DirecTV and Dish Network package the TV channels.

Why can't XM and Sirius do the same thing with their radio channels and sell radios with built-in digital audio recorders?
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Both XM and Sirius have multiple units that allow you to pause, rewind, and record radio. I've had a SkyFi 2 since early 2005 and I can't tell you how many times I need that pause button.

stan said:
The laptop / wireless solution is available right now. All it takes is $$$$. If you're waiting for some radio that has a wi-fi component built into it, you'll be waiting for a while, especially for true citywide (or country wide) wi-fi coverage.
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That's exactly my problem. It's too inconvenient and too expensive. I could get WiFi through my cell phone but with the bandwidth I would suck up listening to internet streams in my car I'd end up paying too much money. There's WiFi signals all around here, but they're all encrypted and there's no consistent signal for a significant distance. The auto industry, and people, won't accept mobile wireless internet until it reaches a specific level of convenience. People don't like to install things anymore.

Another issue I'm concerned about is if the day comes when internet radio in cars is commonplace, will internet radio stations be driven out of business by bandwidth bills? Unfortunately the delivery truck known as the internet is more comparable to print media than TV and radio, where each additional listener/viewer costs the provider more money.
 
Internet radio in cars can be done more efficiently through satellites than terrestrial towers. I don't see too much future in the satellite radio realm, not as much as I do with internet radio. I do believe it will all merge and the satellites used to provide XM and Sirius will provide Wi-Fi radio/video and internet inevitably or replaced with ones that can.
 
mrtexmex2007 said:
Is there such a thing or will there be anytime soon Auto Internet Radio? Like lets say im In Dallas and I want to listen to a station such as news 740 am from houston is it posible or will it be posible anytime soon to listen to it in my car?
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All you need is one of the old analog tuned Delco's from the late 60's, the narrow IF at 262kHz will separate out 740 from that garbage on 730. I have no trouble at all getting KTRH on a GE SR-1 in Plano, I can even turn the radio and pick up the 740 from Tulsa. KTRH has plenty of power to make it to Dallas on a good radio. The problem is that 730.
 
as a subscriber to live 365.com, i read that they are going to be on car radios in the next 2-4 years, i was wondering how could they do that . i read some post on here about bandwith and wi fi and other technology that is a little bit over my head. thanks captex
 
Captex,

In a few years I think it will be transparent and you won't have to worry about the technology because it will "just work."

It might take 10 years, but I think eventually we won't use terms such as "radio" "satellite radio" or "streaming radio" to describe what we're listening to - we'll just say "audio" or something like that.

Think about how things are right now - audio is audio, the method we use to listen to it is what is different. Sat radio requires a "special radio" to listen; same with HD or with an internet-only station (here the device could be a smart phone, a regular cell phone, a computer, an internet radio, etc.). Eventually the 'box' will be able to pick up all of these feeds, most likely via a wimax connection or mobile internet connection. The good news for listeners is that they can listen to any station, any time, anywhere. The bad news for broadcasters is that anyone can run a station, and many of the barriers to entry (a big tower, tons of equipment, etc) will have been removed.

I see much the same thing happening to television as the cost to produce a "broadcast quality" program is now down to the price of an $1,100 Mac laptop and a $1,000 hi-def camera. In a decade many people who are today's YouTube crowd will be producing compelling content that can compete (at the very least in a 'long tail' environment) with what we now call networks.
 
Maybe Internet Radio in the palm of your hand soon: http://www.cambridgeconsultants.com/news_pr194.shtml_________________________________________________

While it seems like a lot of trouble to go through just to make a palm-sized radio, Cambridge Consultants has figured out how to pack enough Wi-Fi radio circuitry into this RadioPro to let you receive 10,000 stereo radio stations from all over the world. What's the big deal about that, you say? The company's able to put together each RadioPro with materials that cost a mere $15.

Cambridge Consultants plans to provide the circuitry to makers of consumer electronics devices, and claims this little bauble will open the door to not only radios, but numerous Wi-Fi-enabled devices that can access the Web from any hot spot. The hand-held unit can run for 25 hours on a battery charge, and is also designed to have its software automatically upgraded via its Wi-Fi connection. The company says to expect products based on this tiny platform within the next two months.
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Wow! Great tip, DayRadio. Can't wait to get my hands on it. I really hope they're available locally in time for Christmas. At that price, I could take care of just about everybody on my entire shopping list in one place!
 
Audi/Bang & Olufsen take internet radio on the road

http://whathifi.com/mp3/archive/2007/11/15/news-audi-bang-amp-olufsen-take-internet-radio-on-the-road.aspx

"An internet radio station in your car, able to tailor its programming to your own musical tastes - that's just one of the features built into the Audi Cross Cabriolet Quattro concept car. It's being shown by the company at the Los Angeles Motor Show, which opens to the public tomorrow.

The Bang & Olufsen system streams radio via the car's mobile internet link, and as a result of the car's occupants accepting or rejecting the music on offer, builds a tailor-made playlist able to adapt itself to your tastes."

... More at the site. It is a concept car, so don't look for it soon, but this, folks, is the future of radio!
 
Doctor_Technical said:
It's not exactly a real-time radio TIVO, but I use a stream recorder to simultaneously capture the streams from several Sunday morning "acoustic" AAA / granola-music specialty shows, which I then re-stream (play back) during the week as I drive around.

Wish I'd had the ability to do this when David Sadoff (sp?) was doing his Sunday night show, heard it a few times while driving through your fair city and thought he did a great job. What's he up to now?
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Thanks Doctor Technical. I'm not doing anything on-air at the moment, but I would love the opportunity to do my show again. Oh, since you asked, there's only one "f" in Sadof.
 
I have a PPC 6700 and use it all the time on Sprint's EVDO network to listen to various radio streams. http://tuned.mobi is a good site for finding various streams that will play on a PPC device.

In fact, most XM channels sound better using the audio out jack on my phone (direct connectin), compared with the actual XM receiver.
 
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