I moved up a notch and got a Grace Digital Wireless Hi-fi Internet Radio Tuner for my home stereo. There is a lot of good radio out there on the internet! I have been listening to Internet radio for many years. Its great to be able to hear some classic country, good oldies, dance mixes and more with just a touch of a button! I have it also on my phone, but the speaker is horrible to be listening to while driving to work. I still love regular radio. After these changes CC did, its much more fun with Internet radio and a good system!
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jras20 said:I moved up a notch and got a Grace Digital Wireless Hi-fi Internet Radio Tuner for my home stereo. There is a lot of good radio out there on the internet! I have been listening to Internet radio for many years. Its great to be able to hear some classic country, good oldies, dance mixes and more with just a touch of a button! I have it also on my phone, but the speaker is horrible to be listening to while driving to work. I still love regular radio. After these changes CC did, its much more fun with Internet radio and a good system!
I thought about buying one of those, but the sales-dude at Fry's Electronics couldn't tell me whether the CBS and CC stations were available so I decided not to buy it (they were removed from the TuneIn app on my Roku box a few months ago). Who (if anyone) provides the stations for the Grace products?
Agree that it's a great way to listen. I have 4 Internet radios at my house. 3 of them are Grace Digital units. 8)
To bring the thread on topic for this area, IMO KSTX is doing the most interesting thing with streaming that any local station is doing. They have an on-demand station that plays their most recent local newscast. It seems to be a weekdays-only feature.
To bring the thread on topic for this area, IMO KSTX is doing the most interesting thing with streaming that any local station is doing. They have an on-demand station that plays their most recent local newscast. It seems to be a weekdays-only feature.
Grace gets its station data from Reciva.com, which includes the CBS stations and it also has separate access to Iheartradio. That would cover both CC and CBS. 8)KeithE4 said:Who (if anyone) provides the stations for the Grace products?
daypart said:Grace gets its station data from Reciva.com, which includes the CBS stations and it also has separate access to Iheartradio. That would cover both CC and CBS. 8)KeithE4 said:Who (if anyone) provides the stations for the Grace products?
Thanks. I looked at the Solo tuner ($100 at Fry's) and the Innovator X stand-alone radio ($150). The stand-alone looks like it'll fit my needs better. I'll have to look at it again.
daypart said:Grace gets its station data from Reciva.com, which includes the CBS stations and it also has separate access to Iheartradio. That would cover both CC and CBS. 8)KeithE4 said:Who (if anyone) provides the stations for the Grace products?
I take it that reciva.com makes its money by selling its station database to manufacturers like Grace Digital. Their website is sparse but it does have a searchable (but not downloadable) directory.
Are these only the streams of terrestrial stations or are there Internet only signals?
For the US stations, it's generally everything but the commercials, which may be replaced by PSAs. Overseas, it varies. For instance in the UK the BBC feeds are exactly what the locals hear, but some sporting events may be clipped out due to rights restrictions. But the commercial stations may be different.
There are Internet-only stations.MisterRadio said:Are these only the streams of terrestrial stations or are there Internet only signals?
I know of a few Internet-only stations that are clones of defunct broadcast stations. They use the imaging of the broadcast station and automate its playlist.
KeithE4 said:daypart said:Grace gets its station data from Reciva.com, which includes the CBS stations and it also has separate access to Iheartradio. That would cover both CC and CBS. 8)KeithE4 said:Who (if anyone) provides the stations for the Grace products?
Thanks. I looked at the Solo tuner ($100 at Fry's) and the Innovator X stand-alone radio ($150). The stand-alone looks like it'll fit my needs better. I'll have to look at it again.
I finally broke down and bought the Innovator X a couple of days ago - $140 at Fry's, and it was the last one they had. I love it.
It's a bit flimsy mechanically, especially the large "select" knob, but overall it's fantastic. Easy to connect to my WiFi, reasonably straight-forward when it comes to finding stations (I found that searching by genre worked best), and decent but not audiophile-level sound quality - about the same as the average mono table radio. A firmware upgrade was needed to be able to select all available stations, but the instructions on how to do that were very well written. There are 10 presets available, which should be enough for most people. A remote is included but it's not really necessary.
But more importantly, there are no dropouts, unlike the apps in my smartphone, and I can now listen to pretty much whatever I want. And it does include CBS, iHeartRadio, NPR, Pandora, and just about anything else you can think of. This is the future of broadcast audio listening (you know, what they used to call "radio" ;D ).
CTHank said:Why is internet radio called radio? ??? Just wondering ???
For the same reason we still "dial" a telephone, even though phones haven't had dials for ages (unless you're still using an old one, and your phone company still supports it, of course).
KeithE4 said:CTHank said:Why is internet radio called radio? ??? Just wondering ???
For the same reason we still "dial" a telephone, even though phones haven't had dials for ages (unless you're still using an old one, and your phone company still supports it, of course).
I would call it Radio Via Internet Protocol. Kind of like my second line which is Voice over Internet Protocol. Pulse dialing is still supported but only on Analog Land Lines. Like the tuner they advertise on 98.9 for a whopping $150 plus dollars, I call that RVIP.
KeithE4 said:I finally broke down and bought the Innovator X III a couple of days ago - $140 at Fry's, and it was the last one they had. I love it.
It's a bit flimsy mechanically, especially the large "select" knob, but overall it's fantastic. Easy to connect to my WiFi, reasonably straight-forward when it comes to finding stations (I found that searching by genre worked best), and decent but not audiophile-level sound quality - about the same as the average mono table radio. A firmware upgrade was needed to be able to select all available stations, but the instructions on how to do that were very well written. There are 10 presets available, which should be enough for most people. A remote is included but it's not really necessary.
But more importantly, there are no dropouts, unlike the apps in my smartphone, and I can now listen to pretty much whatever I want. And it does include CBS, iHeartRadio, NPR, Pandora, and just about anything else you can think of. This is the future of broadcast audio listening (you know, what they used to call "radio" ;D ).
Fixed. I bought an Innovator III, not an X. I think this was last year's model. Anyway, it works great.
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