[macvoiceover] Fwd: [aiphone] STATE OF THE ART; A Library Of Listening, Made by You
- From: Ricardo Walker <rwalker296@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: Mobile Access Access <chat@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Thu, 23 Jun 2011 11:42:02 -0400
Hi,
I'm just sharing this with the list. I think many will find this extremely
useful.
Ricardo Walker
rwalker296@xxxxxxxxx
Twitter, Skype, & AIM: rwalker296
www.mobileaccess.org
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> From: "Reginald George" <adapt@xxxxxxxxx>
> Subject: [aiphone] STATE OF THE ART; A Library Of Listening, Made by You
> Date: June 23, 2011 11:05:52 AM EDT
> To: <aiphone@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Reply-To: aiphone@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
>
> Let us start the day with a great article from the Ny Time's David Pogue.
> Which I illegally transcribe here for all of you, in full, for your reading
> pleasure and edification, smile.
> This article is relevant to this list because there is an IPhone app, called
> Airband, I won't even make you read all the way down to find the reference,
> that will let you take advantage of this service.
>
>
>
> STATE OF THE ART; A Library Of Listening, Made by You
> By DAVID POGUE
> Published: May 26, 2011
>
> Want to know the real problem with the digital age? There's not enough to
> listen to.
>
> I mean, what is there, other than your iPod music, your phone, AM/FM radio,
> satellite radio, podcasts, Internet radio stations, Pandora, Rhapsody,
> Napster, Slacker, Live365 and maybe one or two hundred other sources?
>
> I kid, of course. The thing is, though, they're all compromises. The free
> ones don't let you choose exactly what you want to hear or when; the ones
> that do cost money.
>
> But that's about to change. One phrase should tell you all you need to know
> about the latest development: free TiVo for radio.
>
> That's the promise ofDAR.fm, a Web site that lists every single radio show
> on every one of 1,800 AM and FM stations across the country. (It stands for
> Digital Audio Recorder.)
>
> You can search, sort, slice and dice those listings any way you want: by
> genre, by radio station, by search phrase. It's all here: NPR, Rush
> Limbaugh, Glenn Beck. Music shows. Talk shows. Religion, sports, technology.
> Politics by the pound.
>
> You don't know or care when your show will actually be aired, or on what
> station. You only know that you've requested it. Shortly thereafter, an
> e-mail message lets you know that your freshly baked show is ready for
> listening.
>
> You get every episode, automatically. And why not? It's not your hard drive
> they're filling up. You get two gigabytes of free storage, enough for about
> 100 hours of recorded shows. If you fill in the application page at
> MP3Tunes.com, you get a free upgrade to 10 gigabytes. That's 500 hours of
> radio, which is almost enough to cover your next layover at O'Hare.
>
> And here's the best part: you can listen absolutely anywhere. For starters,
> you can listen right there on the DAR.fm Web page. The page that lists your
> recordings wasn't designed by, you know, Monet, but it gets the job done.
> You can pause, rewind and fast-forward through your recordings, and there
> are 30-second skip forward/skip backward buttons.
>
> Actually, maybe this part is even better: Many radio stations transmit the
> names of the songs and bands they're playing. DAR.fm captures that
> information and detects song breaks. In other words, if you record a day or
> so of a music station, you've suddenly got a tidy list of songs, identified
> (and sortable) by title or band. You can listen to individual songs, skip
> the turkeys and otherwise enjoy your totally free song collection. It's
> crazy cool, like a hybrid of iTunes and satellite radio.
>
> You can also listen to your recordings on an app phone, using a free app for
> that purpose. (The app for iPhone is called Airband; for Android, it's
> MP3Tunes; for Windows Phone 7, Locker Player; for WebOS, MP3tunes.) Can you
> imagine having the last few weeks' worth of every worthwhile radio show,
> right on your phone? Sure, subscribing to podcasts achieves a similar
> goal -- but not every show is available as a podcast. And this way, you
> never have to sync your phone with your computer.
>
> For best results, listen when your phone is in a Wi-Fi hot spot. Otherwise,
> streaming music will rip through your monthly data allowance like the winner
> of a hot-dog-eating contest.
>
> Or use the trick described at dar.fm/faq.php. It tells you how to download
> your recordings, so you can listen to them later without an Internet
> connection. (Yes, you can even download individual songs that you captured.
> The record-company lawyers must love that part.)
>
> Even more intriguingly, you can listen to your recordings on an actual,
> physical radio. You know, one of those tabletop things with speakers and
> knobs. These days, they come with wireless Internet connections -- which is
> all DAR.fm needs to know.
>
> The Wi-Fi radios from Grace Digital ($80 to $200) list DAR.fm right on the
> main menu. Selecting that source instantly presents your list of recorded
> radio shows.
>
> But Grace radios aren't your only option. The person who created DAR.fm also
> runs a company called MP3Tunes.com. It's an online storage locker for your
> music files, so that you can play them from any computer or phone, anywhere
> you go.
>
> (If this sounds familiar, it's because Amazon introduced a nearly identical
> service last month, called Amazon Cloud Player. Google just opened a ''cloud
> music locker'' service, too. Needless to say, the headlines about this
> ''new'' kind of music service drives the MP3Tunes guy crazy; his site has
> been in operation for four years.)
>
> Whenever you record a show at DAR.fm, it shows up automatically in your
> MP3Tunes.com music locker. And the contents of that locker are viewable, and
> playable, on 30 different Wi-Fi radio models from various manufacturers, and
> even the Roku set-top TV box.
>
> The Logitech Squeezebox is one of them, and it's representative of how you
> would get to your recorded radio shows. You set up by installing an MP3Tunes
> app and putting it on your main menu. Thereafter, you choose MP3Tunes; then,
> in the next menu, Playlists. Inside, you'll find all your recorded shows.
> So -- another couple of steps.
>
> (The Squeezebox can also accommodate a battery, sold separately, so ''All
> Things Considered'' can follow you around the house as you do your
> springtime chores.)
>
> So here's the bottom line: DAR.fm is a joy to use, it's simple enough to be
> idiotproof, and the sound quality is very good. And it's absolutely free.
>
> Where's the catch?
>
> First, it won't always be free. The company intends to incorporate ads at
> some point -- not audio ads, but text ads that appear in your app or the
> screen of your radio.
>
> Second, you have to wonder about the legality of all this. The company says
> that it's in the clear. It points to a 2008 case involving Cablevision, the
> cable company, which offered its subscribers a service that could record
> your favorite TV shows by remote control -- like a TiVo, except that the
> recording machines were at Cablevision and not at your house. The judge
> ruled that this plan was O.K. because Cablevision wasn't actually making
> copies of copyrighted material; it was creating separate recording for each
> customer who requested it.
>
> That's what DAR says it's doing. If 8,000 people all record a certain
> episode of ''Fresh Air,'' then, by golly, it makes 8,000 copies of that
> audio file at its headquarters. Seems wasteful, but hey -- that's what the
> judge wants.
>
> Third, there are a few minor features that might be nice to add. The main
> one is that you have to program your recordings on the Web -- you can't do
> itfrom your physical Wi-Fi radio. Similarly, if you're listening to a live
> show on your Wi-Fi radio, there's no Record button.
>
> But those complaints sound like an application for the Nitpickers Society.
> DAR.fm is fantastic, useful, easy to use and free. It's real TiVo for radio.
> It lets you time shift, of course, but also presents the entire universe of
> radio broadcasting in one tidy menu. No longer must you gripe about the
> creeping commercialism that shut down, say, your town's NPR affiliate or
> '70s reggae station. Suddenly there are 1,800 radio stations in your town --
> and they program their shows according to your schedule, not theirs.
>
> You've complained about having nothing to listen to for the very last time.
>
> PHOTOS: Using Wi-Fi technology, Grace Digital radios like the model
> GDI-IRD4000 enable the listener to select the DAR.fm service from the main
> menu.; The Logitech Squeezebox Radio is one of many brands that can provide
> access to an Internet playlist. (B11)
> DRAWING (DRAWING BY STUART GOLDENBERG) (B1)
>
>
> Reginald George
> Adaptive Technology Specialist
> Kansas City Missouri
> 816-200-1064
> adapt@xxxxxxxxx
>
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