Re: [Swprograms] The other shoe... (internet radio receivers)

[Mark Hawkins <mark@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Lee,

A quick surf suggests that while manufacturer support for your Turtle Beach Audiotron has ceased they have provided a way for you to maintain your radio station database yourself which seems workable.

You are in a better situation than I would be if Reciva stopped operating the service behind my wifi radio.

The basic problem is that radio station stream locations often have complex URLs and manually entering such parameters is much less attractive to a prospective purchaser than a list centrally provided.

Ideally there would be one standard for the provision of tuning information which manufacturers of all such devices would support and the ability to point the radio at alternative sources by entering a new tuning guide IP address.

I don't know of a device which reaches this ideal.

Mark Hawkins

 

 

On 5 Aug 2008, at 06:59, Lee Reynolds wrote:

Now, I'm a fan of internet radio, I like it a lot. There's one weakness only that bothers me about it - the need for a third party internet-based source for quick and easy access to station listings.

 

That kind of thing exposes you to the possibility of subscription fees, information source outages or, worse yet, the source goes away permanently.

 

I've suffered that last problem and am now considering whether to sell the device involved (a Turtle Beach Audiotron) or to bodge something together to keep it sort of working.

 

See? Internet radio listeners are just as much at the mercy of a third party making the stations go away just as the SWL is!

 

That said, anyone know of a quality 'net radio that *doesn't* need a third party site to effectively and easily manage station listings?

 

Lee

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