The Radio I’ve Been Waiting For:
I love radio. Crazy wack funky love it. I probably listen to 4-5 hours of radio a day just by having it on while I work or when I’m driving. When I’m traveling, few things make me happier than flipping the dial and seeing what color the locals have painted the ether.
Yet most of the time I’m simply too busy to schedule planting myself in front of a radio for 2 hours. Many shows like “This American Life” archive all their shows online but that’s not much of an improvement. It’s an hour spent in front of the computer instead of the radio when I remember to check their website for new episodes. Which I don’t.
The phrase “TiVo for Radio” has been getting a lot of play lately thanks to the coming of Podcasting. But podcasting doesn’t quite solve my problem because I’m not looking to carry Adam Curry’s musings around on my iPod. I’m looking for the radio I already listen to, packaged and portable for when I want to listen to it.
Enter Radio Time. I read about it in Wired whose cover story this month is titled “The End of Radio.” Radio Time is a subscription service which, for $50 a year, will let you browse pretty much every radio station in the country, pick the programs you like and record them in MP3 format. It uses the station’s own live stream for recording and iTunes for pickup so you have to have a DSL line and a computer you leave on.
I’ve loaded up my grocery list of favorite programs. Also nothing has recorded yet and hence, I’m waiting to make a fanfare-cornonation-“Today is a New Day” announcement, Radio Time looks mighty promising. It could be exactly the radio I’ve been hoping for.
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If you’re into time shifting radio, try Replay Radio.
Replay Radio lets you record ANY Radio station broadcast over the Web as an MP3 file, and then copy it to your iPod or other MP3 player. It will even burn CDs automatically.
Replay Radio comes with a database of over 700 shows and 1000 stations, and you can easily add your own.
Check it out! A free trial is available from here:
http://www.replay-radio.com
Enjoy!
If you’re into time shifting radio, try Replay Radio.
Replay Radio lets you record ANY Radio station broadcast over the Web as an MP3 file, and then copy it to your iPod or other MP3 player. It will even burn CDs automatically.
Replay Radio comes with a database of over 700 shows and 1000 stations, and you can easily add your own.
Check it out! A free trial is available from here:
http://www.replay-radio.com
Enjoy!
Only works for Windows, Bill. I’m a Mac person.
Only works for Windows, Bill. I’m a Mac person.
Apparently, podcasting has made public radio listenership double. Impressive. I’m a big fan of public radio, and you might be happy to know that more and more shows are coming online that you might like. Plus, they come to you, just like blogs and such. PublicRadioFeeds.com is a site by someone IN public radio… We aren’t even a year into podcasting and it’s got this kind of traction. It’s beautiful.
And Adam’s show is not the end-all, be-all. There are so many niche shows out there that are really good (A radio show on Wine… where else could I hear that?)
In fact, I think I have some old Kevin Smokler podcasts laying around…. I might listen to those again. 😉
Apparently, podcasting has made public radio listenership double. Impressive. I’m a big fan of public radio, and you might be happy to know that more and more shows are coming online that you might like. Plus, they come to you, just like blogs and such. PublicRadioFeeds.com is a site by someone IN public radio… We aren’t even a year into podcasting and it’s got this kind of traction. It’s beautiful.
And Adam’s show is not the end-all, be-all. There are so many niche shows out there that are really good (A radio show on Wine… where else could I hear that?)
In fact, I think I have some old Kevin Smokler podcasts laying around…. I might listen to those again. 😉