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pandora
Pandora Agreement Saves Internet Radio
Fans of internet radio can breathe a little easier today now that Pandora has reached an agreement with the music industry that puts it on secure ground for the foreseeable future. More »
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By Sean FallonComment by Log1c: Wait fuck that. I'll kill my free 40 hours within the week! Argh.. I guess a whole dollar isn't much, but... 9 Responses | Other threads
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online music
Pandora's New Subscription Service: Desktop App, HQ Streaming, and NO ADS
Pandora's old pay service was nothing to write home about; or more accurately, it was nothing to pay for. Pandora One, their new, $36/y premium option, at least tries to give you your money's worth. More »
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By John HerrmanComment by Brandon Friend-Solis: um, $36/y is $3 a month, not $2. still worth it though 6 Responses | Other threads
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streaming radio
Last.fm Silences Third-Party Mobile Apps
Hot off an announcement that they'd be charging for radio access outside the US, UK and Germany, Last.fm has said that all non-official mobile clients will be banned. This isn't going over well. More » -
vudu
Vudu Players Can Now Stream Pandora Internet Radio
Vudu expanded upon its Rich Internet Application (RIA) platform today with a little music, as the popular, personalized Pandora Internet radio service is now immediately available to customers. More »
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By Jack LoftusComment by Bearded Rapper: @Jason Chen: Did you really fake yourself to be Jason Chen to do that? Sadass. 2 Responses | Other threads
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diy
How to Make a Wi-Fi Internet Radio Classy (Stuff It Inside a Vintage Radio)
Wi-Fi internet radios are usually more function than form oriented, their plastic and metal bodies lacking the elegance or charm of a vintage radio. Solution: Reanimate a classy vintage corpse with a modern soul. More »
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Comment by soulfinger: They could have chosen a cooler retro radio to stuff it in. That's not one of the better ones I've... more » | Other threads
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internet radio
Slacker Internet Radio Now Available On BlackBerry Storm
The BlackBerry Storm is no longer left out of the free streaming web radio crowd—a Storm-tuned Slacker app can now be yours. More » -
pandora
We Now Interrupt Pandora Radio For This Brief Message, Every So Often
Everybody's favorite web- and iPhone-streaming internet radio service Pandora is now getting brief 15-second audio commercials sprinkled into its free playlists. More »
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By John MahoneyComment by lilaliendog: 15 seconds every so often will turn to every once in a while then every few songs then every other... 8 Responses | Other threads
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app store
Slacker Radio Now Available for the iPhone
We knew it was coming, but now the Slacker internet radio app is officially available on the iPhone. More »
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By Sean FallonComment by kamikaze: so which is better, Slacker or Pandora?? and why? 8 Responses | Other threads
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iphone apps
Pandora iPhone App Hits 2.0, Gets Even Snazzier
Pandora's personalized internet radio player is one of our favorite iPhone apps—and tonight it got better, adding a snazzy Coverflow-like song history, bookmark previewing, in-line artist bios and a playback progress bar (finally). More »
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ces 2009
World's First Internet Car Radio Would Go Perfectly in KITT's Dashboard
Satellite radio is dead. The world's first internet car radio, from Blaupunkt and miRoamer delivers thousands of internet stations integrated with a standard AM/FM/CD dash console worthy of KITT. More »
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Comment by nganeer: ...and who pays for these 1000's of channels? Is it free? Nothing is free ultimately. ...and more importantly, how fast will... 4 Responses | Other threads
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pandora
Pandora Radio Now Available on Select WinMo Phones
Pandora's free internet radio service is now streaming personalized music to WinMo devices—well, the Motorola Q9c and HTC XV6900 on Verizon and the Motorola Q9c and HTC Touch on Sprint anyway. More » -
internet radio
Sanyo R227 Internet Radio, Perfect Use for the Neighbor's Wi-Fi
The Sanyo R227 isn't an entirely new product, but it's new to us in the US. A Wi-Fi-based radio, the R227 allows users to scan for internet music just like they would FM.
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By Mark WilsonComment by Wess: I had to take a double take on the Black & Decker post [gizmodo.com] thinking that this was the radio... 2 Responses | Other threads
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pandora
Pandora Web Radio Goodness Now Playing On Chumby
Everyone's favorite music-genome-powered web radio service Pandora is now officially available on everyone's favorite ambiguous-use plush-paneled Linux appliance, the Chumby. Fitting of their strategy to be on every hardware platform possible, Pandora can now provide soothing wakeup tunes (major key tonality, mild rhythmic syncopation, a good dose of acoustic guitar pickin') via Chumby's own alarm clock before you smash its vulnerable soft parts and go back to sleep. Full release following. More »
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By John MahoneyComment by bxstrb: I'd buy a Chumby...if it was $99. With my cellphone being able to do all the stuff this thing does... 1 Responses | Other threads
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reviews
Lightning Review: Slacker G2 Portable Radio
The Gadget: Slacker G2, a slimmer, updated version of the original Slacker portable internet radio player. More »
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Comment by Darkest Daze: BDP! Am I dating myself by actually knowing who they are? Reminds me, I need to find my KRS-One CD's. 3 Responses | Other threads
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music
Slacker Internet Radio Comes to BlackBerry for Lazy-Ass Music Lovers
Slacker, the Pandora-esque internet radio service, will release a free app for BlackBerry phones next month. It's remarkably similar to their own hardware—users choose pre-programmed stations or build their own, and songs are downloaded directly to the phone's memory card, so they don't require Wi-Fi or a cell connection to play. Telling Slacker what songs you like and don't like tailors the stations to your tastes, almost like getting a Genius Playlist of songs you don't have to pay for or otherwise acquire. Up to 8GB of free music that changes all the time? Almost sounds too good to be true. [Slacker] -
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Microsoft Working on "Vi-Fi": Brings Seamless Internet and VoIP to Vehicles
As if you didn't already spend enough time on the internet, Microsoft is looking to feed your addiction even further by developing a reliable "Vi-Fi" system for automobiles. The major problem that must be overcome is the fact that current Wi-Fi networks suffer hiccups in service as you pass through. This is especially true when moving out of the range of one base station and into another. To smooth the transition process, Microsoft and a team from the University of Massachusetts are working on building a network based around a base station anchor that is backed up by several auxiliary base stations in the area. More »
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By Sean FallonComment by Junginator: Yes, because we need more self absorbed jerks on the road doing other things besides driving. 9 Responses | Other threads
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riaa
Pandora Internet Radio Can't Take Royalty Rates, Will Likely Close the Box
Pandora, the internet radio station built around your tastes, will probably be going out of business soon. After getting slapped by the CRB with exorbitantly high royalty rates to continue playing music, founder Tim Westergren says the company is facing a "pull-the-plug" situation. There's one congressman trying to help Pandora and it's million plus users, but the service is bleeding money in the meantime and its future looks grim. I'll be very sad to see it go, since being reintroduced to it recently through their excellent iPhone app. What great idea do you have for us next, CRB? [ReadWriteWeb] -
lightning review
Lightning Review: Aluratek Wi-Fi Internet Radio Alarm Clock
The Gadget: A Wi-Fi internet radio alarm clock from Aluratek, with over 11,000 free stations worldwide. More » -
design
Iona Radio Cube Means You Physically Flip Through Stations
This Wi-Fi radio concept design from Cambridge Consultants is a rubber-edged plastic cube. Four of the sides are assigned your four favorite stations via a web interface (maybe some of you have more, but frankly, I think four about covers it for me). The minute some annoying commercial or crap song starts playing, you just roll the Iona over to the next channel. Gizmag says adjusting volume requires twisting the cube itself to the right (up) or left (down), though I'm not entirely sure what that means. The fifth side houses a mono speaker, and the sixth has a non-roly-poly on-off switch. [Gizmag via Ubergizmo] -
slacker
Slacker Streaming Net Radio Player Limited Trial Units In the Wild
We just talked to the guys at Slacker who told us that they've offered trial test units to people who've pre-ordered. Here's our hands-on video from November in case you wanted to see what the thing was all about. [Slacker]
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By Jason ChenComment by strider_mt2k: @Libb: I really couldn't have said it any better myself. If only Sirius let me put custom artist stations together! I wish... more » | Other threads
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soundexchange
Everyone now and then, politicians do offer a glimmer of hope: Senators Sam Brownback (R-KS) and Ron Wyden (D-OR) wag their fingers at SoundExchange for using royalty negotiations as leverage to push DRM on webcasters. [Ars Technica] -
surprise, surprise
SoundExchange Possibly Overstepping Its Bounds With Illegal Lobbying
It looks like internet radio's favorite fee-collection organization, SoundExchange, might be playing hard and fast with legal limits on how it can spend collected money. Not on the list of three kosher uses (full legal mumbo-jumbo post-jump) is lobbying and PR. But Listening Post's Eliot Van Buskirk noticed that it appears to be engaged in both. More »
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one step forward, two steps back
Internet Radio May Survive, But Only With Lots of DRM
The imminent death of internet radio due to unreasonable licensing and fee hikes might not be so imminent, at least as long as radio stations are willing to pile the DRM onto their streams as demanded by SoundExchange. Wanting to end the practice of "streamripping," the equivalent of the fair-use-sanctioned practice of taping songs off FM radio, SoundExchange is hinging their compromise proposal on the adoption of DRM technologies by all internet radio stations. It's good news that there's a better chance of stations staying on the air, but the fact that they need to inhibit fair use to do so is pretty weak. [Ars Technica]
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By Adam FrucciComment by deathbychichi: Sound Exchange is the worst. Even if you execute a written agreement with the station disclaiming all royalties for... more » | Other threads
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field notes
Tivoli Audio Introduces NetWorks and NetWorksGo Wi-Fi Internet Radios
Today in New York, Tivoli Audio founder Tom DeVesto unveiled plans, what he called "five years worth of work," for two Internet radios modeled after the company's successful Kloss Model One and SongBook radios. The Kloss Model One look-alike will be called NetWorks, and the SongBook-styled one, shown above, will be the NetWorksGo. Price has not been announced, nor has a ship date, but the company is aiming for this fall. More » -
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Attention DC-Area Giz Readers: SaveNetRadio Rally Tonight
Bored on a Monday night in our nation's capital? Tonight you can stop on by Upper Senate Park at Constitution and Delaware Avenues at around 6:30pm for a rally to save Internet radio from destitution at the hands of the money-hungry Copyright Royalty Board. If you haven't kept up with the controversy but you do desperately feel the need to get in good with the technohippie set, you can brush up on it with our backlinks. Just be sure to memorize the rallying song: "All we are saying, is give House Resolution 2060 and Senate Bill 1353 calling for a 2006-2010 royalty rate similar to that paid by satellite radio (7.5% of revenue) a chance." More » -
breaking
Pandora Hits Sprint Phones and Sonos Remotes
Right at this moment, a bunch of music fans are sitting in rows at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art's Wattis Theater, eagerly awaiting the fate of Pandora, the cult-hit semi-customizable Internet radio service. What are they about to hear? That Pandora is teaming up with Sprint and Sonos to get into mobile and household gadgets, and is also introducing a new online interface for the free service. Why should you care? Mobile Net radio has been in the non-existent to sucky range, and a lot of people enjoy Pandora in Web form. At least until Slacker's many promises are realized, this is the biggest step in mobilizing Net radio to date. More » -
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Senate Introduces Net-Radio Bill; Pandora Asks Giz Readers to Keep Bugging Congress
The Senate today introduced a bill to prevent outlandish increases in net-radio royalties, a companion to the bill proposed by the House of Representatives last month. I decided to check in with Pandora's founder Tim Westergren again to see how he and his fellow webcasters got such sudden political clout. More » -
from the government-backed-mafia dept.
SoundExchange Collects Internet Radio Royalties for Every Artist, Even Non-Members
Amidst the uproar over the egregious royalty rate hike for internet radio stations, engineered by RIAA-spinoff SoundExchange and handed down by the Copyright Royalty Board, we missed a detail we should have noticed. Some commenters suggested simply listening to music under non-restrictive licenses. But apparently that won't work."The recent U.S. Copyright Office ruling regarding webcasting designated SoundExchange to collect and distribute to all nonmembers as well as its members. The Librarian of Congress issued his decision with rates and terms to govern the compulsory license for webcasters (Internet-only radio) and simulcastors (retransmissions)."
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Comment by rasti: agree@hybrid8 Totally agree, you can run your internet radio startup from... India? Then RIAA will threat sue or block the stations... more » | Other threads
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save the music
Proposed House Bill Kills Internet Radio Royalty Rate Hike
A new bill in the House sponsored by Reps. Jay Inslee and Donald Manzullo, dubbed the "Internet Radio Equality Act," would neuter the CRB's much-maligned royalty rate hike, setting rates at 7.5 percent of revenue—the same rate satellite radio broadcasters are charged. The new rate would be in effect from 2006 to 2010 and would be assessed according to the same standards as satellite radio. More » -
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Pandora Co-Founder Gives Two Reasons Why Royalty Decision Sucks
We asked Pandora's co-founder, Tim Westergren, if he would like to discuss the decision of the Library of Congress's Copyright Royalty Board to uphold its decision to charge new crippling rates to Web-based broadcasters like Pandora. Tim responded: "I think there are two main points that would be great to make, both regarding dangerous perceptions floating around right now." More » -
internet radio
Internet Radio Rebellion Crushed: CRB Upholds Royalty Rate Hike
NPR's and other webcasters' efforts to roll back the crippling royalty rate hike for Internet radio stations have been gutted. A panel of judges at the Copyright Royalty Board denied their appeal, holding up "the original CRB decision in every respect," though a slight reprieve was granted in allowing stations to pay royalties based on "average listening hours" rather than per play through 2008. More » -
riaa
NPR Says F$%! the RIAA, Albeit in an Erudite, Strongly Worded Letter After Some Tea
NPR isn't taking too kindly to the Sound Exchange-drafted royalty rate hike for internet radio stations. The burn? The new rates are "at least 20 times more than what stations have paid in the past" and treats public radio "as if [it] were commercial radio," though it's unable to bring in extra revenue to meet higher costs. More » -
home entertainment
Yet Another Reason to Boycott the RIAA
The Copyright Royalty Board has decided to accept the "per play" royalty rates proposed for internet radio channels by the RIAA's digital musicextortionfee collection organization, Sound Exchange, despite protests by webcasters. More » -
home entertainment
Acoustic Energy WiFi Internet Radio Tunes in Stations Around the World
The Acoustic Energy WiFi Internet Radio links up with your wireless network and communicates directly with the Web, sucking up practically any Internet radio station in the world. There are 5000 stations already preprogrammed, and then you can add your favorites. And heck, you don't even need your PC to join in the fun. More »
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