[Turning Canmephian] AOL Radio on iPod touch

[strredwolf]

So not only did I get my iPhone 3G, I upgraded the firmware on the iPod Touch.  Leo Laporte of TWiT just tweeted this:

AOL Radio on the iPhone is a killer app. Broadcast radio should be very afraid. CBS stations excepted - they're all there.

So I pulled the free app and tried it on the iPod Touch.  Four local FM and a AM station were found.  No NPR, but JACK is there, ESPN Radio's there (I didn't know we had a station here!), and WHFS.

In my Canmephian docs, I had envisioned that bandwidth was so large that radio gave up and streamed to the planetary Internet, with various cafes having dedicated repeaters to save the bandwidth (because it's finite).  AOL Radio is but that next step.  Broadcast radio is dying.

Comments

[caesarsalad77.livejournal.com]

If broadcast radio dies, perhaps the rather outdated FCC regulations will die with them.

[kesarra.livejournal.com]

Radio waves reach further than wifi.

[shadesfox.livejournal.com]

I don't know. Until pervasive wireless internet is a reality then broadcast will be fine.

[kazriko.livejournal.com]

A. What does this do to your 5 gig per month limit,
B. PSP has had this for quite awhile, you just need a wifi connection nearby.
C. I slurp down Realaudio talk radio streams on my linux box and push them to my psp and rockbox ipod as mp3s and oggs. The only thing keeping this from being mainstream is government and riaa crotchetiness, the old dinosaur codgers that they all are. Podcasts are considered downloads by the government idiocracy that governs music, and thus are prohibitively expensive to use music on.
D. Radio has been declared dead more times than any other medium aside from maybe books. It was dead when TV came along and replaced radio variety shows, it moved to music. AM radio was declared dead when FM radio stations came along, it moved to talk radio. It's been declared dead about satellite, CDs, Ipods, 8-tracks, cassettes, etc, yet it still lives.

I think the next step is for them to nail down digital radio so they can offer the same variety as the sat and ipods...

[strredwolf.livejournal.com]

A. We may actually abuse that 5 gig "limit" over 3G or Edge. Ether way, it doesn't count over wifi.
B. Same here, just do a Wifi connection.
C. That's an idea.
D. It's always dying. It hasn't finally kicked the bucket yet. We got to fix that.

[kazriko.livejournal.com]

Oh, we can abuse it here too over the old one, they just charge you by the kilobyte after that...

The only real reason to kill it would be if we can reclaim the bandwidth as ISM style wifi band.

[kesarra.livejournal.com]

It's also still kicking: http://designguide.dutchdesignlab.com/?p=75