Comments on: Internet radio vs. Satellite radio – which one should you invest in?

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By: William

William — Sun, 18 Oct 2009 21:33:25 +0000

I just saw an ad for a $120 device that hooks up to an iPhone to make it a car-ready satellite radio receiver, which prompted me to do a search ultimately dropping me off here.

With the iPhone, the competition is basically over. There are already at least three free applications for the phone that stream high quality, custom radio stations straight to you. Last.fm, Pandora Mobil and Imeem Mobil. No interruptions, no breaks. In fact, you can even give them feedback about what you like, so songs you don't like never come on again.

I was puzzled when I saw the ad for the satellite radio adapter. Someone's got to be really out of the loop to go for that.

By: William

William — Sun, 18 Oct 2009 17:33:25 +0000

By: last.fm is now dead to me | burning the bacon with barrett

last.fm is now dead to me | burning the bacon with barrett — Mon, 30 Mar 2009 11:35:02 +0000

[...] I had really grown to appreciate & love my last.fm both at work every day and on my iphone as a downloadable widget. It even inspired me to write a blog article on internet radio vs. satellite radio. [...]

By: Jenny

Jenny — Fri, 23 Jan 2009 21:15:04 +0000

I noticed that you mentioned the XMp3 (or XM) on your blog.

I work for an agency on behalf of XM Canada and thought you and your readers may be interested in this Offer:

With the purchase of an XMp3 portable satellite radio you will receive a $50 service credit and a free SD card.

To check this out go to: http://www.xmradio.ca/xmp3offer.

By: Jenny

Jenny — Fri, 23 Jan 2009 21:15:00 +0000

I noticed that you mentioned the XMp3 (or XM) on your blog.

I work for an agency on behalf of XM Canada and thought you and your readers may be interested in this Offer:

With the purchase of an XMp3 portable satellite radio you will receive a $50 service credit and a free SD card.

To check this out go to: http://www.xmradio.ca/xmp3offer.

By: Phil Barrett

Phil Barrett — Wed, 14 Jan 2009 22:02:02 +0000

Bill’s in the U.S. are mostly irrelevant as there great internet radio stations based all around the world. Some of my favorite are UK based.

Also interesting to note since the original post is Apple’s decision to drop their copywrite protection on itunes.

By: Phil Barrett

Phil Barrett — Wed, 14 Jan 2009 22:02:00 +0000

Bill’s in the U.S. are mostly irrelevant as there great internet radio stations based all around the world. Some of my favorite are UK based.

Also interesting to note since the original post is Apple’s decision to drop their copywrite protection on itunes.

By: larry Hammond

larry Hammond — Fri, 09 Jan 2009 17:23:29 +0000

I’ve been using Yahoo Music (formerly launchcast) for years, for all the reasons you outlined. Not only do I never hear a Britney Spears or Katy Perry song again, I still get NEW music introduced in to the mix based on a combination of genre selection and the ratings of people with similar ratings profiles as mine. The more we all rate music, the more accurate the system is at predicting my likes and dislikes.
What’s also great about internet radio is that it is genre agnostic. I often get served some Enya followed by some Violent Femmes, followed by Goldfrapp. It’s like listening to my MP3 player, only I hear new music too. It’s perfect!
Having said that, I too looked at satellite radio a few years ago. With hundreds of stations, there must be atleast a few that would cater to some of my more obscure musical tastes. I was very disappointed by the selection, however. As parodied on The Simpsons, you have 200 stations, but that works out to 15 pop rock, 12 country and western, 120 talk radio, etc. It was all mainstream. Even attaching the prefix ‘alternative’ to a genre didn’t cut it. Even the Cable radio stations on my TV offered more selection!
I blame the number crunchers, who read the market research wrong. They based the genre selection based on what people listen to on traditional radio. What they failed to do was see that audience numbers in traditional radio have been dropping like crazy. So a fewer and fewer percent of us actually bother listening to the radio, and the rest of us have found other sources of music. What they should have done is polled what EVERYONE listened to, and they would have found huge pockets of international, truly alternative subculture and indi music. These still seem to be missing on the satellite music roster. Instead, they’re chasing after a diminishing market as immigration and the internet continue to diversify people’s musical tastes that aren’t reflected on traditional radio, and hence on traditional radio research.
But Internet radio is facing a new hurdle, in the form of talent rights. A recent bill passed in the US is forcing online radio stations to pay the artists for streaming their music. Sounds reasonable, except it messes up their business model, and these sites are dropping like flies because they can’t afford to pay up. Yahoo music might be the next to go.
So ya, the idea of getting my internet radio in my car, or through my smart phone would be the ideal. It would might even replace my MP3 use. IF they can make it work.
I wouldn’t count on Rogers or Bell to offer the bandwidth though, because it opens up another problem that maybe you’d like to address in a new post… VOIP on your smartphone.

By: larry Hammond

larry Hammond — Fri, 09 Jan 2009 17:23:00 +0000