Down goes radio

[Cloud]

I find most of my music these days just by surfing Amazon and the iTunes store.

[ZenGum]

What happens when we cross this thread with the Net Neutrality thread? And then with the Congress has Lost Its Mind thread?

Please take the blue pill now.

[Gravdigr]

Originally Posted by Griff

Get ye to http://www.pandora.com if you are not already aboard. You'll find new or different music you like.

I tried that once a while back, I may give it another try...Thanks for the tip.

[xoxoxoBruce]

Great, put it all in my car, distract the hell out of me, so I can forget little annoyances...










like fucking driving.

[Cloud]

hmm, I don't really feel distracted by music while driving.

In fact, having music on your ipod or whatever I think would make for less distraction, as you have continuous music of your own choice without ads etc., so you're not constantly fiddling with the dials changing the station.

Like it or not though, all new cars will have more and more of this music and other technology to play with. They're coming out now with text blockers and stuff for teenagers.

[xoxoxoBruce]

Listening to music isn't a problem, except some music may cause you to drive faster or slower than normal. Listening to talk radio, you're mileage may vary.
But bringing the internet, with all it's distractions, is crazy.

[Cloud]

oh, yeah, on that I agree. can't be posting on da cella when driving; no!

[mbpark]

UT is right.

The average (not smartphone) cell phone is now powerful enough and gets enough of a signal to carry decent stereo sound to a car. There are millions of iDevices, Android phones, Blackberries, and other vendors' devices that are capable of handling the signal. The security is good enough to handle streaming these days.

The other thing to remember is that Howard owns the rights to his back catalog. He has over 20 years to offer. If he could offer THAT on demand with an app, I would sign up immediately (not like I won't already since I do own a Sirius radio and subscribe to Howard TV). When I don't want to hear Sal & Richard's Latest Gay Stunt, Scott DePace is Superior and Conservative, or Ronnie Embarrasses Himself at Rick's Again, I want to be able to hear old bits like every Sam Kinison appearance, Butt Cheeks Fever, LoJackie, or any Hank, the Angry Drunken Dwarf bit.

Radio's been dead for years, except for sports, news, and religious programming. The Internet has finally gotten to the point where it can replace the radio in your car.

Howard really hasn't been that funny the past two or three years and relies too much on shitty writers like Benji, Sal, and Richard who rehash the same stuff, and he doesn't have Artie Lange waiting to self-destruct all the time anymore. However, he has over 20 years of the funniest radio ever to stream. If he offers that, he'll get millions of subscribers who want to hear those bits.

I hope that there's more to come from Howard, Fred, and Robin (and hopefully Bababooey, JD, Will, and a few others) on the Internet. I hope Scott DePace loses his job and gets stuck on the worst morning TV show possible, or gets stuck hawking his golf camera clamp at county fairs next to the freak shows.

[Undertoad]

I'm wagering that the entire archive will be available. Jeff Jarvis has seen Howard's technology back-end, and said the whole shebang is on SANs in an office outside of Sirius, and backed up at Howard's beach house. My theory is that Howard has known and been planning for this possibility for a long time. It may even be why the show hasn't been so entirely awesome -- harder to be motivated when the end is in sight and something more exciting is around the corner. He hinted at the Internet once in April! I would not be surprised to find out that the "renovations" at the Manhattan apartment were to put in a complete studio.

Originally Posted by Jarvis

Start with Stern technology: Schick said they they digitize everything — every show, every bit of audio, every press clipping, even everything sent into the show. They scan all the fan mail. They scan dildoes. This adds up to 100 terabytes of data. That’s stored at Howard’s office in New York (outside Sirius) — which is in addition to the audio that’s stored, of course, at Sirius (and backed up in New Jersey), and in addition to the video archives. Howard’s own 100tb is backed up at Howard’s beach house. Howard’s office has a T1 and business-class cable and a direct link to Howard’s apartment, which also has business-class cable, like his beach house (which has CAT5 cable in every all and multiple wi-fi networks for Howard and guests). Serious shit.

On air, I asked Howard whether all this means that fans will someday have access to it. He said yes.

[mbpark]

Howard has been at the forefront of technology for years. Having everything on redundant IBM (because he loves IBM technology and has for years...he does still run Lotus Notes and has kept Jeff Schick around for at least 20 years) SANs would be just like him. He had a Treo when the entire world had RAZR phones.

At this point, I would not be surprised if he was running fiber between those locations. He can afford it, and backing up 100TB takes a $1M+ tape drive setup (we have one at work - a Quantum ADIC with 36 drives) and a lot of fiber (we have that too). Business-class cable is still not good enough to handle that amount of data. I can fit 100TB in a 42U rack and have space left over, even with an EMC these days (we just did that for a project). You can fit a small EMC or IBM SAN and the supporting equipment in a small room.

I can imagine that they make Sal & Richard scan the dildos, since they like that stuff. Somehow I don't see Boy Gary doing that anymore.

I can also imagine that Howard encrypts all of it, probably with the Brocade switches.

[mbpark]

and I bet the location in NJ is one of the datacenters there that the Wall Street firms also use. Howard is not one to skimp on what matters.

And, F Jackie!

[Undertoad]

xoB, it should be as easy as: you put your phone in a mount, you push an icon on the display, audio starts playing. At most you have to insert a 1/8" jack.

It should be a better user interface than the common car stereo is these days. The designers at Clarion want us to die in a fiery crash:



That's seven buttons in a circle, which you can't identify by feel. The "menu" button will bring up a complicated display that you have to look at to operate. Then there are eight buttons along the bottom, which you can't identify by feel. There appears to be no pause button, or if there is, they've hidden it really well. From here it looks like if you want to stop playing something, you have to hit the middle button for longer than a second, turning the entire thing off.

[Cloud]

I'm reading that putting your music on a flash drive and plugging it into a USB port in your car works really well. But how exactly does that work? Can you load music from iTunes onto a flash drive, does anyone know?

[Undertoad]

It depends on the format. If you bought it as MP3, just right click on what you want to copy and browse it in your file browser, windows explorer or whatever it is you use, and you can drag n drop it to a flash drive or sd card or not-Pod player.

If you bought it in Apple's restricted format, then you can only use an iPod I guess.

[squirell nutkin]

I was going to post a pic of a headsup display, but BMW has beat me to it, and ogne one further. In addition to heads up display they also have night vision. Probably left over first generation crap, but still cool: