Radio in the cloud: Do we want to TiVo our radio?

vs DAB radio?

My Pure Bug radio has lets me select programmes from its internal EPG and record them to an SD card. I can set weekly or daily schedules so I don't miss regular programmes and don't have to mess around with podcasts or iPlayer.

So it's nothing new.

In one ear and out the other?

Nonsense! I listen to specific programmes on the radio just as I do on the television. The only difference is that I might leave the radio on until something forces me to turn it off, such as a pre-recorded trail.

It seems absurd that just about every non-portable video recorder, be it a VCR, PVR or whatever, has a built-in tuner (or two) with the ability to record programmes unattended, but sound recorders (tape, cassette, DAT, minidisc, flash, ...) invariably never had such capabilities. Only when radio and tv came together in DVB-T was it possible easily to record radio. I could do it by scheduling my Sony Beta Hi-Fi machine to record audio from the external input and leaving a tuner switched on and tuned in. No good if I wanted to record programmes from different stations.

el reg is like talking to your Grandpa

i love the register cause it's like talking to your grandpa

half the time he's sharing wisdom collected over the the last 80 years and half the time he's a crotchety old fart who doesn't fully grasp what's happening.

Andrew is one of my face authors. I flew to UK just to meet him.

It seems puzzling to ponder if people want all audio content I'm demand, interactively (rew, pause, and ff). Seems like a no-duh to me but I guess readerscan make up their own minds

I'll comment on just one aspect of his article. cloud recording has massive advantages over hardware and software solutions which require purchase, installation and maintenance. dar.fm is easy, cheaper and much more powerful. it takes just a few clicks to setup. no equipment needs to be left on. its much more powerful. go click record on classic rock section and watch 10 stations record simultaneously. and resulting recordings are automatically in the cloud so you can listen from any PC, smartphone, internet radio, and other devices like Roku video player. other solutions dump material on a PC drive somewhere. Cloud recording and storage will win for video, audio, text, everything. bet against the cloud at your own peril.

I know this. If I ever invent a company or service that Andrew applauds it will be worth billions or such a small geek niche it won't be worth the cost of the domain name.

-- mr

Michael Robertson

TiVo for radio?

I already have a TiVo for radio, it's called TiVo! I was using it last night to listen to a radio interview it had recorded for me, due to it knowing I was interested in the interviewee.