>Pure are making a new DAB and Internet Radio. I have one of these (in a box just there, look). Next tonight, I'll be opening it and blogging the results on http://james.cridland.net/blog/
And this interesting bit: > > Crawford also said that there would be additional services coming > > online by the end of the year such as the ability to purchase a track > > direct from the radio as it was being played, and 'tagging', whereby > > additional information about an artist or track could be pushed to > > the online portal. Tagging is, in fact, part of the project that I and GCap Media are working on. I'll circulate the complete spec once it's updated in the next week or so. Eager Googlers might find an earlier version available on the web, but I'd like to keep my powder dry 'till the new version; it's changed quite a lot. > Oh and this may keep Dave happy: > > "We may later choose to expose the Linux platform fully, enabling > > others to add widgets and other extras. We didn't want to go with a > > closed, proprietary system." In fact, I spoke to someone from Pure during the launch. The processor is dual-threaded (at least); one thread runs the Linux platform (kernel 2.6 by the way), one thread runs a Pure proprietary OS. The Linux portion will be open source (i.e. you can download the source code). I've no idea how to do a firmware upgrade yourself, mind; it gets its firmware upgrades via wifi, so the opportunity for fiddling might be limited. But it's not quite as open as you might think; and I'm unclear which bit does what. (Apparently the "interesting" bit is proprietary). My little team in the BBC will shortly publish a recipe for making your own internet radio, by the way, which is totally open source; watch the Radio Labs blog. It's considerably more expensive than the Pure one though, at over £350. Now, let me open the box and start playing. ;) -- http://james.cridland.net/ Media UK - http://www.mediauk.com/ - the UK's independent media directory http://www.mediauk.com/advertise | http://notatallbad.ltd.uk/legal_info/
