> "Sky.fm, RadioIO, SomaFM, DI.com, BBC, Virgin"
are also available from Reciva.

However, the original questioner already has a Squeezebox - so this did
not seem to be a question about using a Reciva-based device instead of a
Squeezebox - but asking if the list of stations/podcasts/on-demand
content could be made available.

An example of a difference between the two approaches is that the
Reciva database of radio stations is searchable/browsable within a
genre or country across the complete list of radio stations - whereas
the Slim approach is to start from a station list provider (unless
there is something I missed that aggregates across the different
sources).

I wonder though - how many people, once the first couple of months of
use has passed, really go on pseudo-random searches across the station
list.
If you want to play genre-based music then I expect that people home in
a small number of the stations that they find they like ... and add them
as favourites/presets.

I suspect that the usage patterns for the different vendors equipment
are different - with most Squeeze users tending to spend more listening
hours with their own collection and Reciva-based users tending to spend
more time using internet radio.

My own use ... couple of SB2 that are used mainly to listen to locally
stored music and a couple of Reciva-based devices for simple internet
radio listening. In fact, I started to write a few words about it in
http://dabdig.blogspot.com (next chapter is in draft - and it will talk
about why I came to add a Reciva-based device into the home mix)


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Paul Webster

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