I haven't yet read the article, but I have been using the service. One difference here is that DAR.fm is doing the recording for you - with the result dropped into your MP3Tunes on-line storage. So those who do not want to fiddle around with software or have their PC on this presents something that could be useful.
I have been using it for a few months and it has worked as advertised for me - including playing back the recorded shows via my Reciva-based radio through it's integrated MP3Tunes support (Logitech Squeezebox and one or two others also support it). DAR.fm also has a simple web-based API that allows you to give it a start time, duration and stream URL and it then tries to do the recording - so the size of their station database becomes less of an issue. See http://www.radiofeeds.co.uk for an example of that API being used. But, in any case, expect to see the database grow rapidly. There are potential issues for broadcasters of course - for example ... here in UK the basic licence for streaming radio explicitly requires recording to be blocked. While such a thing is hard (if not impossible) to do it does mean that many Internet radio stations will find it hard to endorse DAR.fm service and should ask to be put on the "blocked" list (although I suspect that they will not). It also means that the broadcaster will not know the true IP address of the listener - which could mess up some of their reporting and stats. However, there would have to be a lot of DAR users before that becomes significant. I presume that, for now at least, DAR records from USA - so geo-blocked stations in Europe won't work ... but it does mean that people outside USA could probably could probably record geo-blocked USA stuff. It is going to cost DAR a lot in streaming and storage costs (DAR and MP3Tunes are from same owner) so will be interesting to see if they find a revenue generation model apart from people paying to upgrade their on-line storage capacity. Might also cost in legal fees and hassle in defending the proposition against complaints from broadcasters and music industry - but Michael Robertson seems convinced that the approach is legal. Paul Webster On 26 May 2011, at 05:10, [email protected] wrote: > Meh...1,800 stations? Radioshift for the Mac from Rogue Amoeba covers over > 50,000 (from the TuneIn, formerly RadioTime, directory) listings, and can > record anything you desire and send it to your iTunes account, if you wish. > > Also, isn't the Stitcher app already doing exactly what DAR.fm promises, save > for the song ID and breaks? > > Cool that Pogue is talking about this subject, though! > > -- John, listening to KPOA in Maui ~ ~ "Island Sounds, Island Wide" > > > ------------------ > John Sullivan > Raleigh, NC > > Message sent from my magical and revolutionary iPad 2 > > On May 25, 2011, at 11:33 PM, Richard Cuff <[email protected]> wrote: > >> http://www.nytimes.com/2011/05/26/technology/personaltech/26pogue.html?_r=1&src=dayp >> >> I will be checking this out.... >> >> RC >> >> -- >> Richard Cuff / Allentown, PA USA > > _______________________________________________ > Internetradio mailing list > [email protected] > http://montreal.kotalampi.com/mailman/listinfo/internetradio > > To unsubscribe: Send an E-mail to > [email protected]?subject=unsubscribe, or visit the URL > shown above. > > _______________________________________________ Internetradio mailing list [email protected] http://montreal.kotalampi.com/mailman/listinfo/internetradio To unsubscribe: Send an E-mail to [email protected]?subject=unsubscribe, or visit the URL shown above.
