Radio

I have a 98 Grand Prix with the factory cd player & radio. I haven’t installed anything yet but was wondering if I was going to need a wire connection to my radio or if the wireless will work. Also will my magnet antenna work on my front windshield? I assume it will but with less quality reception.

Your radio will be fine with the wireless fm signal that comes from sirius units but nobody gets good sound from using that. Definitely buy the optional RF Modulator to get a direct line into your radio for the true digital sound. Its only like $30 but sounds 100 times better. And if you’re talking about your sirius antenna on your windshield it will sound perfect, thats where mine was on my grand am.

I just upgraded to a new PC. I had this toolbar for Internet Explorer on my old PC that played Classical Music radio and streams. Had some classical music torrents on it. But, I have searched for it and can not remember where I downloaded it from.

I tried a number of different keyword searches, but couldn’t find it. Does anyone know what I am talking about?

Is this what you are talking about?

http://classicalmusicradio.myradiotoolbar.com/

There are a couple of these out there, but this is the only one that seems to have torrents and MP3’s.

The radio scrolls but is too old to have the analog display. Will it still link up with the same station as an FM transmitter?

Theoretically yes. FM hasn’t changed any since then. The challenge may be finding it… best wishes…

I want a station that’ll play the isley bro., earth, wind and fire, temptations, heatwave, etc

I’m assuming you want to listen on the Internet, so try this web site:

http://www.oldies100.com/main.html

I have been looking into ways to do some kind of "online radio" for my school, and Live365 looks good cause it covers the royalty fees but then again it doesn’t permit clubs to control the station (we figured we’d break that rule, not make it obvious of course). Podcasting overall looked better though because people can download it and listen to it freely without commercials, but it does not cover royalty fees. But for now I want to know what you prefer, and any advice is greatly appreciated.

podcasts, especially ones like this:

http://hmhtp.podomatic.com/

If I buy a internet radio receiver from Target or any other store, do I have to pay a internet subscription just to listen to internet radio channels on my internet radio? If so im switiching to internet radio from satellite radio.

No =) I use pandora… there is plenty of websites out there that will take your interests and put them into a playlist. Then you can say if you like that song or not. So basically it is like having your own personal radio— for free! =) yay

I am attempting broadcast a live, online talk radio show using Windows Media Encoder, but I have no idea how it works, where the broadcast goes online, etc. Can anyone give me step by step instructions?

i don’t think you can

I just want to know if anyone know about radio station there is radio station in the net from my country in farsi language and I want to transfer it in the real station to people can listen it in the radio.
How should I do???

You can’t do that, unless you get an FM transmitter and connect it to your computer. Problem with that is that the range of the transmitter is very, very small and only has a 15 foot range, I believe.

(NOTE: This question is nothing to do with the content of the different stations). As a Radio 4 listener, I have noticed that the acoustic quality of sound, specifically speech, seems poorer on Radio 1 and, to a lesser extent, Radio 2 than it is on Radio 3 and 4 (I am not referring to the presenter’s accents etc.). Is the BBC using inferior equipment or perhaps "dumbing down" the sound to give a pirate radio feel in order to attract younger listeners?

It’s probably due to compression of the dynamic range (companding) that is used to give a "bigger" sound to the station. This process is VERY evident (and intrusive, to me,) on Radio 1, but less-so Radio 2. Radio 3 would balk at such a travesty, whilst Radio 4, being all (well. mostly) speech does not need to use it much.

Companding entails raising the amplitude of quiet sections of programme feed so that they are easier to pick out amongst ambient noise around a listener (e.g. in a car). It is a useful process that can enhance marginal communications channels, but its use in entertainment broadcasts is questionable. (Perhaps I should say its OVER use…)

We have a workgroup with about 30 local workstations, and 2 VPNs with about 4 users on each (remotely) we’re hosting an exchange server, the 2 VPN connections, and general browsing and email. Would it be a bad idea to open up internet radio streaming to the users?

We have (2) T1’s for a total of 3MBx3MB. I would like to allow users to stream radio at their desks, but would it consume too much bandwidth?

Thanks.

Streaming media storage size (in the common file system measurements megabytes, gigabytes, terabytes, and so on) is calculated from streaming bandwidth and length of the media with the following formula (for a single user and file):

Storage size (in megabytes) = length (in seconds) · bit rate (in kbit/s) / 8,388.608 (since 1 megabyte = 8 * 1,048,576 bits = 8,388.608 kilobits)

Real world example:

One hour of video encoded at 300 kbit/s ( a typical broadband video) encoded in a 320×240 pixels window size) will be:

(3,600 s · 300 kbit/s) / 8,388.608 = 128.7 MiB of storage

If the file is stored on a server for on-demand streaming and this stream is viewed by 1,000 people using a Unicast protocol, you would need

300 kbit/s · 1,000 = 300,000 kbit/s = 300 Mbit/s of bandwidth

This is equivalent to 125.73 GiB per hour. Of course, using a Multicast protocol the server sends out only a single stream that is common to all users. Hence, such a stream would only use 300 kbit/s of bandwidth.