PopCatcher Records Songs Off Radio, Deletes Commercials and Speech
Saturday January 27, 2007
A Swedish company has created a device called PopCatcher and describes it this way: "PopCatcher captures individual songs from a radio broadcast, without commercials or speech. It thus addresses the main problem of mp3-players today, i.e. the time consuming task of locating and downloading songs from the Internet. Providing a radio with a PopCatcher functionality provides the user with simple and direct access to each song played on the radio, without violating copyright or other laws."
The PopCatcher technology "...distinguishes between music, speech and commercials in radio broadcasts." (Pictured: PopCatcher MusicDock MD-601. Photo Credit: © PopCatcher)
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Comments
the intempo rebel (europes version of popcatcher) is exelent and works as decribed. Although it does miss some jingles which are played just before a song starts. there is no sign of any dj chatter or adverts ( although 1 did slip through which was advertising a song) the popcatcher radio is a cheap way to avoid downloading the latest chart songs at £69.99 its well worth it.