Are you one of those people who can't wait for technology to catch up with you? If so, I'll bet you were figuring out ways to get Internet radio in your car a while ago. I want to know: How do YOU listen to Internet radio in your vehicle? Tell everyone about your solution - and maybe a few words on why it works for YOU.
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Everyone cranks on and on about internet radio, and now mobile internet radio. Like it’s gonna replace broadcast. Get this: A typical cellular radio transmitter cannot support more than a handful of internet radio streams at the same time. So you’re on driving the Beltway and 30 of you in a quarter mile stretch want to listen to Last.FM or Pandora or WXYZ. What happens? The feeds drop out, they restart, or more likely the celphone company kicks your connection out to make way for revenue-generating voice calls.
Wake up radio MDs and PDs and understand what your engineers are telling you – the internet is NOT scalable for mass listening, it can only ever deliver a small % of your cume. But more important is this for anyone thinking the internet is the future panacea: do you really want control over your entire station’s delivery method, and with it who can and can’t listen determined by third parties like Receiva or AT&T? On the internet, and particularly cellular, YOU can’t be sure YOUR station will ALWAYS be available like you can on FM and even HD. Get off this infatuation with internet. Yeah it is good for some stuff, sure, but it is not a replacement for broadcast. Let’s start talking UP broadcast again – one to many, never congests and under our control.
Don’t get carried away by the hype.
Which platform would you rather be on: the FM dial with 30 competitors or the internet with 10,000 competitors?
What manufacturers have boombox or tabletop radios with all radio broadcasts, hybrid digital HD radio, internet radio, both XM Sirius satellite radio, FM and AM radio.
I use a Bluetooth car stereo with A2DP (This was a goodmans i.e cheap unit & cost £69.99 from Argos) I pair the unit up with my Windows Mobile phone to stream our WMA feeds, also I’ve used other phone brands to stream in mp3 feeds from other stations, depending on your dataplan you can get very useful results this way … I ran a test stream that was almost FM quality at only 32k thru a WMA stream. I’ve also run a fast stream but on a phone capable of 3G reception … o2 in the UK seem to have the best data coverage, a journey from Essex to last years SBES radio exhibition in the Midlands was almost buffer free ! All good fun
I would like to see satellite internet signals sent to ground based receivers for car, etc. reception. Currently, I use Sirius or my Blackberry to receive radio broadcasts while driving; broadcast AM and FM is very limited in my area. I would much rather have 10,000 low cost internet stations to choose from as I do at home or on my phone. If technology is too limited to provide data/streaming signals via cell transmissions to many people, then it needs to be re-engineered, or transmitted by satellite. Internet radio is so much better to listen to than most broadcast stations.
I m listening to http://www.xltrax.com through my blackberry Bold
Hey RubberDuck.Get this : Don’t be so skeptic. Internet Radio in you car IS the future
! I bet you’re a scared radio manager of one of those 30 competitors on the FM wave ? Scared about the competition… You’ll see that within this and the next 10 years the technology will be improved in order that a large amount of listeners can tune in on a same internet radio broadcast, and even while being in a same local region whiteout stressing the mobile network capacity in the area. The actual 3G technology will be improved. Imagine the large choice of stations that a driver can select instead of the pour choice between your 30 FM stations ? He can then listen to one of the 10.000 stations. A specific music choice, or even the radio of his neighbour. Yes, listeners will be more selective, the same principle as satellite tv for example or digital tv. You can find specialized stations. And guess. As a Radio Manager of the Belgian Internet station ‘Travel to Five’ (www.traveltofive.be) I prefer 10.000 competitors in a global world market with billions of potential listeners, above the actual 300.000 potential listeners within a limited FM range. It’s a question of scale as you see 
) And above that no white noise neither while listening. A clean internet stream. What do you think about that ?