Somewhat related.
How far are we on having wireless earpods/earphones streaming music directly from the satellites? No phones or internet required.
How far are we on having wireless earpods/earphones streaming music directly from the satellites? No phones or internet required.
I wonder if it is possible to broadcast every songs out there and have a software switch frequencies as required.
And switching to a given song's frequency wouldn't be the same as being able to listen on-demand: you'd rarely happen to catch it such that you start listening at the beginning.
Kind of the reverse of what you may mean by broadcasting every song, but if the songs are already being broadcast, tune in.
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It really depends more on what you're into than where you live since so many radio stations stream.
There are plenty of great radio stations out there still, but on the internet people think it's cool to pretend the stations don't exist and burrow themselves deeper into a more and more Balkanized niche echo chamber, never exploring anything outside of their comfort zone.
FMs I've listened to this week: WXRT/Chicago, KCSN/Northridge, KING-FM-HD2/Seattle, KTNN-FM/Tohatchi, K279BO/Palm Springs.
If you want to hear the same old thing over and over, by all means wallow in Spotify or whatever you loaded onto your iPod a decade ago. I do that sometimes, too. It's comforting.
However, there's a world of good and interesting music out there. You just have to make an effort beyond tapping the play button and letting a computer decide what you hear.
Just because they also stream doesn't mean it's not useful to know about.
The internet was a boon exactly because I was sick and tired of all the FM stations that I had available, with their narrow and small playlists, and it allowed me to discover whole new genres and authors (including by listening to online radio). In the mean time, FM just become even worse. The first half is essentially all I have available, do you care to choose a great one? https://radioonline.com.pt/
You shouldn't assume everyone has the same access to good things you did and must be lazy and narrow-minded.
On the other hand, you get a new one every 20 miles down the freeway.
I am French and our FM radios are good in average. Some are excellent, some are poor. The distribution is skewed towards good.
I have the same impression when listening to German ones, though I listen only occasionally and just a few stations.
Then going further east, you have the Polish ones which sound unbereable to me, everyone is unnaturally shouting, or behaving in a very unnatural way (I belive this is copied from the US, despite French radios such as FUN betting precursors of modern FM there in the 90's). There are exceptions though, such as Tok FM.
Small, regional stations in Poland are much better in this regard than the big ones with national coverage.
Still, barely anybody invests in licensing the latest songs so there's a more or less stable list which is repeated over and over.
Satellite radio has awful audio quality for music. I am far from an audiophile, but even I can hear that Sirius/XM sounds like those MP3s I used to download over dialup to save time.
My wife uses the current Apple Watch with AirPods at work, and only uses her phone at home. She leaves her phone in her purse, and seems happy to not have to carry anything else around.
It's entirely feasible but what's the point. By the time you have designed an efficient network for distributing all kinds of audio from 1 (idealized server) to N earpods you've basically just reinvented the internet anyway. There are too many people without any internet connections (or food, let's be honest) to fuck around with a system like that ethically or with any financial responsibility.