For those who find these signal gaps a reason to dismiss the readiness of Internet radio in the car, I offer the following advice. Next time you listen to FM radio, listen carefully. You will soon hear dropouts in those same rural regions where your mobile signal fades. KPCC is the only reason I listen to broadcast radio in LA. As soon as I enter those same hilly areas where I lost signal on my iPhone, the FM signal gets fuzzy and sometimes even drops off. It would be interesting to have a sponsored study where someone drives around and records audio quality and reliability of an FM signal compared to the audio quality of that same station delivered over Internet. I am thinking that they won't be so different on the reliability front and the audio quality front will be heavily in favor of the Internet station.
Friday, May 8, 2009
Cruising to Palm Springs
A brief post for a brief trip. Went out to Palm Springs last weekend. Tuner2 App on iPhone worked great. As usual, signal died at the top of the 241 toll road. Also had brief signal trouble on California Hwy 60 going through the hills outside of Moreno Valley. Overall, though, it was smooth sailing. On a two hour trip, the interruptions accumulated to at most 5 minutes of silence. If only AT&T would get on the job and fix those holes!
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Just bought and downloaded the iPhone Tuner2 app. Works great. My question is, does someone make an AAC (plus etc.) player for the Mac? iTunes doesn't work for those codecs.
Thanks,
Dan
Oh, sorry. Went to "help" on your site and see VLC player does it. Not nearly as convenient as having station lists in iTunes though. And what do you mean about using Winamp buttons? Winamp doesn't work in Mac does it?
Thanks,
Dan
Sorry about the confusion. No, Winamp doesn't work on Mac. However, if you are using VLC, then use the "Winamp" compatible version of the directory.
Yes, it would be nice if iTunes supported aacPlus, but I am not holding my breath. They may come out with support for HE AAC v1 soon (the older version of aacPlus), but I don't anticipate HE AAC v2 (the version that let's you listen at 32Kbps with very high quality) anytime soon on either iPhone or on iTunes.
Given all the players on the personal computer side, I am still working to make the language simple and clear without getting modal. Some changes are coming soon. Thank you so much for listening and for using the iPhone app!
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