The satellite receiver is installed and has been running without a glitch for the past several days. There has been no need to adjust or reset anything and it is running unattended.
The audio quality is better than that of the music service provided by the cable TV company as part of the bundle and there are three choices of classical programming rather than the previously available two.
Costwise, this is a bit more expensive than the music add-on with the cable TV package but since we dropped the TV service which we didn't use much the net saving is substantial.
The audience is very happy with this solution.
Neil
Neil Radio8Z is to be given high marks for achievement in solving a program delivery problem and ending up with the best of the various choices that were considered along the way.
This is the kind of executive talent needed in radio today.
I figured that you would like the satellite connection. I love mine..
The satellite receiver is installed and has been running without a glitch for the past several days. ... The audio quality is better than that of the music service provided by the cable TV company as part of the bundle and there are three choices of classical programming rather than the previously available two. etc
Neil's solution is great.
Another possible choice for those with WiFi modems having a connection to the Internet is a "WiFi Internet Radio."
The one I bought a few years ago had an initial cost of a little over $100 but has no monthly cost, and provides free access to several hundred classical program sources around the world (and many, many other genres).
Below is a paste of page 1 of 24 pages of classical music sources from the website of the OEM of this WiFi radio. The links there may work for some of you.
The stereo audio quality of sources in that list with 128K streams is rather good -- at least for the average listener.
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Wow, Rich, that's a lot of classical stations! One station for each work ever composed.
Does Wi-Fi radio provide any way for stations to measure their listenership?
Is the Wi-Fi radio listener able to know how many others are listening to a given station?
Does Wi-Fi radio provide any way for stations to measure their listenership?
I think streaming sources have stats on the number of users of their Internet stream at a given time, but don't know if that extends to how many are accessing it by WiFi.
Is the Wi-Fi radio listener able to know how many others are listening to a given station?
Not in my case, anyway.
One central question about Wi Fi radios is, how do they locate the internet stations that become available?
Do Wi Fi radios plumb all the usual internet stream sources, such as Shoutcast, Live 365, WRN, and a host of others?
If the user finds that a desired station isn't automatically showing up, can it be added to the menu?
I have experience only with one such radio, the VTech IS9181, which appears to be no longer available, but probably other such radios have similar descriptions.
Their website makes it easy to choose the stations you want to appear on the list of them that will stream to that radio. It is also possible to select them directly from the radio, but that is comparatively awkward and tedious.
The VTech website offers these choices once you sign in:
Browse Stations
By Genre
By Location
By Language
Most Popular
My Stations
Add Station by URL
My Account
Help
So at least in the case of this VTech, it appears that a user can add a station URL to the list, although I haven't done that so far as their list has over 10,000 sources already. I have about 20 in the list of "My Stations" that appears under that category on the front panel screen of that radio.
It is a pleasure to be able to hear distant AM radio stations with a high SNR having no co- and adjacent-channel intererence or lightning crashes, and no skywave fading such as when listening to their "over-the-air" broadcasts at night.
You can once again relive the lightning crashes, static noise, co-channel spill-over, all of it, by simply sending the output of the VTech over a Part 15 AM transmitter!
Radio isn't radio unless it's on the radio.
There's no reason to suffer perfect reception.
Aside from my wise cracks, thank you for the tour of the Wi Fi experience.
In my oppinion, I think Neil made a good choice with XM. They provide excellent quality and excellent content.
Streaming stations are usually poorer quality, go off line occasionally, or disappear completely, and provide questionable content. Do you want to endure the Podunk Symphony Orchestra when you have a critacal ear for music?
You know, the get what you pay for thing.