In praise of internet radios...

[GrumpyGregry]

...specifically the Roberts Radiostream i93. FM with RDS, DAB, DAB+ (no idea), and WiFi interwebs radio. Radio Four. RADIO FOUR in Copenhagen, without the need to use my phone or keep my laptop running. Not perfect. No sleep button, though it has a sleep function, and appaz it can't play BBC iPlayer Radio catchup stuff.

Roberts ftw!

 

[Supersuperleeds]

But can you get Planet Rock on it?

 

[Hill Wimp]

But can you get Planet Rock on it?

Or a few other staions i like that seemed to have disappeared into the ether from my car DAB

 

[marknotgeorge]

...specifically the Roberts Radiostream i93. FM with RDS, DAB, DAB+ (no idea), and WiFi interwebs radio. Radio Four. RADIO FOUR in Copenhagen, without the need to use my phone or keep my laptop running. Not perfect. No sleep button, though it has a sleep function, and appaz it can't play BBC iPlayer Radio catchup stuff.

Roberts ftw!

It has DLNA, though, so you could use get_iplayer to download the iPlayer stuff to mp3, then stream it over.

 

[Supersuperleeds]

Or a few other staions i like that seemed to have disappeared into the ether from my car DAB

Planet Rock has moved, retune the radio and you should get it

 

[Hill Wimp]

Tried that several times in the car and no luck.

 

[EltonFrog]

Radio 4extra is FAB too.

 

[GrumpyGregry]

Radio 4extra is FAB too.

For one, such as me, with severely disrupted sleep patterns, Radio 4Extra is so very much preferred to the bizarre schools programmes, reminiscent of those of my primary school days in the mid-60s, which clutter the World Service 'after hours' schedule on Radio 4.

 

[shouldbeinbed]

Been off work for a few weeks. R4 extra has barely ever been switched off.

Conversely, the TV only ever gets switched on when Mrs SB gets home.

I consider that I pay my BBC tax disc for the radio far more than for the TV.

 

[oldfatfool]

Same with absolute 80's both home and away radios refuse to find new station

 

[Richard A Thackeray]

Have thought about one, but I only tend to listen to Radio 2, 4, & 6 Music
2; Bob Harris Country (Thursday evening)
Simon Mayo (Mon-Fri tea-time)
Mark Radcliffe Folk Show' (Wednesday evening)
Johnny Walker (Sunday afternoon)

4; Today programme

6 Music; Radcliffe & Maconie (still miss Maconies Saturday afternoon show)
Cerys Matthews (when I remember)

 

[contadino]

I have a Kit Sounds Internet radio on my bedside table. It's amazing. The interface is pretty basic but it works. You sign up on http://www.wifiradio-frontier.com for saving favourite stations. It's connected to my raspberry pi so I can listen to anything from my music library.

I quite like playing radio tourism. Pick a country, find a local station, sit back and imagine you're there. Balinese gamelan or Paraguayan folk.

Plus I record a Napolitan folk show each week for the old lady at the end of the lane. She loves it. I take it round and she gets all nostalgic about when she was a teenager.

 

[GM]

I sometimes listen to our very own @CharlieB on Radio Harrow, Northwick Park Hospital radio on a Tuesday evening. Very good it is too !

 

[srw]

I sometimes listen to our very own @CharlieB on Radio Harrow, Northwick Park Hospital radio on a Tuesday evening. Very good it is too !

Ooh - you know how to live.

As long as a hotel room has some sort of sound system with a speaker a phone and a wifi connection is fine. I'm hoping to be able to listen to the dulcet tones of Clemency Burton-Hill as I go to sleep in Seattle next week (there's a film in there somewhere, isn't there?)

 

[Venod]

I have the Stream 83i it streams my music from a nas drive, sounds OK to me but can plug it into wifi if required, internet radio (current favourite http://www.kozt.com/# ) DAB, FM podcasts, a USB port that will play stuff on a memory stick, I can only pressume the 93i is an improvement on this so must be fantastic.