I am trying to find a software that would allow me to set up a season pass to couple of morning shows that I listen on the internet. It has a similar functionality to orb. Unfortunately, I have huge problems with orb constantly buffering while I drive in the car due to frequent flipping between EDGE/3G.

Has anyone tried to combine ReplayAV and Podcaster on Iphone?

Thanks.

pimg src="http://cache.gawker.com/assets/images/gizmodo/2008/11/GizmodoGalleryAnnex.jpg" style="display:block;" /For a few weeks you've been hearing about the Gizmodo Gallery in NYC, catching a href="http://gizmodo.com/tag/gizmodo-gallery/"plenty of teasers/a for the cool stuffmdash;contemporary marvels, homemade wundergear and pieces of historymdash;we're showing down at the Reed Annex on Orchard St. from today 12 noon through Sunday 4pm. Now, for the first time, we're revealing ithe whole list/i. And it's annotated, for your pleasure./p pbStuff You'll Never Own/bbr a href="http://gizmodo.com/5098715/at-giz-gallery-103+inch-plasma"Panasonic 103-Inch TV/abr The biggest production HDTV in the world, this 103-inch diagonal plasma is coincidentally the largest set we could fit into Reed Annex./p pa href="http://gizmodo.com/372072/sony-xel+1-oled-tv-review-verdict-small-on-size-large-on-beauty"Sony 11-Inch OLED TV/abr OLED technology will power all flat-screen TVs in the future, but the beautiful, high-contrast wafer-thin screens are still excruciatingly expensivemdash;in this case $230 per diagonal inch, or $2500 for the set./p pa href="http://gizmodo.com/5042268/draganfly-x6-uav-ufo-thingy-packed-with-carbon-fiber-hdnight-cameras-and-gps"Draganfly X6 RC Helicopter/abr A carbon-fiber remote-controlled helicopter designed to be stable in 18mph winds or even if some of its motors die. It's GPS enabled and can be armed with a high definition camcorder or night vision. And it looks like a Terminator./p pa href="http://gizmodo.com/341896/hands-on-with-optimus-maximus-keyboard"Optimus Maximus Keyboard/abr A keyboard with little OLED screens under each key, which can be programmed to display whatever character, picture or animation and trigger any keystrokes you want./p pa href="http://gizmodo.com/gadgets/gadgets/carbon-butterfly-gallery-rc-plane-lighter-than-a-sheet-of-paper-251243.php"Carbon Butterfly RC Plane/abr This remote-controlled airplane is lighter than a piece of notebook paper because of lightweight balsa, carbon fiber and Swiss-made gears./p pa href="http://gizmodo.com/gadgets/curvaceous-cell/new-au-infobars-shave-corners-just-need-lube-303709.php"Au Infobar2/abr Despite it lacking a lengthy feature list, the Infobar2 is the most beautiful phone from Japan's AU company and I think maybe the most beautiful in the world. On Loan from Gizmodo Japan and Au./p pa href="http://gizmodo.com/gadgets/gadgets/nab07-hands+on-red-one-4k-digital-cinema-camera-gallery-252750.php"Red One Movie Camera/abr A digital movie-making revolution and a future-proof modular platform, the 10-lb. digital video camera shoots pristine 4K-resolution movies with its 12-million-pixel "ultra high def" sensor./p pbStuff You Might Convince Your Mom To Buy You/bbr a href="http://gizmodo.com/gadgets/home-entertainment/yamahas-ysp+4000-flagship-surround-bar-does-upscaling-hdmi-xmipods-288971.php"Yamaha YSP-4000 Surround Sound Bar/abr This soundbar is a 5 channel surround sound system that uses cold war submarine sonar tech to bounce beams of audio against walls and to your ears from different angles./p pa href="http://gizmodo.com/gadgets/amazon-kindle-live/amazon-kindle-e+book-reader-launch-live-324292.php"Amazon Kindle Ebook Reader/abr The first wireless E-Ink ebook reader with a cellular connection, so you can buy and download books without the need for a computer. It bests the paperback but can't be safely read in the bathtub./p pa href="http://gizmodo.com/5038693/review-pentax-w60-waterproof-camera-catching-whale-sharks"Pentax W60 Waterproof Camera/abr I've had many happy times in Hawaii with this camera. It's my favorite because it works to 30 feet and yet is small enough to pocket without causing a bulge./p pa href="http://gizmodo.com/380767/hands-on-yamahas-tenori+on-synthesizer-we-love-it"Yamaha Tenori-On Music Maker/abr A revolutionary rethinking of the music keyboard, this 16x16 pad of light-up keys interprets a player's finger strokes and performs a light and sound show in response./p pa href="http://gizmodo.com/5096518/at-gizmodo-gallery-weird-japanese-usb-gadgets"USB Heated Gloves/abr Thanko's Gloves use the power from a computer's USB ports to warm your fingers on cold winter mornings./p pa href="http://gizmodo.com/5096518/at-gizmodo-gallery-weird-japanese-usb-gadgets"USB Neck Tie/abr Thanko's USB powered neck ties have a built in fan for hot office afternoons./p pa href="http://gizmodo.com/gadgets/once-upon-a-time/using-belkins-weird-powerstrips-289558.php%3EBelkin%20Power%20Strips%3C/a%3E%3Cbr%20/%3EThe%20only%20power%20bricks%20we're%20proud%20to%20display%20have%20clever%20cable%20organizers%20and%20closing%20panels.%3C/p%3E%3Cp%3E%3Ca%20href="Wicked Lasers Torch/abr Currently pending Guinness records for being the most powerful flashlight of its kind, the 4100 lumen Torch can easily set paper on fire./p pa href="http://gizmodo.com/gadgets/gadgets/will-it-blend-crazy-old-man-blends-everything-in-powerful-blender-215611.php"Blendtec Blender/abr We don't know if Blendtec makes the best blenders, but if they can shred bananas the way they can shred gadgets on their famous YouTube videos, we're sold./p pa href="http://gizmodo.com/383843/casio-exilim-ex+f1-slow+mo-super-cam-full-review-verdict-totally-unique-shockingly-powerful"Casio Exilim EX-F1 Super-Slow-Motion Camera/abr The first consumer-grade camera to deliver 1200-frames-per-second slow-mo, it can also shoot 60 full-resolution stills per second./p pa href="http://gizmodo.com/359388/hands-on-chumby-wi+fi-widget-beanbag-cuddly-in-more-ways-than-one"Chumby/abr It's an internet machine disguised as a pillow. I use it to check the snow report, play internet radio, tell the time, check the surf and read the news, but it can run hundreds of additional widgets./p pa href="http://gizmodo.com/5099074/aiptek-pocketcinema-v10-pico-projector-review"Aiptek V10 PMP Pico Projector/abr Battery-powered mini projector plays movies from an SD card, using an LED to project a picture up to 50" on the wall without burning your hand. One day, all cellphones will have these./p pa href="http://gizmodo.com/gadgets/gadgets/wild-charge-hands+on-really-does-charge-wirelessly-227215.php"WildCharge Charging Station/abr A charging matt that uses nubs on a matt instead of wires to charge your devices./p pa href="http://gizmodo.com/5100801/at-gizmodo-gallery-a-never-seen-before-tokyoflash-watch"Tenmetsu Tokyo Flash Watch/abr Tokyoflash's Tenmetsu watch is one of the cleanest designed of their collection, and has never been seen before the Gizmodo Gallery./p pa href="http://gizmodo.com/5018137/3800+piece-death-star-diorama-is-coolest-star-wars-lego-ever"Lego Death Star/abr This Lego diorama includes 3800 pieces, 21 minifigs and is one of the biggest sets ever made. It's also the only one that can destroy entire brick planets at will./p pa href="http://gizmodo.com/gadgets/gadgets/tokyo-found-godzilla-beer-dispenser-roars-when-you-pour-225195.php"Godzilla Beer Pourer/abr This Japanese gadget looses a Godzilla roar when you lock in a can and serve beer from its mouth./p pbStuff You'd Have To Make Yourself/bbr a href="http://gizmodo.com/gadgets/mods/samus-wii-mod-tucks-rolls-explodes-with-goodness-303933.php"Metroid-Modded Wii/abr Samus tucks, rolls and explodes out of this yellow light-up Wii./p pa href="http://benheck.com/original-atari-2600-vcsp"Ben Heck Custom Atari VCSp/abr Almost a decade ago, Ben Heckendorn sparked an entire underground scene of custom, hand-built game consoles when he deconstructed the classic Atari 2600, transforming it into the Atari VCSp, complete with built-in screen, sound amplifier, battery power, and aluminum frame. On loan via Ryan Block, gdgt./p pa href="http://www.coin-operated.com/projects/ipomadness"Jonah's Slot Machine/abr This web 1.0 bubble art project checked for short URLs and if you land on an available address, you've hit the jackpot./p pa href="http://gizmodo.com/5098617/at-gizmodo-gallery-free-diy-laser-etching"Make's Phil Torrone and His Laser Etcher/abr Yes, our friend Phil from MAKE Magazine is showing up with his laser etching device to brand custom images onto any and every surface./p pa href="http://gizmodo.com/5099673/at-giz-gallery-reader-meetup-with-a-back-to-the-future-delorean"Back To the Future-Modded DeLorean/abr Roads? Where we're going, we don't need roads. Oh wait, yeah we domdash;this mod is pre-Mr. Fusion./p pa href="http://gizmodo.com/5057856/nes-bong-is-one-third-party-nintendo-accessory-you-wont-find-at-gamestop"NES Bong/abr A Nintendo controller modified into a contraption for smoking tobacco and only tobacco. On loan from some stoner./p pa href="http://gizmodo.com/5020490/msi-wind-running-mac-os-x-also-thinks-its-a-mac-pro"PC Running Mac OS X Using Hackintosh/abr We're partial to Macs at Gizmodo, but there's plenty of nice PC hardware that we'd love to run Mac OS on, like this MSI Wind Nettop that uses Hackintosh to get it done. On Loan from Brian X. Chen of WIRED.com/p pa href="http://www.ladyada.net/make/wavebubble/"Limor's Wave Bubble Radio Jammer/abr An open source radio wave jammer that will disable connections like those from Wi-Fi, GPS, cellular and RF. Illegal. Small enough to hide in a pack of cigarettes./p pa href="http://gizmodo.com/gadgets/gadgets/super-tv+b+gone-bulked-up-to-90+foot-range-184527.php"TV B Gone/abr This pocket sized remote spams IR power codes of common TVs to shut off different makes and models. Not recommended for trade shows. Trust me./p pbThe Stuff of History/bbr a href="http://gizmodo.com/5091517/at-gizmodo-gallery-ancient-apple-phone-prototypes"Apple Phone Prototype/abr In the early 80's, Frog Design and Apple collaborated on this phone prototype with electronic check payment and a stylus for use on the monochrome screen./p pa href="http://translate.google.com/translate?u=http%3A%2F%2Ffudder.de%2Fartikel%2F2007%2F07%2F17%2Fdie-design-vorfahren-des-iphone%2Fsl=detl=enhl=enie=UTF-8"Apple Tablet Prototype/abr From Frog and Apple's "Snow White" design language comes this tablet, looking very much like a cousin of the IIc./p pa href="http://gizmodo.com/5098364/at-gizmodo-gallery-the-original-sony-walkman"Sony's First Walkman/abr The TPS-L2 Walkman did not record and was panned by the press before its release in Japan in 1979. Right before becoming a huge success. On loan from Sony Tokyo Archives./p pa href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sony_Mavica"First Sony Digital Mavica Cam/abr This 1988 electronic camera paved the way for modern digital cameras. It wrote to a floppy disk and had a TV output cable./p pa href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blickensderfer_typewriter"Blickensderfer Portable Typewriter/abr George Blickensderfer's portable typewriters, introduced around 1892, were advertised as "The Five-Pound Secretary." The Model 6, first sold in 1906, offered an aluminum framework, at that time a relatively expensive and rare metal. On loan from Christopher Bonanos./p pa href="http://www.clickondavid.com/polaroid.html"Polaroid Land Camera, Model 95/abr In the fall of 1947, the chemist Edwin Land brought a few dozen new cameras and a pile of film to Boston's Jordan Marsh department store, to demonstrate the instant-photography system he'd developed./p pa href="http://www.corp.att.com/attlabs/reputation/timeline/83celltech.html"Bell Labs Briefcase Phone/abr First used in 1984 as an early example of a transportable cell phone (most other cell phones were car only phones). On Loan from the ATT Archives and History Center./p pa href="http://www.corp.att.com/attlabs/reputation/timeline/70picture.html"Bell Labs Picturephone/abr The first Picturephone test system, built in 1956, was crudemdash;it transmitted an image only once every two seconds. But by 1964 a complete experimental system, the "Mod 1," had been developed and wasbr displayed at the New York World's Fair, paired to a model at Disneyland. On Loan from the ATT Archives and History Center./p pa href="http://www.dyson.com/about/story/"Dyson G-Force Bagless Vacuum/abr James Dyson invented a bagless vacuum, which no one would manufacture because it would kill bag sales. It was picked up in Japan in 1983, though, and James used the proceeds to launch a company that today builds the world's suckiest vacs./p pa href="http://www.sony.net/SonyInfo/News/Press_Archive/200001/00-002E/"Sony Aibo ERS-111/abr Sony's first revision of their 1st generation robot pet was able to learn and grow from having puppy-like logic to dog-like logic. They were too unsophisticated to run or seem very lifelike, but they paved the way for true robotic toys like the Pleo dinosaur./p pa href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philippe_Kahn"First Cameraphone Prototype/abr Philippe Kahn built the first cameraphone in 1997 out of a digital camera, a laptop and a Motorola handset with some clever software. To date, well over a billion cameraphones have been sold. You do the math./p p[Links above wrangled by intern Ericamdash;Thanks Erica!!! And thanks to our host a href="http://www.thereedspace.com/"REED ANNEX/a and our benefactor a href="http://www.gizmine.com/"gizmine.com/a]/p pbGizmodo Gallery/bbr a href="http://www.thereedspace.com/"Reed Annex/abr a href="http://maps.google.com/maps?q=151+orchard+street+nyie=UTF8oe=utf-8client=firefox-all=40.721226,-73.989122spn=0.009741,0.015814z=16g=151+orchard+street+nyiwloc=addr"151 Orchard Street/abr New York, NY 10002/p pstrongGizmodo Gallery Reader Meetup/strongbr The a href="http://gizmodo.com/5099673/at-giz-gallery-reader-meetup-with-a-back-to-the-future-delorean"reader meetup/a takes place across the street from the Gallery, at a place called a href="http://www.theannexnyc.com/"The Annex/a (not to be confused with REED ANNEX where the gallery is hosted.) The address is a href="http://maps.google.com/maps?q=152+Orchard+Street+nyie=UTF8oe=utf-8client=firefox-all=40.721112,-73.988628spn=0.00914,0.013411z=16g=152+Orchard+Street+nyiwloc=addr"152 Orchard Street/a and we'll be there at strong9 PM SHARP on Friday December 5th/strong./p pGallery Dates:br December 4th-7th/p pTimes:br 12/4 Thursdaybr 12-8/p p12/5 Fridaybr 12-8/p p12/6 Saturdaybr 11-8/p p12/7 Sundaybr 11-4/p p[Read more about our a href="http://gizmodo.com/5082811/gizmodo-gallery-our-wonderful-world-of-gadgets-on-display-in-nyc"Gizmodo Gallery here/a and see what else we'll be a href="http://gizmodo.com/tag/Gizmodo%20Gallery"playing with/a at the event.]/p br style="clear: both;"/ a href="http://www.pheedo.com/click.phdo?s=63eb1622619333b3bd0cd7e27b8c13dfp=1"img alt="" style="border: 0;" border="0" src="http://www.pheedo.com/img.phdo?s=63eb1622619333b3bd0cd7e27b8c13dfp=1"//a img src="http://www.pheedo.com/feeds/tracker.php?i=63eb1622619333b3bd0cd7e27b8c13df" style="display: none;" border="0" height="1" width="1" alt=""/div class="feedflare" a href="http://feeds.gawker.com/~f/gizmodo/full?a=mn6I4V1u"img src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/gizmodo/full?d=120" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feeds.gawker.com/~f/gizmodo/full?a=txWTtMZy"img src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/gizmodo/full?d=41" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feeds.gawker.com/~f/gizmodo/full?a=h5NcolEI"img src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/gizmodo/full?i=h5NcolEI" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feeds.gawker.com/~f/gizmodo/full?a=1iuAdOjZ"img src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/gizmodo/full?i=1iuAdOjZ" border="0"/img/a /divimg src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/gizmodo/full/~4/8gd41vjLT_8" height="1" width="1"/

Struggling with rising music royalty costs, on Wednesday, Yahoo offloaded much of the responsibility for its Internet radio service to CBS, only a few months after Time Warner made a similar move with AOL Radio.

DENVER (Billboard) - Chalk up another Internet radio casualty of significantly increased royalty fees for airing music online. Yahoo Music, once the top music destination on the Web, is handing over the bulk of its Launchcast Internet radio operations to CBS Radio.div class="feedflare" a href="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/Reuters/InternetNews?a=9hGE2vGR"img src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/Reuters/InternetNews?d=41" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/Reuters/InternetNews?a=qQkuPung"img src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/Reuters/InternetNews?i=qQkuPung" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/Reuters/InternetNews?a=QvaoZjCb"img src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/Reuters/InternetNews?i=QvaoZjCb" border="0"/img/a /divimg src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Reuters/InternetNews/~4/8O9YubLrX8U" height="1" width="1"/

p iSunnyvale, Calif. /i- Driven largely by rising royalty rates, Yahoo a href="http://finance.dmwmedia.com/dmwmedia?Page=QUOTEamp;Ticker=YHOO" target="_blank"(NASD: YHOO)/a said on Wednesday that it has signed a deal that will move its Launchcast Internet radio service under the umbrella of CBS Radio a href="http://finance.dmwmedia.com/dmwmedia?Page=QUOTEamp;Ticker=CBS" target="_blank"(NYSE: CBS)/a.pa href="http://www.dmwmedia.com/news/2008/12/03/yahoo-taps-cbs-radio-run-launchcast-service"read more/a/pdiv class="feedflare" a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/dmwmedia?a=KQy6O"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/dmwmedia?i=KQy6O" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/dmwmedia?a=4v0Xo"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/dmwmedia?i=4v0Xo" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/dmwmedia?a=WMu5o"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/dmwmedia?i=WMu5o" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/dmwmedia?a=hZkmO"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/dmwmedia?i=hZkmO" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/dmwmedia?a=fUJRo"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/dmwmedia?i=fUJRo" border="0"/img/a /divimg src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/dmwmedia/~4/474094712" height="1" width="1"/

img src="http://www.ehomeupgrade.com/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/nokia_home_music-150x150.jpg" align="left" hspace="5" vspace="2" title="Nokia Home Music" alt="" /Very nice. Nokia Europe has unveiled their first Internet radio device for the consumer market. The Nokia Home Music offers Wi-Fi and Ethernet connectivity making it capable of tapping into 1000s of Internet radio stations, as well as, traditional FM radio. In adddition, the Nokia Home Music can stream music from network devices via UPnP [...]pVisit a href="http://www.ehomeupgrade.com"eHomeUpgrade/a for more breaking news./pimg src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/ehomeupgrade/entries/~4/473915287" height="1" width="1"/

img class=face src=http://planet.ubuntu.com/heads/jono.png alt= pWhen I was a kid, I owned a a href=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sega_GenesisSega Megadrive/a (Sega Genesis for my American friends). I spent hours on that thing. Sonic The Hedgehog. Streets Of Rage. Desert Strike. Toejam And Earl. I loved it./p pOne game that was released was a href=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carmen_SandiegoWhere In The World Is Carmen Sandiego?/a Back then it was marketed as emedutainment/em: essentially a sneaky way for parents to infiltrate their kid#8217;s leisure time with learning under the premise of it being #8220;fun#8221;. Of course, kids are smarter than parents give them credit for. Kids were wise to this and often avoided games like that like the plague. The mind of a 12 year-old concluded that enough time is spent in front of teachers, workbooks and exams without it invading precious Sega time. I was one such kid. I emhated/em the idea of edutainment. I didnt want to learn with my Megadrive, I wanted to shoot things with very large, very loud, deeply pixelated guns./p pThings change when you grow up (yes, I have grown up, smart arses). I now love learning. I love reading. I spend hours drowning in Wikipedia and exploring our world, our history and our patchwork of cultures. I love learning about people#8217;s experiences, perspectives and attitudes. I no longer have the 12 year-old mentality that learning is for school time. Learning really is genuinely emfun/em./p pNaturally, there are some subjects I like to learn about in more detail. Community (zing!). Computers. Free Software. Free Culture. Music. There are however some subjects that I develop a curiosity about and feel an urge to investigate. These subjects are not part of my daily interests and hobbies, but are temporary avenues of curiosity./p pOne recent example for me is emHistorical Jesus/em. A few days ago I read everything Wikipedia had to offer about about the subject. This was triggered originally by a history TV show which in turn inspired me to buy a book about significant events in human history. In this book I read about Jesus#8217;s Crucifixion and decided to further refresh my knowledge of the subject by hitting up Wikipedia. In this example we see two distinctive concepts: emPassive Education/em and emContent Aggregation and Linking/em:/p ul liemPassive Education/em - in my example of Historical Jesus, my primary focus was gathering the facts and the story. I was happy for this subject#8217;s learning to be passive. I was happy to merely consume the content and not interact with it much more than selecting what to learn./li liemContent Aggregation and Linking/em - learning has links and connections. I first watched a show about history. This intrigued me to buy the book on historical events. A section in that book inspired me to access specific content on Wikipedia. The thread that connected these different resources together was the subject of Historical Jesus and I aggregated the different pieces of knowledge together in my brain. My current knowledge of Historical Jesus draws from these different resources./li /ul pWhen we learn about our primary interests, learning is different. Our desire is often for emActive Learning/em. We not only want to know the subject, but we want to immerse ourselves in the execution and debate of it too. Much of this is not only collating general knowledge, as I did with Historical Jesus, but learning about more localised information too. When I learn about music, I want to know about local bands. I want to know when my favourite bands are coming to my area. I want to hear about music groups, gigs, and conventions near to me. I want to know about special offers in local music stores. In a nutshell, I don#8217;t just want to consume, I want to emparticipate/em./p pIn recent years, computers and the Internet have made both Active and Passive Learning incredibly accessible. The web has bolstered passive learning resources, and active learning has been thrusted towards us with online communities, social networking, community groups and discussion boards. No matter what you want to know about, the Internet can help you in both Passive and Active ways/p pBut lets get back to emWhere In The World Is Carmen Sandiego?/em. Although I could not stand the concept of emedutainment/em at the time, what that game emdid/em do that intrigues me is that it delivered education to people automatically. The education was emassociative/em: topics and concepts were delivered to you as you played the game./p pI find this really interesting. I find the concept of linking and associating different types of education and resources fascinating. This also holds huge opportunity for the desktop./p pA great example is a href=http://banshee-project.org/Banshee/a. For those who have been living under a rock for the last three years, Banshee is a media player. I have it open all day, delivering a fresh dose of metal to me all day long. Banshee not only plays music, but it brings many diverse music related activities together under the same roof: digital music, Internet radio, CD playing and ripping, meta-data editing etc. The Banshee bods have done a great job./p pBut the most interesting feature to me is its a href=http://www.last.fm/Last.fm/a integration. When I listen to a song (such as Hammerfall right now). The artist and track is posted to a href=http://www.last.fm/user/jonobaconmy Last.fm account/a. This in itself is not all that exciting. But what Banshee does that emis/em exciting is look up the artist of my current playing song and use Last.fm to make recommendations. It delivers those recommendations to me inside the application. That is emwicked cool/em. Sure, I could go and look up these recommendations on the Last.fm website, but I am unlikely to do that. Banshee does the work for me. The result is that this simple feature has helped me discover literally hundreds of new bands. Banshee linked and aggregated the data, and this resulted in better learning for this important part of my interests./p pYesterday I installed the a href=http://getsongbird.com/new 1.0.0 release of Songbird/a. Songbird is an iTunes like Open Source media player that holds some stunning promise. They have used Mozilla technologies and GStreamer to build a cross-platform media player. I know some of the guys who work on Songbird and wanted to give it a try: I had last used an early snapshot. While I don#8217;t want to turn this into a review (if you folks want a review, let me know and I will write one up), it ships with some interesting features that build on some of the concepts seen in Banshee. Oh, and Amarok folks, I know your media player has probably been doing all of this for years, so hold fire. img src=http://www.jonobacon.org/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_smile.gif alt=:) class=wp-smiley / /p pIn Songbird, for the artist of the song I am currently listening to, Songbird will go and look up data from a number of resources and bring it together. It grabs a summary blurb, discography, members, tags and links of the artist from Last.fm, a photo slideshow from Flickr, videos from YouTube, and News from Google News. Again, I could find this information separately without ever installing Songbird, but Songbird not only aggregated this content, but it linked it to an opportunity of curiosity (what I am listening to). I might never typically go and look for more details about emHammerfall/em, but when I am listening to it, it often triggers my interest. Songbird satisfies that curiosity before I even know I have it./p pAnother great feature of Songbird that builds on emactive learning/em is that it uses a href=http://www.songkick.com/Songkick/a to look up all of the artists in my playlist to see if there are concerts and shows in my area. With this feature I now have a list of all the up and coming shows for the artists I like (including all those obscure metal bands). This provides me with direct access to the local community and opportunities. That is one stunningly helpful and outrageously cool feature. My media player is stopping being a place to merely consume music, and instead becoming a place to aggregate everything these is about the music I listen to and the artists that make it./p pThis is an even more valuable proposition for a desktop. Just think of the range of types of media we consume and the applications that we use to consume them. Now mix this with the range of online sources of education and content. It could be really interesting to pull together these threads into one cohesive experience. I love that Totem in Ubuntu can stream BBC content to me, but I would love it to show me some information and products about that content too. I would love Evolution to provide me with an ability to easily look up terms, acronyms and products in my emails with a single click. When I look at photos in F-Spot I would love to see pricing for prints and frames to put my pictures in./p pIt would also be fascinating to identify the work-flow of education in a computer. From sourcing content in Wikipedia, how does it flow through text editors, communications tools, online services and publishing mediums? How can we identify these links in the chain and optimise them?/p pBig subject. I know. But huge potential./p

Yahoo Music, once the top music destination on the Web, is handing over the bulk of its Launchcast Internet radio operations to CBS Radio.

pimg class="float_right" src="/~~/f?id=47d7fc2314b9b9b00066bea6maxX=200maxY=151" border="0" alt="mel-karmazin.jpg" title="mel-karmazin.jpg" width="200" height="151" /Satellite radio's biggest problem: a href="http://www.alleyinsider.com/2008/11/sirius-xm-slower-growth-ahead-siri-"Slowing subscriber growth/a, compounded by the a href="http://www.alleyinsider.com/2008/11/sirius-xm-our-christmas-will-suck-siri"freefalling auto industry/a, where most of Sirius XM's (SIRI) new customers come from, and a href="http://www.alleyinsider.com/2008/11/yes-sirius-siri-can-certainly-go-to-zero"fast-burning cash reserves/a. Another problem: Increasing, improving competition, such as Internet radio streams available via mobile phones./p pOne of Sirius's Internet radio foes is bulking up: CBS, where Sirius XM CEO Mel Karmazin used to work. CBS (CBS) is taking over Yahoo's (YHOO) Launchcast music service, the company announced today, and will re-launch it early next year./p p style="padding-left: 30px;"a href="http://mediamemo.allthingsd.com/20081203/yahoos-music-outsourcing-continues-cbs-takes-over-radio-offering/"MediaMemo/a: For CBS, this represents yet another bet the company has placed on digital music. The company already boasts 4.5 million monthly users for its Web radio offering, many of whom come from the AOL music service it powers. The Yahoo deal will add another 3 million users. That's in addition to the audience that uses Last.fm, the Web music service it purchased for $280 million in 2007./p pVia the Web, CBS's partnership with AOL (TWX) for its excellent Apple (AAPL) iPhone radio app, Last.fm, and other potential technologies, CBS is building an impressive Internet radio offering. It's not a huge, immediate threat to Sirius XM, which still has better, more developed technology and some exclusive programming, like Howard Stern. But it's something to keep an eye on./p pstrongSee Also:/strongbr /a href="../../2008/11/yes-sirius-siri-can-certainly-go-to-zero"Yes, Sirius XM Can Certainly Go To Zero/abr /a href="../../2008/10/siriusxm-ceo-car-sales-can-tank-and-we-ll-still-be-fine"Sirius XM CEO: Car Sales Can Tank And We'll Still Be Fine/abr /a href="../../2008/11/sirius-xm-our-christmas-will-suck-siri"Sirius XM: Our Christmas Will Suck/a/p pa href="http://feedads.googleadservices.com/~at/ZPMFnC3GszJ_AtZN8F2YifydOCk/a"img src="http://feedads.googleadservices.com/~at/ZPMFnC3GszJ_AtZN8F2YifydOCk/i" border="0" ismap="true"/img/a/pdiv class="feedflare" a href="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/typepad/alleyinsider/silicon_alley_insider?a=UmcnKF96"img src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/typepad/alleyinsider/silicon_alley_insider?i=UmcnKF96" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/typepad/alleyinsider/silicon_alley_insider?a=L5970Le4"img src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/typepad/alleyinsider/silicon_alley_insider?d=52" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/typepad/alleyinsider/silicon_alley_insider?a=f4gVVjI7"img src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/typepad/alleyinsider/silicon_alley_insider?d=80" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/typepad/alleyinsider/silicon_alley_insider?a=Om5OuXR2"img src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/typepad/alleyinsider/silicon_alley_insider?i=Om5OuXR2" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/typepad/alleyinsider/silicon_alley_insider?a=GlSkT92e"img src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/typepad/alleyinsider/silicon_alley_insider?d=131" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/typepad/alleyinsider/silicon_alley_insider?a=5jPg3eSC"img src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/typepad/alleyinsider/silicon_alley_insider?d=336" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/typepad/alleyinsider/silicon_alley_insider?a=r1BSL77T"img src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/typepad/alleyinsider/silicon_alley_insider?d=41" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/typepad/alleyinsider/silicon_alley_insider?a=VuKuiODN"img src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/typepad/alleyinsider/silicon_alley_insider?d=50" border="0"/img/a /divimg src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/typepad/alleyinsider/silicon_alley_insider/~4/KlkXmJ8LwFE" height="1" width="1"/

p#149; Here's a contrast of two countries: Last week's U.S. new releases included two superstar albums (Kanye West, Guns N' Roses) that did not live up to expectations. In the U.K., Take That just set a record for first-day album sales. The album is dead. The album lives. (a href="http://www.reuters.com/article/lifestyleMolt/idUSTRE4B146L20081202"Reuters/a)/p p#149; Amazon MP3 is now available in the UK. Songs range in price from 59p to over 80p. Some albums have been sale priced at £3. All four majors are on board. Not all indies have signed up yet. (a href="http://musically.com/blog/2008/12/03/amazon-mp3-goes-live-in-the-uk-with-3-albums-from-take-that-coldplay-kings-of-leon/"Music Ally/a)/p p#149; Here's a thorough overview of the efforts by UK stakeholders to implement some sort of ISP-based alternative to P2P and the actions/penalties against repeat copyright infringers. (a href="http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20081201-uk-consumers-big-content-battle-over-three-strikes-rules.html"Ars Technica/a)/p p#149; CBS Radio is taking over Yahoo Music's Launchcast internet radio operations. (a href="http://www.billboard.biz/bbbiz/content_display/industry/e3ia662814697fe50166f7b1b98468880de"Billboard.biz/a)/p p#149; The city of Austin, Texas is taking steps to ensure it continues to be a music city: the creation of a city music department, the development of more music venues, incentives to lure music companies. (a href="http://www.telegram.com/article/20081203/NEWS/812030405/1102"AP/a)/p p#149; Musician Marnie Stern has set up a three-tiered kissing booth to help defray her band's touring costs: $1 for a peck, $3 on the lips and $100 for some tongue. No takers yet on the $100 option. (a href="http://www.expressnightout.com/content/2008/11/kiss_shred_marnie_stern.php"Express Night Out/a, via a href="http://voices.washingtonpost.com/postrock/"Post Rock/a)/phr/[music jobs] a href="http://coolfer.jobamatic.com/a/jbb/job-details/43602"The Beggars Group Matador Records is seeking a Paralegal/adiv class="feedflare" a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/coolfer?a=bCSRo"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/coolfer?i=bCSRo" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/coolfer?a=x71jO"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/coolfer?i=x71jO" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/coolfer?a=wUKPO"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/coolfer?i=wUKPO" border="0"/img/a /divimg src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/coolfer/~4/473648956" height="1" width="1"/

Yahoo Inc. is plugging its Internet radio service into CBS Corp.'s webcasting network in a move driven by dramatically higher fees for airing music online.div class="feedflare" a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/ibtimes/tech?a=CrJuO"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/ibtimes/tech?i=CrJuO" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/ibtimes/tech?a=ffoOo"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/ibtimes/tech?i=ffoOo" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/ibtimes/tech?a=sqdIo"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/ibtimes/tech?i=sqdIo" border="0"/img/a /divimg src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/ibtimes/tech/~4/473552858" height="1" width="1"/

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Statesman writes "Only a little over a year ago, the FCC approved the merger of XM and Sirius satellite radio companies and the combined stock was trading at $4 a share. Despite being a monopoly — or perhaps because of it — the company is failing. They are losing subscribers, the stock is now trading around 22 cents a share (a 97% decline), and they have written off $4.8 billion dollars in stock value. So, what happened? The CEO is blaming pretty much everyone except himself and his business model. But is pay-for-bandwidth even a viable business plan anymore? With millions of iPhone and gPhone users out there, free streaming audio applications like FStream, and thousands of Internet radio stations to access, the question is: why would anyone want to pay for proprietary hardware and a limited selection of a few hundred stations all controlled by one company?" Read on for the rest of Statesman's thoughts.

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