[Electronics-talk] setting radios

[Christopher Chaltain]

I've definitely gotten music from Amazon. I haven't gotten any music 
from iTunes Radio yet, and I'm not sure if I ever got any music from 
Pandora.

I know you're not looking for a PC based solution, but you can put your 
music onto a portable media player, like an iPod or an MP3 player 
running Rockbox, and take your music collection with you where ever you 
go, and you won't need an INTERNET connection to listen to it. More and 
more home theater systems, car stereos and the like, also now include a 
audio input jack, so you can pump your music through them from your MP3 
player.

On 11/26/2013 08:57 PM, Ashley Bramlett wrote:
> Christopher,
> Well, that's what I'm doing. I use the buttons to find stations; thing
> is, though, that stations are so similar, its not always easy to
> identify it. Guess I'll keep doing what I'm doing.
> The radio can have preprogrammed stations. I'll get some assistance to
> program them; maybe it will be easier then.
>
> You say you get music from other sources for your pc player and ipod.
> Where do you get them?
> Probably amazon.
>
> I'd like to use music services but they are not real accessible.
>
> Thanks.
> Ashley
> -----Original Message----- From: Christopher Chaltain
> Sent: Tuesday, November 26, 2013 6:19 PM
> To: Discussion of accessible electronics and appliances
> Subject: Re: [Electronics-talk] setting radios
>
> To find a station, I just press the up or down buttons, either scanning
> or just moving by a small specific increment and then listen to the
> station until I identify it. If it's one I want to keep, I add it to my
> preprogrammed buttons and then I can just get to it in the future with
> one press of a button. This is what I use on my night stand radio and my
> car radios.
>
> I find the easiest way to listen to music is with an MP3 player, either
> a portable unit like a iPod or a player running Rockbox, or a media
> management application on my PC like Winamp, Windows Media Player or
> FooBar in Windows or RhythmBox in Linux. Either way, I can rip my CD's
> or add music from other sources. With the right MP3 tags, I can just
> select the music I want to listen to, either by artist, song, album or
> genre. I don't have to worry about labeling and keeping track of CD's.
>
> On 11/26/2013 01:31 PM, Ashley Bramlett wrote:
>> Hi all,
>> Setting up the radio station you want is with buttons on most radios;
>> in the past, you had a tuner knob to set stations and no digital way
>> to program in stations.
>>
>> Its important to see the station to know where you are.
>> Are there talking radios? I know the ipods read you the station
>> frequency you’re at, but other than that, I can’t think of anything
>> accessible.
>>
>> How do you find the stations you want? Just listen? Ocasionally with
>> good light, I can see the number. Otherwise, I have to listen and
>> guess what station I’m at based on the music played and number of
>> times I’ve pressed a button. For instance if I’m at 99.5 and wish to
>> go to 98.7, I know I don’t have to press the buttons much to get
>> there, but if I wanted to tune to 88.5, I have a long way to go.
>>
>> For music, I love cds! I find them most accessible as you simply put
>> in your cd and press buttons to go to the track you desire or play it
>> on the pc with something like windows media player, and still select
>> your track or listen straight through.
>> Old fashioned, but I find its most accessible except for the ipod
>> route. Most music services such as rhapsody are not very accessible.
>> Oh, nor is the hd radio real accessible either. So cds, IMO, are one
>> of the best options.
>>
>> Ashley
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