Why Listen To FM Radio For Music Anymore At Home?


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With the proliferation of all of the great streaming services and great DACS, why would anyone listen to FM radio for music on their main rig at home any more?. I only listen to FM in my car now.
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Frog... You waited an hour and 29 minutes too long for that
tune info. On your streaming device, Pandora, Rhapsody,
Spotify and Tidal would've given you the artist's name, album
title and the name of the tune immediately as you were
listening. Google the album name on your smart phone, one
minute later the sax player and the entire lineup, including
the album release date is right in your hand.
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Frog, I can get Phil Schaap on WKCR right here in LA. The station broadcasts over the web...and it sounds excellent. I could get him if I lived in France. Nearly all FM stations have a web broadcast.
I own a Sansui TU-X1 beast of a tuner, it is in the rare class of top-shelf tuners that Al mentioned above. LA has only one jazz station...and it's not even in LA, it's in Long Beach and reception is spotty. I keep the Sansui tuner more out of fear that I may one day leave LA and find myself in a place with great FM jazz. And like you Al, I listen on my Squeezebox and keep my tuner for the cool factor also.
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Onhwy61, again, I'm sure Frog appreciated the DJ calling him back and giving him that info. It was totally unnecessary for him to call the DJ at all. WBGO, the radio station that he was listening to, posts the playlist of everything they play...kept in real time. Frog merely had to go their website...immediately and could have gotten the info in minutes. The playlists are searchable 2 months into the past. When I lived in Denver more than 20 years ago, KUVO had this feature. KJAZ here in Long Beach has this feature.
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