Is XM/Sirius a threat to internet radio?

[VAXman(Admin)]

Originally Posted by Rick and Roll

Everyone has different motivations. Personally, I would never buy an ipod, or otherwise ensure that the music I like is available anytime/anywhere I want it. It's just not that important to me. Doesn't matter that Sirius, or anyone else has prog. I can fill up my day with all kinds of things...and there's all kinds of things out there I don't even know about.

Then why did you increase the storage requirements of my server to post to this thread?

Originally Posted by Rick and Roll

There will always be a niche for a community like ours, regardless of who else is out there.

I believe the crux of Cozy initial question is whether or not we feel having a satellite radio prog channel option would be a threat to an internet radio prog channel. It is with reference to that that your statement has relevance. Prog is a niche. There are several Prog internet channels giving listeners choice; hopefully, they find the best which is here. If Sirius had a Prog channel, I doubt it would single-handedly supplant the listening needs for all of the people now hooked on Prog stations on the internet. I was listening to Aural Moon when I had the XM service and the Music Lab and Fine Tuning channels were still a part of the programming offerings. There's so much more here and I made the choice to listen to AM over the XM channels. I don't think that anything that Sirius would put together would be Sirius serious competition for what we have here.

[gr8sho92]

Originally Posted by VAXman

Prog is a niche. There are several Prog internet channels giving listeners choice; hopefully, they find the best which is here.

FWIW, here's how I found AM.

1) Bought Treo 650
2) Bought PocketTunes to listen to internet radio
3) Found RadioIO 70s channel which played 2 PFM tracks over a period of several weeks. PFM on the radio in the USA??? What a novel idea. But this channel played a lot of different genres of 70s music and wasn't focused enough on what I liked, so I started searching for progressive rock programming. If it exists at all, it will be on the internet, right?
4) After listening to several different stations around the world, this one seemed decent and I kept listening. Much music I know and love, but even more I don't know or never even heard of.
5) The clincher was the ability for listeners to request their own tracks and in essence extend the music programming model out to the entire listener community. Very cool concept.

As an aside, an article on the history of how AM came to be would be interesting to me.

[jtmckinley]

Originally Posted by gr8sho92

As an aside, an article on the history of how AM came to be would be interesting to me.

Hmm, I'd be interested in learning that as well, Jim?

[VAXman(Admin)]

Originally Posted by jtmckinley

Hmm, I'd be interested in learning that as well, Jim?

I hope this doesn't go too far off course.

I want to add the the Aural Moon FAQ to the web site. I am waiting on somebody to give me a good write-up on how to listen to AM on a Weendoze box. I don't know how to properly answer the question: How can I listen to Aural Moon using a Weenoze machine? other than to say: "Get a Mac!" and then: "See 'How can I listen to Aural Moon using a Mac?'".

Anyway, one of the FAQ sections will be about station workings and history.

[gr8sho92]

Originally Posted by VAXman

I am waiting on somebody to give me a good write-up on how to listen to AM on a Weendoze box. I don't know how to properly answer the question: How can I listen to Aural Moon using a Weenoze machine? other than to say: "Get a Mac!" and then: "See 'How can I listen to Aural Moon using a Mac?'".

I'll offer to help if you tell me the format of how your FAQs are being written.

The net though is there are many players easily accessible that will work. In fact, since you are pro Apple, you can even suggest Quicktime.

Other ubiquitous choices include Realplayer. I typically use MusicMatch. I'm sure there are many others.

It is interesting to note that Windows Media Player does not support .pls format as a default.