Category Archives: Mobile Streaming

Radio.garden

Posted on December 21, 2016 by Fred Stiening

http://radio.garden/ Combine Google Earth with Streaming Radio and magic happens One of the pesky questions is whether in a streaming world people care where a station is located. Weather Garden uses your location as a starting point – it didn’t … Continue reading →

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Amazon launches unlimited on-demand music service

Posted on October 13, 2016 by Fred Stiening

Amazon Music Unlimited is an “on demand” music service. This is different than Sirius XM which has music channels and pandora which guesses what songs you want to hear. Spotify is the closest competitor where you can ask for specific … Continue reading →

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Securenet systems comes around

Posted on October 7, 2016 by Fred Stiening

Better late than never… Their v5 player now launches on mobile devices without needing to download one app per station. It just plays. The player is used by close to 1000 radio stations. It breaks the business model of selling … Continue reading →

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Apple’s iPhone 7 problem

Posted on September 17, 2016 by Fred Stiening

“Nobody goes there anymore; it’s too crowded” Yogi Berra Bloomberg is declaring the demise of Apple because they are selling too many iPhones. Apple Stores are dying A number of money managers bailed on Apple reassuring each other that Apple … Continue reading →

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I’ve joined the dark side

Posted on August 12, 2016 by Fred Stiening

After spending 20 minutes to get a web page to load, I’ve given up.

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Radio Uber

Posted on June 28, 2016 by Fred Stiening

So when people ride using Uber, what happens with the “radio”? What are the rules? For about the past 3 years, I don’t even turn on the radio in my own car, so when riding Uber, asking the driver to … Continue reading →

Posted in Mobile Streaming, The Music of Radio | 4 Comments

Streaming’s top 20

Posted on May 27, 2016 by Fred Stiening

So after the shakeout in the streaming business, who is left? The graphic is a little confusing – for Linux friendly and mobile friendly, the left side is the current state (penguin or happy face) – the link next to … Continue reading →

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HTML5 – what you need to know

Posted on May 21, 2016 by Fred Stiening

Streaming used to be painful. There were 100 different types of players – some needed special applications or plugins, some only worked on some types of computers, some required special decoders that required breaking patent rights. In 2016, 2/3rds of … Continue reading →

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2:20 PM on Wednesday

Posted on February 22, 2016 by Fred Stiening

If you want to catch the United States off guard, that would be the time to do something. You may remember earlier in the Obama years, FEMA and the FCC conducted a mandatory test of the national Emergency Alert System. … Continue reading →

Posted in Global Instability, Individual Liberty, Internet Insecurity, Mobile Streaming, Police State America, Police State America, The FCC, War and not War, Zombie Watch | 9 Comments

2% of streaming is done using Internet Exploder

Posted on January 28, 2016 by Fred Stiening

December’s results are in. The trend to stream using mobile devices rolls on. Triton Digital Report Triton Digital is the biggest platform for radio streaming and has “instrumentation” for other streaming services. It isn’t measuring everything, but most of the … Continue reading →

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