The Grace Digital Tuner Pro is one we’ve been paying attention to lately. You don’t even have to be sitting at a computer! There are lots of solutions out there that provide Internet radio through your TV, home multi-room audio system, mobile device or tablet.
If you love quality Aussie music, check it out! Using Internet radio you can get your BBC fix, your NPR update, and all your favorite music without sitting in your car or using a radio of any kind (my parents tell me people used to have these things in their houses!). In fact, as I write this I’m listening to my favorite Australian radio station: the Mix 106.3. The real miracle of Internet radio is that anyone, anywhere in the world can listen to any station broadcasting via the Internet. Here’s the important part: Internet radio covers any and all streaming audio content available via the Internet. Audio data is continuously transmitted serially ("streamed") over the local network or internet in TCP or….YAWN! Not the information I was looking for. I started doing some research, turns out streaming technology is used to distribute Internet radio, typically using a lossy audio codec. I always thought internet radio just meant Pandora or Spotify, and I wasn’t wrong, but I didn’t realize that Internet radio is so much more. Internet radio has blasted the music world open…gone are the days when a decade could be defined by one genre of music because that’s all that played on the radio.
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