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iFill and iPod Shuffle: Perfect companions
A couple of days ago I mentioned Griffin Technology's iFill. I've been playing with it since and I've got to say it seems to have been made specifically with the iPod Shuffle in mind. I like to listen to WOXY, but I use my iPod almost exclusively in the car. Now I can do both. I have a 1GB Shuffle, and I've told iFill to use 512MB for music. Before I go to bed, I plug in the iPod, launch iFill, select WOXY and start recording. By the next morning, I've got my favorite radio station ready to carry around with me all day, all cozy on my Shuffle. I love it.I got some great suggestions from you folks on alternative apps and methods for getting internet radio onto my iPod, but iFill makes it so easy for only nineteen bucks, I think I'll just register this one.
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Porchland said 9:38AM on 6-22-2005
I would like to see iTMS add a "Heard it On" section -- sort of a commercially run iMix -- where you can go to download the music from last night's "The OC," the last hour on WOXY.com, etc.
I would say that half of my downloads come from trolling WOXY playlists, sampling songs on iTMS and buying the ones I like. WOXY actually has a link from its web site to a search window on iTMS, but Apple could do it better.
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Kacy said 9:39AM on 6-22-2005
glad to see WOXY mentioned here. i grew up listening to that station at the start of the alternative/modern rock revolution way back in the 80s. i am glad that even after its transmitter and license were sold that they continue to webcast.
i miss listening to the station when i go back to ohio. driving around listening to 97x, as it was known then, always took me back to my younger days. this post reminded me of those times and now i have a way to recreate that on my ipod.
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Mitch said 9:55AM on 6-22-2005
I came to this same conclusion and use it for exactly the same thing. I started listening to 97X back in 1989 when I moved to Ohio. It became my mainstay FM station and I refused to buy a new car whose stock radio would not pick it up solidly. My homes have all had special FM antennas in the attic just to receive WOXY. I was really devastated when they went silent last May. Now I have an Airport Express at home and that allows me to pipe WOXY anywhere I happen to be. My Shuffle fills in that big hole at 97.7 while in the car. I'm off to search for a Shuffle cradle that also broadcasts on the FM band. Then I can set my radio's #1 memory slot to 97.7 again and really have 97X!
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Anthony said 11:22AM on 6-22-2005
I remember listening to WOXY when I went to visit relatives in Ohio. i would not let my parent's change the station the entire time we were there. I had no idea that WOXY.com existed but am very glad that it does as I live in Dallas. Listening via aacPlus on VLC is amazing. I can't believe how clear it is. This station has given me a reason to get iFill. THANKS!
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arnaudt said 3:53PM on 6-22-2005
hello everyone !
iFill seems a good idea to me ( how much I would like Live365 to offer these same kind of features in the near future) but I don't understand something : the stations list ; is it a closed one ?
How do you add a station that's not on the list ?
Thanks !
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arnaudt said 7:57AM on 6-23-2005
found it ! you have to alt-plus to add a station that's not already on the list
strangely enough this thing happens on the main window, not on the stations window
(and the few tries I've made didn't work)
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Steve said 10:20PM on 6-23-2005
Hi
LOVE iFill but have one question, any idea how to stop it putting the gaps in between the songs? The station I listen to (SomaFM's Groove Salad) playing a continuous mix and while the breaks iFill inserts are usually almost correct it would sound better as one continuous mix.
Cheers
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Andreas Pardeike said 4:12AM on 6-24-2005
The gaps come from the shuffle. So either you record the station continuously (not *yet* manually configurable in iFill) but this would prevent you to skip songs - which I personally consider a good feature.
On a normal iPod, the gaps are almost not there so go and ask Apple to improve the shuffle ;-)
Andreas
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