iTunes Tagging on deck for Macworld?

Yawn....

stoopid 1password... sorry for the double post.

FYI: The term HD doesn't mean anything. It doesn't stand for Hybrid Digital, or High Definition. It doesn't have a meaning, it is only a marketing term. Catchy...

The tech used to broadcast the digital signal is still FM, it is only FM digital. We actually inject the digital carrier into the sidebands of our regular analog signal. The method is called IBOC, In Band, On Channel. It is actually pretty cool.

The whole iTunes tagging thing is also pretty cool in my own opinion. We may be rolling it out in the near future.

Opinion on commercials is varied. Advertisers love 'em, and listeners hate them. But it is really the ONLY thing to keep radio free in the US. The ONLY thing... Otherwise we have a radio tax and less stations. That means less representation of your local community (I know there are lots of local small stations that serve their community with local news and weather. I have visited ALOT of them.)

FYI: The term HD doesn't mean anything. It doesn't stand for Hybrid Digital, or High Definition. It doesn't have a meaning, it is only a marketing term. Catchy...

The tech used to broadcast the digital signal is still FM, it is only FM digital. We actually inject the digital carrier into the sidebands of our regular analog signal. The method is called IBOC, In Band, On Channel. It is actually pretty cool.

The whole iTunes tagging thing is also pretty cool in my own opinion. We may be rolling it out in the near future.

Opinion on commercials is varied. Advertisers love 'em, and listeners hate them. But it is really the ONLY thing to keep radio free in the US. The ONLY thing... Otherwise we have a radio tax and less stations. That means less representation of your local community (I know there are lots of local small stations that serve their community with local news and weather. I have visited ALOT of them.)

"which let's you"?

Yes, this is so iPod Socks, it's not even funny.

Who on Earth uses radio outside of cars? And you're going to fumble to hit a "tag" button on a docked ipod while driving? Greeeeeat idea.

And here I was hoping iTunes Tagging meant they'd introduce a more robust tagging feature in iTunes to complement/replace the inadequate ID3 tags.

zzzzzzzzzzzz If this is true, I sure hope that this is the first thing that his Steveness introduces and not the last. 2 words: iPod socks.

There seems to be a misunderstanding...

HD(Hybrid Digital) radio is free. It's the same as FM radio, except it's broadcast digitally using a modified AAC codec, instead of using Frequency Modulation. It's cd quality broadcasts over the air... for free. Currently, there are no DRM systems in place, the protocol does not support it. Even if it were, it would be stupidly easy to rip them. The music industry is welcoming the iTunes tagging, instead of recording the song, you will save it for later to purchase it.

Think of Hybrid Digital radio as the equivalent of HD over-the-air broadcasts on your TV. No one is screaming that High Definition TV broadcasts are going to bomb are they? Good riddance to FM, it's old technology.

@russdogg

Same here man, I hear alot of new stuff on Sirius and always need to try and remember what I heard.

Why would I ever wanna dock my iPod to a HD radio? If I wantet a radio I‘d buy a mp3 player from Creative! The only radio for the future is the internet radio!