Timeshifting: Cram More Into Life 432
jimharris writes "The VCR started it - and then the DVR improved it, so now I want to apply the concept of timeshifting in other ways. I've always wanted an audio cassette player that worked like a VCR so I could listen to more radio talk shows. This morning's NY Times stirred my interest with After TiVo, Radio Rewound about a MP3 device that does just that. Better yet, is Replay Radio - software that is more flexible and you can download the results to a portable player.
I already use Audible.com to squeeze in more books in my life, by listening, rather than reading. I've completed 8 unabridged books in two months just by carrying around my Otis player when I get dressed in the morning, driving to and from work, doing housework, or when I exercise.
Now I'm wondering how I can timeshift even more."
Tivo2 (Score:5, Informative)
Speed Up The Audio! (Score:3, Informative)
howard stern listener (Score:5, Informative)
alt.binaries.howard-stern has commercial free shows everyday. you can also find other popular radio talk shows on newsgroups daily. just have to look.
Re:Tivo2 (Score:5, Informative)
No Reg Required (Score:2, Informative)
Radio Shark (Score:2, Informative)
Don't know if this has been released yet. It's been in development for quite a while.
I'm waiting for a Tivo unit with a DVD/R built-in.
Mac users, shift! (Score:5, Informative)
(Now just SHIP the darned thing, Griffin.)
And now you can time-shift to the no-reg page.. (Score:3, Informative)
Re:Question about Otis player (Score:3, Informative)
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NO REG PAGE (Score:1, Informative)
Re:howard stern listener (Score:2, Informative)
Re:College students: timeshifting lectures (Score:3, Informative)
Re:Tivo2 (Score:5, Informative)
Here in the UK we have DAB (Digital Audio Broadcasting) which, with the appropriate PC card or USB dongle can be recorded and MP3'ed at any time. Compact DAB radios are available to carry where we like. Car DAB radios allow us to hear it on the move.
Advertisments, what advertisments? We have the joys of a comprehensive advert free broadcasting system.
Digital radio is also available via digital terrestrial television, digital satelite and digital cable. The digital PVRs which record direct from the digital broadcasts record it in all it's glory.
And it's all free!
Re:Question about Otis player (Score:1, Informative)
If you don't have a cassette adapter, several companies make an adapter that plugs into a headphone jack and outputs an FM signal good for around 30 ft. These things go for about $20-$30. Available at Target, Apple Store, etc...
Re:College students: timeshifting lectures (Score:3, Informative)
http://store.apple.com/1-800-MY-APPLE/WebObject
Re:No more drivsway-moments? (Score:2, Informative)
http://cartalk.cars.com/Radio/Show/
This device existed commercially over a year ago! (Score:2, Informative)
Re:Tivo2 (Score:3, Informative)
Linux timeshifting (Score:2, Informative)
Re:Question about Otis player (Score:3, Informative)
time shifting audio (Score:1, Informative)
ATI ALL-IN-WONDER (Score:5, Informative)
Total Recorder (Score:3, Informative)
Another nice tool (Windows only, sorry) is Total Recorder from High Criteria [highcriteria.com]. It installs an audio driver shim and can record audio from any source. Essentially, if you can hear it on your PC's speakers, you can record it. I use it for time-shifting and for converting RealAudio and other streams into MP3 for my portable player.
Linux Radio Timeshift does the job! (Score:2, Informative)
Since there was only one AM radio tuner for a PC that I could find (and it was USB), I installed an external tuner. It ends up looking really cool [falz.net] to have a 1u rackmount tuner in your rack. Of course if I ever wish to tune to another station, a robotic arm must be built, but I'm content for now.
--falz
Re:Tivo2 (Score:4, Informative)
There's a difference between can't and won't. Won't can be changed to will.
http://www.dealdatabase.com/forum/archive/index
BBC already timeshifts and streams for you! (Score:5, Informative)
It's RealAudio, not Shoutcast, but hey, you can't have everything.
This kind of power gives you interesting abilities. For instance, on my friends mailing list we were joking around pinpointing the exact second at which ex-minister Clare Short realised quite what she'd done by exposing UK spying activity against the UN on the Radio 4 interview this morning.
Re:Ack! Are you serious? (Score:2, Informative)
I for one sympathize and think way too much to do is being made about the putative benefits of "do-nothing" time. I used to listen to music during my 30 minute walk to work. Then I discovered NPR's the Connection [theconnection.org] radio archive. Along with the CBC's Ideas [www.cbc.ca] and much of the BBC. Now my morning and evening walks are a bit more edifying. Pop the real media or mp3 files onto my PDA and go (or if you hate real media, convert them to mp3). Same goes for the original poster. Why listen to morning radio pablum, aweful music and advertising when you can pop in a decent NPR show?
This doesn't mark the end of introspection nor the demise of the patient appreciation of art. It's simply replacing a more convinient, but often less desired media, with one from a different timeslot. So the poster listens to novels instead of music while doing excercise or having breakfast. I hardly think this is sign of an impending heart attack to say nothing of the demise of human civilization.
Re:One word (Score:1, Informative)
Re:Ack! Are you serious? (Score:1, Informative)
Didn't Ray Bradbury talk about that exact phenomenon in Fahrenheit 451? It went something like:
Yeah, I know I've butchered that quote, as I don't have my copy of 451 handy...
Re:Tivo2 (Score:5, Informative)
Re:Tivo2 (Score:4, Informative)
We have the joys of a comprehensive advert free broadcasting....And it's all free!
Maybe you have not heard of the 121 (In April) pound
BBC Television License fee [cambridge2000.com].
I will educate you: This fee is collected by the force of the State and given to the BBC. Even people who never watch the BBC have to pay this money if they posess a television.
Or maybe you are confusing "Free" as in free with "Free" as in "The State gave me this using my and other people's money, no matter if I like it or not."..
In any case, here is a website where you can pay up your "Free"
http://www.tvlicensing.co.uk [tv-l.co.uk]
Faster MP3s (Score:4, Informative)
I find that for spoken word (such as audiobooks), I can increase the playback rate to as much as 150% and can understand and enjoy the material for an extended amount of time. If I am really paying attention, I can play back at 200% for shorter lengths of time & if I'm feeling "distracted," I may have only a ver small increasae in the rate.
I don't know what hardware currently has this feature (I'm sure other /.ers will know & hope they post it, as I'm in the market for a player), but the winamp plugin pacemaker [prohosting.com] works quite well in winamp or Xaudio.
Other ways to timeshift - low tech (Score:4, Informative)
Do your homework the night before it is due, instead of the morning it is due.
And use a VCR to record the radio, it is possible, just leave the radio tuned to the right station and on, and program the VCR to record the Line in if possible.
Timeshifted radio (Score:2, Informative)
Provigil - Better than Speed (Score:2, Informative)
Given our obsession with cramming more life into our lives, sleep seems like an obvious source of extra hours. I'm waiting for this to be the abused drug of choice for geek entrepreneurs. What geek doesn't want more time for projects? Search for Provigil and you'll find numerous Google ads for sleazy online pharmacies that would like to help you get more into your day the modern chemical way.
My productivity enhancement is less chemical. Some caffeine in Mt Dew (is 9 a day too many?), and some electronics. I ignored the MP3 craze for years, then finally gave in recently and bought a 20 GB Rio Karma so I could record library books-on-CD and listen to them while I work on the more mindless stuff.
I've been reading too much /. lately and my productivity has been in the toilet.
Re:Tivo2 (Score:2, Informative)
Re:Tivo2 (Score:3, Informative)
Well I'm sorry to have to say that I also pay taxes and National Insurance. I have no children and no permanent disability. I've never been unemployed. So I am subsidising families and the sick. But I don't care it's part of being a member of society.
The cost of radio is small relative to the cost of television. I pay my licence fee which equates to about $15 a month. Given the quality of the TV programming which, on the BBC, is Ad free, it's well worth it. The fact that I get high quality radio as well is a bonus.
Re:I made a radio "VCR", and it's easy. Try it! (Score:3, Informative)
I described this system on my weblog [cactii.net].