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    Posted: March 05 2007 at 20:04

With lots of people podcasting these days is podcasting the end of radio?. In the early days we use to have so many prog radio stations that it was impossible to chose which one to listen to. Now we only have a few because people are podcasting which I think will be the popular choice in the years to come which will make it impossible for anyone like me to listen to because I don't have an Ipod or anything like it
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Points: 29630 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: March 05 2007 at 21:43
Originally posted by Jon89 Jon89 wrote:

With lots of people podcasting these days is podcasting the end of radio?. In the early days we use to have so many prog radio stations that it was impossible to chose which one to listen to. Now we only have a few because people are podcasting which I think will be the popular choice in the years to come which will make it impossible for anyone like me to listen to because I don't have an Ipod or anything like it

 
Can't say I've ever "podcasted", but I left radio behind a long time ago or did radio leave me behind?  The first time I heard progressive on the radio it was Focus - Hocus Pocus.  Didn't turn me into the prog freak I am overnight.  I basically grew up on radio but gradually started to move away as I got deeper and deeper into prog (late '70's).  As fewer and fewer companies own more and more stations, if there are even any broadcast stations playing progressive, I suspect good new progressive music is getting crowded out.  There's still the college stations, though, where you might catch something new. 
 
If you were talking about internet "radio" rather than broadcast, I did start listening to the progressive channel on AOL (American Online) radio.  Led me to some nice new discoveries, Porcupine Tree, Primus (via Les Claypool's Frog Brigade), Steve Roach, and a few others that don't come to mind immediately.  I don't go there too often any more since discovering this site.  Don't get too big of a head, progarchives.com.
 
As far as the replacement for broadcast radio goes,  I don't know how well satellite radio is doing at providing progressive material (no experience).  But I can speak to digital musical players, ipods, MP3 players.  (Anyone care to share the proper generic term for these things?)
 
I am on my second one (the hard drive crashed permanently on the first one).  I have an extensive CD collection, which has been converted and new ones added all the time.  For the curious, it's a Toshiba Gigabeat 40 gig and I use the WMA and I use 64 Kbps bit rate.  It's mainly for it's portability, beats the old cassette in sound quality.  If I really want to listen totally hi-fi, I still have the CDs and my home stereo.  Some would say even CDs are inferior to the old LPs (depends on your criteria, but I suspect DVD audio should blow that nonsense away).
 
I bet that even if you don't have an ipod now, the technology is rapidly progressing, and you will have one before too long. 
 
Be afraid, be very afraid!


Edited by Slartibartfast - March 05 2007 at 22:05
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