FM radio for iPhone!, FM radio for iPhone!

Addendum to my retirement. My intention was only to converse with you and cepheus42, but you seem to have a host of champions (and I a host of detractors). Peace to you as well, Sensei. - ÇÇÇ

ChitlinsCC wrote:

On this 'conversation', I am - falling on my sword...

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Be it extremely blunt.

Cheers and thanks for the American/English/History lesson

Pete

How can we miss you if you won't go away?

The article referring to Apple starting a radio station is not tailing about over the air FM style radio stations. They are talking about fake streaming radio stations like Pandora or Apple radio…

Relating to other comments:

Having one device that contains the FM analog side and the existing digital side isn't all that hard to do.

Regarding advertising, any web radio station or source has plenty of advertising and is getting worse at interrupting service as each day passes by.

The desire to listen to a FM radio station offers the chance to get local up to the minute information by scanning the dial. Can't do that with digital.

Regarding Apple making decisions, they have made plenty of blunders within their product lines as the years have passed, so don't think they are infallible.

Apple has a tendency to attempt to obsolete a technology, even ones it invents i.e. firewire to try and keep ahead of it's competition. The desire to monopolize is strong within the Apple walls, so don't expect global reception of FM miracles.

FM radio is going to be around for a long, long time. Want to listen to a digital streaming boom box that asks you to "Like" a piece of music… and if you don't answer within a given time period, it ends the session, I didn't think so.

For those who have no knowledge of FM listening, open up your world and compare the current popups, sliding or overlay ads and tell me that that they aren't as bad or worse than the 30 second FM radio ads for your local car salesman… that actually go away.

I love that this thread is still going, nearly three years after the OP marked the question answered in the very first reply - from me!

I may raise a glass later.....

warrens50 wrote:

FM radio is going to be around for a long, long time. Want to listen to a digital streaming boom box that asks you to "Like" a piece of music… and if you don't answer within a given time period, it ends the session, I didn't think so.

For those who have no knowledge of FM listening, open up your world and compare the current popups, sliding or overlay ads and tell me that that they aren't as bad or worse than the 30 second FM radio ads for your local car salesman… that actually go away.

For a small monthly fee that I find well worth it, I can listen to streaming music (Spotify is my service of choice) with no ads. Paying that monthly fee to get rid of ads is something I do joyfully. I have no popups. I don't have to "like" anything. For free listening, I'm very fond of Radio Paradise. The iOS app even caches music so that I can listen when I'm in the transit tunnels.

Even more valuable to me is the fact that I can actually find out what's playing. FM radio is about selling ads. Spotify is still mostly about music.

There is also iHeart Radio (and I'm sure others).

I have been an FM listener for 60 years. I have 4 FM radios at home, including an FM tuner in my high end stereo. Plus FM in my cars. I don't use the FM much anymore. Using iHeartRadio and TuneIn I can listen to any FM station streamed over the Internet, including local FM stations. I'm not talking about Pandora, Spotify, or Apple Radio. I don't use any of them. REAL radio stations with real time news, music, commentary and alerts. And I just got an Amazon Echo. All I say is "Alexa, Play WQXR" and my local NYC station plays loud and clear, with far better fidelity than FM ever had. If I want news I say "Alexa, play WINS." When driving, FM is simply unacceptable. If I go more than 30 miles I lose the signal. Driving in a city multipath distortion degrades the quality. For long trips I also have SirusXM, which likewise has many of my radio stations, as well as their 200 channels. FM is dead. Apple knows that. And you will eventually learn it also.

Kilgore-Trout wrote:

There is also iHeart Radio (and I'm sure others).

And tunein.com. Between them you can listen to just about any streamed FM station (not streaming music service) in the world.

Pretty much

That's incorrect. An FM or almost any antenna can be tuned using a coil or transisters. The circuitry is already in iPhone. However, streaming companies " lobbied " Apple to not use this built-in FM radio. As a Federally Licensed Electronics Technician I can easily use any antenna to tune into any ( especially Frequency Modulated ) radio signal. With all due respect sir, stop spreading information without researching the topic first. Thanks.

This thread won't die. Sorry, but you are WRONG. Yes, an antenna can be tuned, but it also has a capture area. If none of the antenna is exposed to the outside it won't pick up anything, now matter how tuned it is. And if only a small amount of it is exposed its sensitivity will be zilch (that's a technical term I picked up in my 50 years as an electrical engineer with patents on antenna designs).

Lawrence Finch wrote:

This thread won't die...

High time someone stuck a stake through it and finished it off.

Kilgore-Trout wrote:

Lawrence Finch wrote:

This thread won't die...

High time someone stuck a stake through it and finished it off.

Do you remember the Flash threads that wouldn't die?

Do I ever!