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Alternatives to mainstream Fm stations

  • 06-01-2017 4:35pm
    #1
    prunudo
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,670 ✭✭✭


    So with the apparent demise of the morning talk/music slot on national airwaves what are the alternatives.
    I work outside so just had a small 3xAA battery radio which I generally left on today fm for the day (would have also been 2fm before G.Ryan passed). Listen to Radio Nova a bit too but depends on my location.

    So what are the alternatives now?
    Can you get portable internet/dab radios, and if so what sort of data usage do they use as I won't be wifi?

    Should say that I'm living in Co.Wicklow so can sometimes get some of the Dublin stations but reception isn't great.


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  • #2
    snubbleste
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 31,117 ✭✭✭✭snubbleste


    Podcasts.
    you can podcast anything really. Why limit listening to Irish shows?


  • #3
    prunudo
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,670 ✭✭✭prunudo


    snubbleste wrote: »
    Podcasts.
    you can podcast anything really. Why limit listening to Irish shows?

    Pardon my ignorance but can you pick them up via internet radio or would you have to download them first on the phone and listen back or can you listen on the go?


  • #4
    snubbleste
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 31,117 ✭✭✭✭snubbleste


    jvan wrote: »
    Pardon my ignorance but can you pick them up via internet radio or would you have to download them first on the phone and listen back or can you listen on the go?
    You download and listen.
    It's not live, as it were.
    You can download audiobooks, music, news shows...
    You can also download and put them on an mp3 player


  • #5
    prunudo
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,670 ✭✭✭prunudo


    Ah right, sounds like lot of faffing around. Don't know if it would be a long term solution.

    How much data would an Internet radio use if you to listen to the likes of the bbc stations or other stations on tune in.


  • #6
    Dan Jaman
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 40,069 ✭✭✭✭Dan Jaman


    jvan wrote: »
    Ah right, sounds like lot of faffing around. Don't know if it would be a long term solution.

    How much data would an Internet radio use if you to listen to the likes of the bbc stations or other stations on tune in.

    Ignore the typo near the end, where Gb/h means Mb/h.
    http://www.hypebot.com/hypebot/2013/08/how-much-of-your-broadband-allowance-does-internet-radio-consume.html 
    Вашему собственному бычьему дерьму нельзя верить - V Putin




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  • #7
    prunudo
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,670 ✭✭✭prunudo


    Dan Jaman wrote: »
    Ignore the typo near the end, where Gb/h means Mb/h.
    http://www.hypebot.com/hypebot/2013/08/how-much-of-your-broadband-allowance-does-internet-radio-consume.html


    Thanks for the link. Can't believe how much of your data allowance you would use.


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