Doc Searls Weblog » “Windows Media” http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/doc Same old blog, brand new place Tue, 14 May 2013 12:47:01 +0000 en-US hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.4.1 http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/ Digging KGSR http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/doc/2009/03/14/digging-kgsr/ http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/doc/2009/03/14/digging-kgsr/#comments Sat, 14 Mar 2009 11:10:24 +0000 Doc Searls http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/doc/2009/03/14/digging-kgsr/ Until I hit SCAN on the little radio I carry with me on trips, I had forgotten how much I enjoyed KGSR/107.1 the last time I was here at SXSW. They’ve added some power since then (up from 39kw to 49kw), but their stream still plays hard-to-get. There appears to be no .mp3 stream coming from the station (so forget using it on iPhones*), and one can only listen live in the browser, with a pop-up window that doesn’t work (at least for me).

They do note that they are in “HD”, which is audible only on a few expensive radios that almost nobody has, since the radio industry decided that HD needed to be a proprietary play, coming to the world only by grace of a company called Ibiquity. I could get started, but it’s not worth it. (Go here and click on “buy a radio” and see what happens.)

Anyway, if you’re in town, give it a spin. As I said three years ago here, great radio lives.

*[Later...] Thanks to Rod K, I am now listening to KGSR on my iPhone. WunderGround Radio did cost $5.99, and it took me awhile to find where in the app’s vast directory tree the radio listings were stored, but once I got there I was very impressed. And quite surprised that one can listen to a Windows Media stream. I sit corrected on that.

I still wish KGSR also had an .mp3 stream, but it’s still good to be able to hear them in any case.

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