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[–] [email protected] 37 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (6 children)

i remember old ipods could listen to the radio using the headphones as an antenna and i thought it was the coolest thing in the world. listening to a live feed like that is so much more...viscerally satisfying than just streaming a song or even listening to internet radio, where it could easily be just a computer. it's nice knowing someone is actually creating a show for you in real time

[–] [email protected] 25 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Sadly 95% of the shows are just computers with a pre-loaded playlist. Still fun to know though that you are listening with a lot of other people together.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

The shows don't really exist anymore. At least not in my area. Well over a decade ago they were all replaced by playlists and commercials.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

You could check out NTS Radio - so many shows from a very wide variety of genres, and they have an archive of every episode

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

Only a couple of the final pod nanos had built-in radio, the other iPods all required additional hardware to be plugged in. I found that the hard way with an iPod classic... Even my shitty flip phone had built-in radio with an earpiece connected lol.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago

Uh, no. It entirely depends on the station. My wife has radio stations in her car that sound almost 100% prerecorded and edited together - I can never tell if someone is actually talking now or if it's just a snippet from a previous recording. However, if I listen to a very specific radio station from my home country, which I can only get via internet stream, it still feels like listening to the radio. The way of listening has nothing to do with it, it's all in the station's programming.