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Whilst on the Radiofeeds web site, I noticed that you can register with them to enable your Reciva radios can use the UK radiofeeds list, in addition to the standard Reciva list.  The radiofeeds list is a smaller more qualified list with just the mainstream broadcasters included, so you don’t have to search through so many small stations on your radio. Radiofeeds use the podcast feature of Reciva radios to supply lists of WMA, RealPlayer and MP3 streams available in the UK.

 You will need to register at radiofeeds  - make sure you provide your full name and type of radio, and they will send you a username to paste onto the end of the podcast streams. The podcast stream information is provided after registration.

It works well.  I have an AE radio using the list right now.

There is a good review of the Tangent Quattro here, along with information about how to sign up for a MyStuff  account at Reciva.

Signing up for an account at Reciva lets you use the greater search features found on their web site, to find Internet radio stations you like, and add them to your own list of favourites. If you register your radios serial number, then that same favourites list shows up on the your Reciva radios!

See how a Tangent Quattro internet radio works here:

http://kampanja.pisa.fi/avk/quattro/index.html 

Enjoy

Out of date I know, but there is a slide show here that describes how last.fm built the largest online music social network, that will be of interest to anyone trying to start or interested in a social networking/ online business.

I read with interest the disruption caused by British rock band Radiohead releasing their latest album In Rainbows via their own web site.  This challenges various aspects of the established business models, in that they are not using a label to release their music which means that they are free to charge what they want. 

When you visit the Radiohead site, you are given the option to choose how much you pay for the album, in an attempt to reduce on-line piracy. However digg have indicated that large numbers of the album were pirated rather than downloaded from their site.  I am not surprised about this, as old habbits die hard, and it will take some time for people who use file sharing sites like The Pirate Bay and TorrentSpy, to change their habbits. 

In the first week over 500,000 illegal copies were made compared to the 1.2 million legitimate pre-orders and downloads.  Forbes reported that Doug Litchman, an Intellectual property profressor at UCLA suggested that “users may have interpreted Radiohead’s offer as a giveaway and so felt more comfortable downloading the album from other free sources”, and that people were not comfortable providing their email address and postal addresses in exchange for the music, something required by the Radiohead web site.