[clug] Streaming ABC radio

[Steven Hanley]

On Fri, Aug 27, 2010 at 11:56:54AM +1000, Robert Edwards wrote:
> Me again (last one). Actually, the link that Steve found wasn't the
> 5 year-old Ubuntu thread that Google turned up for Ivan, but the link
> to Medibuntu (https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Medibuntu ), which
> includes the win32codecs in the non-free repository.
>
> But a pang of conscience overcame me as I was about to add that
> repository to my machine and I decided not to proceed with
> installing the win32codecs after all. I don't want to have non-free
> codecs on my machine in order to listen to my (tax-funded) public
> broadcaster. Maybe I'll take up Alex's suggestion and write that letter.
>
> I'll just have to try harder to find the source of that interference
> on my AM band. Or maybe setup an AM receiver somewhere else and then
> stream it to my house using Ogg or some other free format (I wonder if
> ABC legal would have a problem with that?).

AFAIR Chris Yeoh has some of the USB radio receives that allow you to
recieve radio from both AM and FM (FM is common in tv tuners but AM is not)
and save the stream onto a computer over usb.

Maybe ask him about the, one could be placed at work somewhere and streamed
to home or somehting like that.

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	    Steve

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