{"id":128,"date":"2004-06-02T14:30:57","date_gmt":"2004-06-02T19:30:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.tigoe.net\/blog\/category\/networks\/128\/"},"modified":"2008-01-18T14:31:52","modified_gmt":"2008-01-18T19:31:52","slug":"air-tivo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tigoe.com\/blog\/category\/networks\/128\/","title":{"rendered":"Air-TiVo?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Allan Englehardt sent me a link to a new product, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thebug.com\/\" target=\"_other\">the Bug<\/a>, which is essentially a TiVo for Digital Audio Broadcast (DAB).  <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cybaea.net\/Journal\/The%20Future%20of%20DAB.html\" target=\"_other\">Allan&#8217;s notes<\/a> on it are here.  The basic premise of it is that DAB is just transmission of a digital data stream, so there&#8217;s no reason you can&#8217;t put a hard drive in the radio (or just a bunch of RAM) and give it the radio a buffer, so you can pause the broadcast. Pretty nifty.<\/p>\n<p>Would it be possible to extend this a bit? How are songs encoded on a digital audio broadcast?  Are song titles in the header?  Would it be possible to combine the technologies in the Bug with a frequency scanner and create a sort of super Air-TiVo, that scans the airwaves for songs you&#8217;re interested in, and saves them when they&#8217;re played?  Could that be taken a bit further, and combined with Bluetooth, 802.11, or another short-range radio protocol to make a wireless P2P system, in the spirit of the Bass Station, combined with <a href=\"http:\/\/bluewalk.sourceforge.net\/\" target=\"_other\">BlueWalk<\/a>?  How many lawyers would the RIAA throw on this grenade, I wonder?<\/p>\n<p><!-- technorati tags start --><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:right;font-size:10px;\">Technorati Tags: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.technorati.com\/tag\/networked objects\" rel=\"tag\">networked objects<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.technorati.com\/tag\/networks\" rel=\"tag\">networks<\/a><\/p>\n<p><!-- technorati tags end --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The basic premise of it is that DAB is just transmission of a digital data stream, so there&#8217;s no reason you can&#8217;t put a hard drive in the radio (or just a bunch of RAM) and give it the radio a buffer, so you can pause the broadcast&#8230;.  Would it be possible to combine the technologies in the Bug with a frequency scanner and create a sort of super Air-TiVo, that scans the airwaves for songs you&#8217;re interested in, and saves them when they&#8217;re played?<\/p>\n<div class=\"more-link-wrapper\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.tigoe.com\/blog\/category\/networks\/128\/\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Air-TiVo?<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-128","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-networks","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tigoe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/128"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tigoe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tigoe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tigoe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tigoe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=128"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.tigoe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/128\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tigoe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=128"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tigoe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=128"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tigoe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=128"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}