My sister and I are both radio enthusiast. You would be surprised to find girls of our age listening to shortwave radio or tinkering with ham sets. Well those were the days when we have time on our hands to go searching on the airwaves! Now, we are lucky if we do get to LISTEN to the radio. Friends tell me that I can always get the same thing with internet radio but it’s never the same. They just won’t understand, I guess!
My sister, who lives in the United States, told me that there’s something called high definition radio which has crystal clear broadcast of over hundreds of FM and AM radio stations which are free to tune in to, as long as we have a HD radio receiver like the Polk i-Sonic ES2.
While normal radios do not have that many radio stations and are not that clear in receiving radio broadcasts, a main difference between these radios and HD radio receivers is the ability for iTunes Tagging.
This means that when a song is played, the name of the artist and song will flash on the screen of the radio. We can then tag it so that we can purchase and download it from iTunes.
This is a particularly interesting feature because no longer do I have to search on the internet every time I like a song that is being played on air because the new breed of DJs no longer mention the song title or artists with their six-in-a-row song playing format. Moreover, I’ve just got myself an iPhone and dying to fill it up with music!
