I set that TimeShift buffer to one hour and while I was away on lunch, the station I had tuned in had an all-request hour.
#Radioshark cary mac#
My system hung up once - it's the first time in about two years I've had to reboot a Mac by holding the power button for 5 seconds and then turning it on again!I took it to work today and have to admit that I think it works better on Windows 2000.
As our original report said: “ can record audio Internet streams, either scheduled or real-time, from any streaming audio application.” That would be a nice feature, but honestly, it doesn’t seem to be one that’s integral to the product.I just got mine last Thursday! I hooked it up to my G5 and turned system sleep off.
There’s one feature, promised for the RadioShark way back when, that doesn’t exist in the version I’ve been using. And if you check the Accumulates When Closed preference, RadioShark will even continue to record the live radio buffer while it’s closed. This means you can quit out of RadioShark and the program will still grab your scheduled recordings. RadioShark is actually two different applications - the interface application and a background server application. The size of the recording buffer is completely configurable (as long as you’ve got enough hard-drive space), and you can also configure just how many seconds you skip when you press the Rewind and Forward buttons - a 15- or 30- second skip works great when skipping ads. Here, you can listen to music for 30 minutes, then switch to news - and still back up into the music. RadioShark’s time-shifting features work as advertised, although as a TiVo user I found it a little disconcerting to be able to listen to myself changing radio stations - on TiVo digital-video recorders, the recording buffer is wiped out when you change channels. You can play back recording items from within RadioShark’s scheduling window, but an easier path is to set the program’s preferences to automatically add your recordings to a special RadioShark playlist within iTunes. On the right, the Sched button opens up a window that lets you set up or play back scheduled recordings EQ lets you process the radio sound iTunes-style with an equalizer, and TS slides out a drawer below the main window containing “time-shifting” playback features. On the left, the Band button lets you switch between AM and FM the Seek button advances the frequency until it finds a strong signal and the Rec button automatically begins recording what you’re listening to. There are three buttons on either side of the “dial,” and a volume slider right below it. A slider along the top lets you change frequencies - there doesn’t seem to be a way to change frequencies by typing in a number. The main RadioShark application interface is a metallic, iTunes-style window.
#Radioshark cary software#
And I can confirm that the RadioShark software does deliver on what it promises, although (as you might expect from a first version of any software) it’s not without some quirks. What has made the RadioShark a topic of interest over the past 14 months has been its combination of hardware and software. To be honest, a USB radio isn’t very interesting. However, we could only listen to the radio at a small number of sites, so we can’t vouch for what the reception would be like at your home or office. In testing at the Macworld offices and a few residences of Macworld staff members, we found the reception to be decent, although not quite as good as a quality radio.
According to Griffin, the jack also doubles as an external antenna plug.
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