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To: Sam Citron who wrote (18)	10/6/2004 4:37:02 PM
From: Biomaven	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 136

Yes - looks like your suggestion was very nicely timed. And the WSJ today also had an article about a "Tivo radio:" 'TiVo' for Your Radio October 6, 2004; Page D1 TiVo, the digital recorder for television, has become such a cult item that folks use it as a verb -- "I'll have to TiVo the Red Sox game on Tuesday." Its fans predict it will replace the VCR as a way to do video "time-shifting" -- to record a TV show so you can watch it at a more convenient time. But what about radio? Is there a way to time-shift radio? This week, my assistant Katie Boehret and I reviewed a new device that aims to do just that. It's the radioShark, from Griffin Technology, and it acts as a sort of TiVo for radio. The $70 radioShark, so named because it looks like a shark's fin, attaches to your PC or Mac via the USB port and enables your computer to play live AM or FM radio using radioShark software. Like a TiVo, radioShark allows you to pause, rewind or fast-forward live programming. But the best part is that you can record songs or talk radio from this live feed. You can play your recordings back within the radioShark software, or send those recordings straight to a play list on Apple's iTunes music software. From there, you can even transfer the recordings to an iPod. Overall, we found the radioShark to be a good idea, but it lacks some of TiVo's smart features. Because it doesn't have program schedules like TiVo does, you can't look through a list of upcoming radio shows to learn what will be on when, what specific song will be played, or which talk-radio topic will be discussed. By contrast, TiVo's schedule grid makes it a cinch to plan your recordings ahead of time. Also, radioShark can't determine where a song or program ends and another begins. Once programming has been recorded, you can use editing software to trim away parts of a recording that you don't want, but this is a pain. And nothing in radioShark's software automatically labels a song with title and artist information; you must enter that data yourself. <snip> Peter