Until I hit SCAN on the little radio I carry with me on trips, I had forgotten how much I enjoyed KGSR/107.1 the last time I was here at SXSW. They’ve added some power since then (up from 39kw to 49kw), but their stream still plays hard-to-get. There appears to be no .mp3 stream coming from the station (so forget using it on iPhones*), and one can only listen live in the browser, with a pop-up window that doesn’t work (at least for me).
They do note that they are in “HD”, which is audible only on a few expensive radios that almost nobody has, since the radio industry decided that HD needed to be a proprietary play, coming to the world only by grace of a company called Ibiquity. I could get started, but it’s not worth it. (Go here and click on “buy a radio” and see what happens.)
Anyway, if you’re in town, give it a spin. As I said three years ago here, great radio lives.
*[Later…] Thanks to Rod K, I am now listening to KGSR on my iPhone. WunderGround Radio did cost $5.99, and it took me awhile to find where in the app’s vast directory tree the radio listings were stored, but once I got there I was very impressed. And quite surprised that one can listen to a Windows Media stream. I sit corrected on that.
I still wish KGSR also had an .mp3 stream, but it’s still good to be able to hear them in any case.
For iPod listening the best app I’ve found so far is WunderGround Radio I just tried and it can stream KGSR 107.1 just fine. It is $5.99 but I find it is well worth it as I haven’t found any stations that don’t work, other than ClearChannel. The list of stations is from RadioTime and seems very comprehensive.
http://itunes.apple.com/WebObjects/MZStore.woa/wa/viewSoftware?id=292233889&mt=8
The other streaming app I use on the iPod is fStream from SourceMac. I like it as I can enter my own stations.
http://itunes.apple.com/WebObjects/MZStore.woa/wa/viewSoftware?id=289892007&mt=8
Rod Kratochwill
Looking forward to when you have downtime to “get started” on the HD radio topic 😉
OOTunes (also $4.99) will stream KGSR at 64KB AAC on an iPhone. I’d really like to find an mp3 stream though because OOTunes isn’t a very good radio alarm clock.
Good to know KGSR has AAC now and not just Windows Media. FWIW, I have OOTunes, and Wunduradio, and a number of other radios for the iPhone.