I've recently acquired an interesting iPod dock. Well, it's interesting if you look at from the angle of it's a radio with a bolted on iPod dock.
With a proviso that the radio part only picks up FM. Oh and that odd little technical exercise called Terrestrial Digital Radio, or DAB for the continental set
amongst us.
Now while the land of roaming kangaroos & many dangerous critters (some called 'sheep') has been experimenting with it for awhile, it's only
been freed from the labs & the Techies and placed into the hand of the public, in the past month. Just with the small twist of using the 'new'
version: DAB+ which not many places are using yet.
As such all the currently available DAB+ receivers are mantle to hi-fi component sized bits of gear. Alarm clock/radios are on the TBA/TBD lists.
Which leads back to the iPod. I'm using that as the alarm clock source. Something it does quite well, provided I can come up with an appropriate morning
wake-up playlist. For I don't think some of the songs in my collection are anywhere near being a good choice. Does "1812 Overture",
"Telephone! RingRingRing", "Dragostea Din Tei" "Top Gear Driving Songs" or the YTMND soundtracks provide some indication of the
amount of audio chaos present in my iPod. And yes the 'Best of Queen' and "Magic Carpet Ride" are in there too.
So, anyone got a suggestion on a wake-up playlist for me?
--Rod.H (who has provided an early Drunkard's Walk iMix to iTMS)
With a proviso that the radio part only picks up FM. Oh and that odd little technical exercise called Terrestrial Digital Radio, or DAB for the continental set
amongst us.
Now while the land of roaming kangaroos & many dangerous critters (some called 'sheep') has been experimenting with it for awhile, it's only
been freed from the labs & the Techies and placed into the hand of the public, in the past month. Just with the small twist of using the 'new'
version: DAB+ which not many places are using yet.
As such all the currently available DAB+ receivers are mantle to hi-fi component sized bits of gear. Alarm clock/radios are on the TBA/TBD lists.
Which leads back to the iPod. I'm using that as the alarm clock source. Something it does quite well, provided I can come up with an appropriate morning
wake-up playlist. For I don't think some of the songs in my collection are anywhere near being a good choice. Does "1812 Overture",
"Telephone! RingRingRing", "Dragostea Din Tei" "Top Gear Driving Songs" or the YTMND soundtracks provide some indication of the
amount of audio chaos present in my iPod. And yes the 'Best of Queen' and "Magic Carpet Ride" are in there too.
So, anyone got a suggestion on a wake-up playlist for me?
--Rod.H (who has provided an early Drunkard's Walk iMix to iTMS)