popcatcher musicdock cuts commercials and talk from broadcasts

January 24th, 2007 post a comment (1) stumble it! by: technabob

If you’ve ever wanted to record FM broadcasts to your MP3 player, but didn’t want the commercials or talk in between songs, today is your lucky day.

PopCatcher Music Dock

The new PopCatcher MusicDock MD-601 is a portable MP3 player and a standalone FM-radio dock that can capture FM broadcasts to MP3, commercial-free. The dock automatically discerns music from talk and commercials, then records only the music to the MP3 player. Tracks are cleanly extracted in 192 kbps format, and can be easily transferred to your PC or other media player. The PopCatcher costs roughly $214 USD and is well worth a look for DRM-haters everywhere.

According to this review on Scandanavian tech site, Prylfeber, the system is reported to work as advertised, although it doesn’t provide an easy way to automatically assign track information.

[via Gizmodo]

January 24th, 2007 post a comment (1) stumble it! by: technabob

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1. Tony Brueski | August 16th, 2008 at 10:05 am

FM Radio is still a powerfull tool in marketing, but I dont know too many people who would record it for future listening.

I too have an mp3 player, and use it when I go on walks, etc. In my car when I listen to the radio, it is what it is. Sometimes the key things I listen for on FM are in between the commercials. Service Elements, such as Traffic, Breaking News, Breaking Weather reports, local things to do.

My mp3 player is for my mp3’s, my radio is for what I want out of radio.

Tony
http://www.bestradiocommercials.com