Thursday, September 15, 2005

Radio ghosts

this is an audio post - click to play

Don't you hate when you scan thru your radio dial, and you catch a snippet of a tantalizing song? You sit waiting for the DJ to announce the artist but this radio deity has other things on his mind. I actually miss simply turning the old knobs. Now we have buttons. Joy. Joy. Anyway, click the audio to hear one example of a song in Portuguese whose name I'll probably never learn. Were the lyric fragment in English, I might have luck Googling it. I've done so in the past with decent success. I understand that the satellite radio services have a digital display that announces artist and song. I further understand that the digital (HD) radio sets should have this as well. I won't be surprised that no one will think to include a button to announce this information in synthetic speech for the blind musicoholics out there!!