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[–] remon@ani.social 49 points 6 days ago (2 children)

I remember that one station that would advertise that they would play "uninterrupted music" during certain parts of the day. Only to then constantly interrupting it to tell us how they currenlty playing "uninterrupted music".

[–] mindbleach@sh.itjust.works 16 points 6 days ago

I think broadcasters are legally required to announce who's broadcasting, at some minimum interval. I know it affects ham radio - because slow-scan image transmissions worked around it by watermarking their callsign in the image. It'd also explain why Sirius XM does it so goddamn often when every receiver already has a screen.

[–] ironhydroxide@sh.itjust.works 8 points 6 days ago

Remember? That's like half the stations around. The other half don't do "uninterrupted" blocks

[–] TankovayaDiviziya@lemmy.world 36 points 6 days ago (1 children)

What would be playing at your granny's station is Metallica.

[–] diykeyboards@lemmy.world 16 points 6 days ago

Yeah, cuz Granny is friggin metal.

[–] Styxia@lemmy.world 36 points 6 days ago (2 children)

Many years ago my station of choice when driving to work started running an advert for car safety. The sound effect was a loud blaring car horn and the sounds of screaming tires and a crash. The first, second, third time I heard it was instant jolt of panic and left me jittery. I switched stations after the third time.

[–] nebulaone@lemmy.world 13 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago)

Made a greentext out of your story (I took some creative liberties):

be me, driving to work still tired and half asleep

turn on radio loudly to wake me up a bit

suddenly hear the most horrific accident happening

Heartattack.jpg

take a second to compose myself

it was the fucking radio station

fully awake now

MFW

[–] Sturgist@lemmy.ca 9 points 6 days ago (1 children)

And this is part of why I don't listen to the radio while I drive. The other part is because I bought a cheap android stereo and I couldn't be fucked to buy the adapter to hook my antenna up to the stereo.
I guess being lazy is saving me from early morning drive radio jump-scares.

[–] vaultdweller013@sh.itjust.works 11 points 6 days ago (2 children)

Also radio is trash. My phone has like 13 hours of music on it and then YouTube music is practically endless, all I need is an FM transmitter or a tape deck because my car is from 2001.

[–] Sturgist@lemmy.ca 7 points 6 days ago

HA! MAY CAR IS WAAAAAAAY NEWER THAN YOURS!

......2006.

When I bought it, it had an even cheaper android stereo in it. When I was looking for a interim replacement before I spent over £100, I found the one that was installed when I bought it.....for £12.
Ended up with an ~£80 deck that came with a half decent reverse camera, which was almost the only requirement for me other than Bluetooth.
I honestly kinda wish it had come with a tape deck, being on the edge of old I still have a bunch of tapes. Used to have a load of CDRs, but rot got them. 🤷
I have about 60Gb of music on my phone, I'll occasionally switch some of it out for new stuff. I had Google Play Music back in what is now considered "The Day" and now I pretty much refuse to use any streaming service.

[–] Auth@lemmy.world 1 points 6 days ago (1 children)

My car is from 2004, doing a radio upgrade was actually really easy and by far the best thing i did. It cost like $50 and gave me android auto, bluetooth, aux, usb and some other things i dont use. It was basically plug and play.

[–] vaultdweller013@sh.itjust.works 1 points 6 days ago (1 children)

Or I could just not and save fifty bucks.

[–] Auth@lemmy.world 1 points 6 days ago (1 children)

ok enjoy your tapes I guess.

The tape deck has an Aux cord so I'm good.

[–] nebulaone@lemmy.world 50 points 6 days ago (2 children)

I just noticed the headphones in the picture are Audeze LCD 2, I think. Expensive AF. In case anyone wanted to know that.

[–] EvacuateSoul@lemmy.world 37 points 6 days ago (1 children)
[–] nebulaone@lemmy.world 20 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago) (1 children)
[–] ryedaft@sh.itjust.works 2 points 6 days ago (1 children)
[–] whoisearth@lemmy.ca 2 points 6 days ago

Who's all in?

[–] BakedCookie@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 6 days ago (1 children)

I had them for all of 5min before returning them- they're heavy af. My neck ain't built to sustain that kind of weight.

[–] nebulaone@lemmy.world 3 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago)

Never tried them. The best headphones / "earspeakers" I ever tried were Stax. They blew me away. 2k $ tho. I have the much more reasonably priced Sennheiser HD 650 and AKG 712 pro with a FiiO DAC/AMP, which are both light and comfy.

[–] Etterra@discuss.online 8 points 6 days ago

And that's the other reason I didn't listen to the radio.

[–] merc@sh.itjust.works 11 points 6 days ago

Also, this announcement but first: "You're listening to another ad-free power-half-hour on KKKK", with that ad for the station repeated every 10 minutes.

[–] Kolanaki@pawb.social 12 points 6 days ago (2 children)

You still hear music on FM radio and not just ads the entire 20 minute car ride?

[–] BakerBagel@midwest.social 6 points 6 days ago (1 children)

I live in a small college town in rural ohio. I listen to our local golden oldies radio station in my car because the songs are great, the ads are mostly local businesses, and i get local news from it. Although we also get a lot of Medishare scams, snake oil from supplement companies. But the ads are much better than the radio back when I lived in Houston 10 years ago. Even the Cleveland stations are pretty light on ads these days.

My main gripe with my local station is that the small conglomerate they are in all play Christmas songs at the same time in the winter. I understand the incentive behind synching up ads across your controlled stations, but why do they all insist on playing Christmas carols at the quarter hour across all channels? I fucking hate Christmas carols.

[–] mindbleach@sh.itjust.works 3 points 6 days ago

Some industries go 'we have to do [blank] because that's the most popular thing' and some industries go 'we can't do [blank] because everyone else is doing [blank].' Inevitably the latter get infected with executives from the former.

[–] Iceblade02@lemmy.world 2 points 6 days ago

Yes!

FM radio has to compete with (free) Spotify nowadays given that 4g coverage is pretty ubiquitous, at least where I live. This means they can't stuff too many ads in there.

[–] Ludrol@szmer.info 8 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago)
[–] MNByChoice@midwest.social 5 points 6 days ago

Do Grannies listen to "imagine dragons - radioactive"?

... There are old Grannies and there are young Grannies.

[–] Gowron_Howard@lemmy.world 5 points 6 days ago
[–] napkin2020@sh.itjust.works 2 points 6 days ago

Ah yes, but rock

[–] Cruxifux@feddit.nl 138 points 1 week ago

This isn’t even an exaggeration.

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