Re: [slim] I'd Like to Listen to Television Audio on my Boom
aubuti;510974 Wrote: .. I can understand the OP's point that -It seems to me with all we can access, Television Audio shouldn't be that big of a deal.- But even if it's technologically trivial, I doubt there's a big market, and I certainly don't see any of the providers falling over each other to separate the audio stream from the video. I'd guess if there were a big enough market for it (and assuming there were no licensing issues) someone would have come up with an aggregator service to provide this. Like RadioTime but for TV broadcasts. But I'd bet there are a number of issues preventing this: - legal/licensing - few broadcasters (if any) are offering audio only feeds - if broadcasters offered such online content it would likely be restricted to embedded players - TV broadcasting is a visual medium, audio only would make it's most important aspect (i.e. commercials) much diminished - limited consumer interest in audio only TV re-broadcasts As suggested, using computer cable cards and tuners or with some of the current online content, it is likely doable. But the workaround seems awfully complex and limited. I can see some peoples attraction to this whole concept, but personally I use my SB players to get away from the very same TV content others want to add to SB players. -- toby10 toby10's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=12553 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=74476 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] I'd Like to Listen to Television Audio on my Boom
Mnyb;510835 Wrote: Is there analog TV anywhere these days ?? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Digital_television_transition Low Power independent TV stations were exempt from the US FCC mandated switch to all digital by the June 12th 2009 date. They must switch eventually, but like the big digital switch that was delayed a number of times you can bet any such Low Power station mandated switch date will likely be pushed back a number of times. -- toby10 toby10's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=12553 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=74476 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] I'd Like to Listen to Television Audio on my Boom
Is there analog TV anywhere these days ?? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Digital_television_transition -- Mnyb Main hifi: SB3 (soon to replaced by a Touch :) It is on preorder) Bedroom/Office: Boom Kitchen: Receiver (soon to be replaced by my SB3 and the SBRto be stuffed in a box in the attic ) I use a Controller various ir-remotes and a Eee-PC with squeezeplay to controll this Mnyb's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=4143 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=74476 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] I'd Like to Listen to Television Audio on my Boom
PequaFrog;510760 Wrote: That's nuts! There's a LOT of people who used to buy these old television band radios so they can listen to a few stations at least. There HAS to be a better way!!! perhaps in the US, I've never heard of them before though :) -- funkstar my collection: *1*x squeezebox radio *1*x squeezebox touch *1*x squeezebox boom *2*x controller, *1*x receiver *2*x sb3 (sliver/black), *1*x sb2 wired (silver) *1*x sb (black), *1*x slimp3 (with rear shield) interested in any others if you have them! funkstar's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=2335 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=74476 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] I'd Like to Listen to Television Audio on my Boom
this may be heretical, but at least it's simple: Take a smartphone with wifi, tune in the desired program via hulu.com, nbc.com, or other site, and then put the phone face down on the bedside table. I can understand the OP's point that -It seems to me with all we can access, Television Audio shouldn't be that big of a deal.- But even if it's technologically trivial, I doubt there's a big market, and I certainly don't see any of the providers falling over each other to separate the audio stream from the video. -- aubuti aubuti's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=2074 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=74476 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] I'd Like to Listen to Television Audio on my Boom
That's nuts! There's a LOT of people who used to buy these old television band radios so they can listen to a few stations at least. There HAS to be a better way!!! -- PequaFrog PequaFrog's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=31542 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=74476 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] I'd Like to Listen to Television Audio on my Boom
PequaFrog;510760 Wrote: That's nuts! There's a LOT of people who used to buy these old television band radios so they can listen to a few stations at least. There HAS to be a better way!!! Well at least in much of the US, those radios don't work any more. (Areas served by reduced power translators may still get signal, but major metro areas have DTV now, which would need a new radio and I haven't seen any of those.) Add in that cable sort of sucks and 'cable cards' are often needed to get cable on a PC, since many of them have switched away from old analog formats. (Ie cable ready TV no longer means what it used to mean.) This is progress supposedly. -- snarlydwarf snarlydwarf's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=1179 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=74476 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] I'd Like to Listen to Television Audio on my Boom
Honestly, I've never seen a TV Band Radio here in Germany. I do know people, however, who have their TV running all the time with the audio turned -off-. *g* As for your question - is the TV program you want to listen to available as a video stream on the internet? In that case it should be fairly easy to grab the audio of that stream from the video player with the Wave Input plugin and redirect it to your Squeezebox. -- usch usch's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=33389 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=74476 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] I'd Like to Listen to Television Audio on my Boom
There are a few pretty complex ways to get this working, and one simple way, but no I don't think there are any audio only streams of TV stations (not that I've ever heard of anyway. The simple way would be to take the audio output of a cable or satellite box and feed it to the Booms line input. The complex solutions involve TV capture hardware on a PC and several layers of software to extract the audio. All possible, but not easy. -- funkstar my collection: *1*x squeezebox radio *1*x squeezebox touch *1*x squeezebox boom *2*x controller, *1*x receiver *2*x sb3 (sliver/black), *1*x sb2 wired (silver) *1*x sb (black), *1*x slimp3 (with rear shield) interested in any others if you have them! funkstar's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=2335 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=74476 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/discuss
