[SlimDevices: Radio] Local? LOL!
When selecting Internet Radio / Local I live in another country every day. I live in the Netherlands, but in one week I've been in France, Germany, the UK and today I live in Denmark. It's kinda annoying, but funny too - where will I live tomorrow? Place your bets, gentlemen :) -- Hans_NL Squeezebox Radio x2 (black red) MUVID IR 615 (poor man's Transporter) Currently running Fedora 10 on all systems Hans_NL's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=37393 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=77309 ___ Radio mailing list Radio@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/radio
Re: [SlimDevices: Radio] Local? LOL!
You should probably set up and configure a radiotime account, so they don't have to guess your locations based on IP. -- snarlydwarf snarlydwarf's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=1179 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=77309 ___ Radio mailing list Radio@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/radio
Re: [SlimDevices: Radio] Local? LOL!
snarlydwarf;534643 Wrote: You should probably set up and configure a radiotime account, so they don't have to guess your locations based on IP. There isn't much guess work involved when it comes to IP addresses, unless one is using anonymous proxies (which I do occasionally on a notebook to bypass silly region discrimination). The radio however is just plain connected at all times, no proxies involved. All websites I visit know immediately that my location is the Netherlands. I followed your advice though, created an account there, did a reset and now I live in Australia. I'll give it some more time. -- Hans_NL Squeezebox Radio x2 (black red) MUVID IR 615 (poor man's Transporter) Currently running Fedora 10 on all systems Hans_NL's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=37393 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=77309 ___ Radio mailing list Radio@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/radio
Re: [SlimDevices: Radio] Local? LOL!
Hans_NL;534669 Wrote: There isn't much guess work involved when it comes to IP addresses, unless one is using anonymous proxies (which I do occasionally on a notebook to bypass silly region discrimination). The radio however is just plain connected at all times, no proxies involved. All websites I visit know immediately that my location is the Netherlands. oh, really? GeoIP is guesswork with some input from a variety of sources, some of which is public (whois, which, well, is often wrong, since it is the information about the -network- not the host) and some which is private (including things like addresses filled out on orders, which is also wrong since people may very well order something to be shipped or billed elsewhere). My parents routinely 'move' several hundred miles according to Google Analytics. I followed your advice though, created an account there, did a reset and now I live in Australia. I'll give it some more time. You don't need to do a 'reset', you need to attach your MySB account to Radiotime. It can take a while for Radiotime to propogate your location, usually a few hours is sufficient though. -- snarlydwarf snarlydwarf's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=1179 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=77309 ___ Radio mailing list Radio@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/radio
Re: [SlimDevices: Radio] Local? LOL!
Seems it did the trick, only NL stations in the list now. Thanks. -- Hans_NL Squeezebox Radio x2 (black red) MUVID IR 615 (poor man's Transporter) Currently running Fedora 10 on all systems Hans_NL's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=37393 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=77309 ___ Radio mailing list Radio@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/radio
Re: [SlimDevices: Radio] Local? LOL!
Heh. I believe I am in Germany, but when I log in to MySB, they tell me We have detected that you are in a different country than you have selected. The other day my local radio stations were all in Switzerland. When I visit last.fm, I get event recommendations for the Bristol area. And MySpace welcomes me in Dutch. Most of the time this is funny, but it can get really annoying when you are denied access to a service because the provider thinks you're in the wrong country. -- usch usch's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=33389 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=77309 ___ Radio mailing list Radio@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/radio
Re: [SlimDevices: Radio] Local? LOL!
I'm in Mott North Dakota they have 3 radio stations . I've had my radio time account for years it does not help. This was introduced in 7.4 - 7.5 beta somewhere http://bugs.slimdevices.com/show_bug.cgi?id=14944 which was a dupe of http://bugs.slimdevices.com/show_bug.cgi?id=14660 -- 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 SBR to be stuffed in a box in the attic ) Miscellaneous use: Radio (battery pack to be ordered) I use a Controller various ir-remotes and a Eee-PC with squeezeplay to control this Mnyb's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=4143 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=77309 ___ Radio mailing list Radio@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/radio
