Comments on: Apple iPod Nano – now with FM and Tagging. Is that good? http://nick.piggott.name/blog/2009/09/10/apple-ipod-nano-now-with-fm-and-tagging-is-that-good/ Nick Piggott's blog about the intersection between new media and radio Wed, 9 Mar 2011 11:54:51 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 By: Dietmar Kopitz http://nick.piggott.name/blog/2009/09/10/apple-ipod-nano-now-with-fm-and-tagging-is-that-good/comment-page-1/#comment-10214 Dietmar Kopitz Mon, 26 Oct 2009 10:17:26 +0000 http://nick.piggott.name/blog/?p=171#comment-10214 Music tagging with title and artist information is now easy to implement by broadcasters. iTune tagging using the RDS-ODA feature is just one method promoted by Apple and RadioText/RT+ is another RDS-ODA feature method promoted by the RDS Forum and standardised just now since August 2009. The latter is an open standard that can since three years at least be freely used by broadcasters and manufacturers. Now what is great with this Apple nano is that it implemented both technologies. We have tested this already. The RDS features used in the iPod nano need to be slightly fine tuned on the software design level, as Apple does not seem to have a good understanding yet of what RDS really offers to FM radio as an added value. This is only a matter now of few very little additional development steps. Otherwise this is a great implementation that works wonderfully on FM radio. Hope that other iPod products will use FM radio in this kind of way as well. Music tagging with title and artist information is now easy to implement by broadcasters. iTune tagging using the RDS-ODA feature is just one method promoted by Apple and RadioText/RT+ is another RDS-ODA feature method promoted by the RDS Forum and standardised just now since August 2009.
The latter is an open standard that can since three years at least be freely used by broadcasters and manufacturers.
Now what is great with this Apple nano is that it implemented both technologies. We have tested this already.
The RDS features used in the iPod nano need to be slightly fine tuned on the software design level, as Apple does not seem to have a good understanding yet of what RDS really offers to FM radio as an added value.
This is only a matter now of few very little additional development steps.
Otherwise this is a great implementation that works wonderfully on FM radio.
Hope that other iPod products will use FM radio in this kind of way as well.

]]> By: MC http://nick.piggott.name/blog/2009/09/10/apple-ipod-nano-now-with-fm-and-tagging-is-that-good/comment-page-1/#comment-9507 MC Sat, 19 Sep 2009 12:08:43 +0000 http://nick.piggott.name/blog/?p=171#comment-9507 I wonder if Rockbox can be installed on this one. This could be a hack to try nice dev, independently from Apple. I wonder if Rockbox can be installed on this one.

This could be a hack to try nice dev, independently from Apple.

]]> By: Allen Hartle http://nick.piggott.name/blog/2009/09/10/apple-ipod-nano-now-with-fm-and-tagging-is-that-good/comment-page-1/#comment-9484 Allen Hartle Fri, 18 Sep 2009 00:25:17 +0000 http://nick.piggott.name/blog/?p=171#comment-9484 Hi we (Jump2Go) designed the RDS Tagging system in question. The contractual arrangement between the broadcaster and Apple, is primarily to get the commitment from the broadcaster to Tag, and so the sales commissions can find their way back to the broadcaster. The meta-data we encrypt *before* we send it into the RDS system, so only Apple (or others we provide the keys to) can decrypt it. In this case its the intangibles that really matter, that "Radio" is fun/cool for the iPod generation. Seems to be striking that very chord with a lot of people so far. Mission accomplished. Allen Hartle Jump2Go Hi we (Jump2Go) designed the RDS Tagging system in question.

The contractual arrangement between the broadcaster and Apple, is primarily to get the commitment from the broadcaster to Tag, and so the sales commissions can find their way back to the broadcaster.

The meta-data we encrypt *before* we send it into the RDS system, so only Apple (or others we provide the keys to) can decrypt it.

In this case its the intangibles that really matter, that “Radio” is fun/cool for the iPod generation.

Seems to be striking that very chord with a lot of people so far. Mission accomplished.

Allen Hartle
Jump2Go

]]> By: Des deCean http://nick.piggott.name/blog/2009/09/10/apple-ipod-nano-now-with-fm-and-tagging-is-that-good/comment-page-1/#comment-9329 Des deCean Fri, 11 Sep 2009 02:17:48 +0000 http://nick.piggott.name/blog/?p=171#comment-9329 This is great news. Whilst it might not represent the perfect business model - particulatrly for broadcasters - it is a huge step in realising that radio is still relevant. In fact radio has just hit the cool school big time! As Nick says the ulitimate will be DAB and HD radio on nano, but baby steps might just take us there. Lets hope the sales of the new nano's are encouragement enough for Apple to consider digital platforms in the next generation. This is great news. Whilst it might not represent the perfect business model – particulatrly for broadcasters – it is a huge step in realising that radio is still relevant. In fact radio has just hit the cool school big time! As Nick says the ulitimate will be DAB and HD radio on nano, but baby steps might just take us there. Lets hope the sales of the new nano’s are encouragement enough for Apple to consider digital platforms in the next generation.

]]> By: JM http://nick.piggott.name/blog/2009/09/10/apple-ipod-nano-now-with-fm-and-tagging-is-that-good/comment-page-1/#comment-9324 JM Thu, 10 Sep 2009 21:44:21 +0000 http://nick.piggott.name/blog/?p=171#comment-9324 >to support Microsoft’s new Zune HD Gee there's a punt and a half. Not where I'd invest and time and effort right now. >to support Microsoft’s new Zune HD

Gee there’s a punt and a half. Not where I’d invest and time and effort right now.

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