asian1 wrote:
Hi
There is a new automatic FM Radio Recoder to MP3 device from Singapore.
The device only record songs longer than 2 and half minutes, and have built-in advertisement and chatter filter.
Sounds nifty.
Does this device REALLY works?
Dunno, find a review. :-D
Is it possible to use this device in US?
I have a hell of a hard time finding international broadcast band charts. However, devices today generally use universal receiver chips that can operate across the "global" broadcast spectrum. Whether the particular design is this flexible -- and whether components would still have to be replaced, if it is -- would require cracking it open and taking a look.
It would also have to pass FCC regs for consumer electronics in general, whatever those consist of today.
Will RIAA ban this device, because the device enable copyright violation?
The RIAA doesn't have the power to "ban" devices, but they can sue them into oblivion (drawing the government in with the crimes created under the DMCA) or push for legislation to ban them if the existing law can't be interpreted against them.
Recording music from FM radio stations is certainly nothing new, but Sumitronics' learning technology filters out ads and DJ chatter, and records MP3 tracks to any flash-based MP3 player that has an open file system.
Sounds nifty. In the US, the "entertainment industry"'s real "solution" to the "problem" consists of advocating digital formats (which then allow them to express their 'do not copy' intention as metadata), then advocating criminal penalties for those who do not honor same.
This is, as most everyone else notes, a somewhat bad idea, when you consider what happens if you get one without the other, or what getting both does to our ability to communicate as a species.
(Where do you find all this stuff, anyway?)
