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Re: RDS car radio



At 01:19 PM 4/3/2003 -0500, DonKelley@aol.com wrote:
>Yes, the RDS data is encoded in the signal.
>
>The really cool thing - and this only works on Greater Media music 
>stations (Magic, WROR, WKLB and WBOS) - when you hit the info button you 
>get the title, artist and year of the song that's playing.  what's more, 
>when you're near the end of the song, or during a stopset, the info button 
>will give you the name of the artist who is coming up next!  How does that 
>happen, you ask??


It happens because all their music comes straight from a hard 
drive...whether there's a live jock there or not.



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