You might be wondering what we’re up to these days. There is no doubt that putting everything together is taking a while, and nothing is ever as easy as it sounds!
But, ‘Stay with me’ (according to Rod Stewart and the Faces on Absolute Classic Rock!)
On the website, we’ve added a few links to help you manage your ReplayRadio. You will need to register your device so that you can easily manage which radio stations you’d like to see on your ReplayRadio. The list will grow to thousands, but this way you don’t have to scroll through them all – just the ones you’re interested in. You can change what’s in the list any time, then just use the “Update RadioList” in your ReplayRadio menu.
When you’re listening to the radio, handy song titles remind you what that song is called so you don’t have to ask Alexa. Then, recording them is just 1 button press away. Or maybe you set a timer to record whilst you were out. Either way, head over to the streams menu and you can scroll through them all. As a song title pops up, or yesterday’s traffic report, you can quickly skip over the stuff you don’t like. Or go back to hear it again!
From any recorded stream, pop into the editor to find the bits you want to keep. Like ‘Surrender’ by Cheap Trick that’s playing now. It’s been ages since I last heard that one. To mark it out, you can move back and forth by a fraction of a second, quickly removing the end of that advert you’ve heard a thousand times. Automatic fade-in and out does the rest when saving the song to your virtual tape. The hard bit is deciding which side of the tape to save it to, because like real tapes, songs are laid down in the order you save them!
When you’re done, the tape player menu lets you quickly find the song names, then just press play to hear the rest! Well, you do have to change sides at the end of the tape.
We’ve also started to integrate the power supply and battery, which should give you many hours of playback, recording and editing without being tied to the wall.
We’re still working on the enclosure, hopefully we can update you with some pictures soon! In the meantime, please don’t forget to tell us which radio stations you’re listening to, and stay healthy in this current climate of Covid.