In article , John Stumbles
wrote:
I'm looking for a portable radio with the ability to play back music
from a memory card[1] when there's nothing good[2] on the radio. This
seems to point in the direction of DAB + SD where the SD is intended for
recording from the radio but can also play back mp3s. These sorts of
things seem to have the ability to 'rewind' radio (presumably only off
DAB, not FM) so I'd be choked if it couldn't record what it's rewound,
e.g. if I suddenly find myself listening to something I'd like to record
I can rewind back to the beginning and record from there.

Apart from that I'm after something fairly rugged I can take out when
I'm working and might get a few knocks and some dust (another reason not
to go CD) with decent sound for classical music as well as pop in a
noisy environment, but not too big - more cerial-box size than
ghetto-blaster.

If you have a wifi network that covers the area where you'd use the radio,
then a possible alternative might be a portable 'net radio'. That may also
give you access to the BBC 'listen again' and sound files hosted by your
computer. Thus giving more choice than what happens to be on live radio at
the time.

Slainte,

Jim

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