[nylug-talk] Streaming AM radio

[alex@pilosoft.com]

On Mon, 1 May 2006, Ah Pook wrote:

> I think I'm on the right track with this, but just wanted to throw it
> out there so people could say "yup" or "no no, do ___ instead."
> 
> Don't read this if you're a cop or you work for the RIAA.  :-P
> 
> One of my friends moved to lovely ME, the Land Without TV.  
> Unfortunately, he's a big Yankees fan, so he signed up with mlb.tv to
> get the games broadcast.  In somebody's infinite wisdom, they blackout
> the live games since he's in some sort of area of, uhh... blackoutness.
> 
> So!  I figured I could pipe the radio into my laptop and put it on teh
> intarweb and he could fire up Winamp or whatever and at least get that.
> 
> Here's the question: Radio -> laptop -> darkice -> icecast -> him?
yes, that should work.

the cheapo way (and probably good enough quality) is to connect headphone 
output from a radio into soundcard's line in.

-alex