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HD Radio Products Will Allow iTunes Tagging

HD Radio Products Will Allow iTunes Tagging

by , 4:50 PM EDT, September 7th, 2007

HD Radio has teamed with Apple on a free service that will allow HD Radio listeners to tag songs for later purchase in iTunes, according to Electronic House on Friday.

The service works as follows: on supported devices, when listening to HD Radio, a song can be selected or tagged. Later, the song will appear in iTunes and can be purchased.

The service is a joint effort between Apple and iBiquity Digital. Broadcasters who participate will need to implement the system on their radio stations.

Right now, the user will need a compatible system, and the only two available in time for Christmas will be the Polk i-Sonic Entertainment System and the JBL iHD. Additional products are expected in 2008 for home and car.

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Subject: tagging on FM radio

The online music service smstunes.com already have this tagging service for most popular US based FM radio stations (no HD), you just need to send a text message with the station frequency, not as easily as pressing a button but still can be useful as you can use it anywhere in US with your mobile, more details here:

http://www.smstunes.com/radio.aspx

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Subject: HD Radio iTunes Song Tagging

I wonder how long till this gets hacked so that when you tag a song it just records the song to your ipod or tags it and the next time that song is played on the radio the song is recorded on your ipod

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