Tag Radio Songs, Buy Later on iTunes

Nina 09-08-2007

A new service from iBiquity Digital, a company that develops HD radio technology, is teaming up with Apple and various radio broadcasters for tagging songs to be purchased at iTunes.

This tool lets you “tag” songs with your HD radios that have been manufactured by Harman International Industries’ JBL unit, and Polk Audio. The service will then keep a running list of all the songs you’ve tagged, which are connected to your iTunes account. The next time you’re on iTunes, you’ll have a ready-made list of songs to purchase. So far, Clear Channel Communications has signed on board to work with this tagging feature, launching it across hundreds of stations. Several other unnamed broadcasters have signed on for this deal as well. It will be interesting to see how this technology can be expanded in more ways, with other HD technology and beyond.

I think it’s a great way to find out what song you’re listening to on the radio, and gives the traditional media venue a good way to connect with Internet culture and provide more value to consumers. This may be a step in the right direction for maintaining and/or increasing ad revenue, according to an eMarketer report. While this set up does limit you to a small combination of participating companies, these companies are likewise limited to a small number of consumers. No doubt, this level of offline integration for some kind of instant gratification will be appealing to many, and can hopefully be extended to more devices, in more ways. We already see mobile phones outfitted with a semi-useful song recognition technology, and surely this setup can be incorporated with the iPhone in some fashion.

Dream

Ok how many people actually have an ipod/itunes and still listens to the radio. This just sounds like someone didn't do a poll before going ahead with this idea.

Hsoolien

A slightly better implemented feature (and I'm not sure if it still exists or what) was one cell company up here had it so you could call a certain number, have your phone listen to the song, and it would text you back the song and artist. Cost like 50cents or something per song identified mind you...

SamiJo

Don't they have something like this for Verizon Cell phones?

and like dream said, this is assuming people that have ipods are listening to the radio

Ice

Sami you right but actually Verizon and Cingular both have similar features like that. Although I hardly anywhere hearing a song I haven't heard a thousand times now. But even if you didnt' have an ipod who is really listening to the radio these days, pop a cd in and your set.

Raven

This rally sounds like it wasn't thought out that much. If you have an ipod most likely you not listening to the radio, and if you listening to the radio then most likely you don't have an ipod. People stupidity seems to be really growing and just throwing any idea out there and no seems to the catching the ones that need to stopped.

Hsoolien

I think some people here just don't understand how much other people rely on the radio to inform them about new music out there, so they do indeed have an ipod but still listen to the Radio

Jessica

I notice something becuae of this. I've had an ipod for a while now. Well I remember some time ago maybe almost 2 years ago I got a new battery in my car. You know I haven't set the memory stations, its just pointless when you have an ipod.

SamiJo

HA! thats me since i moved! I still have my houston stations, oddly enough a few of them are stations here but still, I keep CD's and my iPod or just keep the radio off, I just thought about that when I read that Jessica, funny stuff.

Nina

Well I have a cd changer and an ipod. Radio stations aren't set for me since I changed my battery either. I have no idea what cd's are in there since I haven't played them in forever, they may be warped by now. I just in the car, hit play on the ipod and I'm set.

Dream

Most of the new music I hear is when I hanging around people like music they playing in their car or at their place and I hear it and it sounds good and I'll ask them who it is.

Hsoolien

I know of at least three people (not that I know all that many people mind you) that own an iPod but still willingly listen to the radio to find new stuff. myself, I rely on punk compilations, as the Atari's put it:
"Every now and then
I turn it on again,
But it's plain to see that
The radio still sucks!!!"

Raven

I barely listen to the radio since the radio doesn't have the right song in the mood I want, but my kitchen radio doesn't have a cd player and mtv (music television) doesn't play music any more.

Hsoolien

99% of the radio I listen to is at work (which at my current job is oldies, think 60's/70's), which I 99% ignore since it's in the barber half of the shop, the other one percent is in other peoples vehicles.