If I mount the RadioShark higher in the building I can get slightly better reception, but not clear enough to listen for any length of time. I should point out that my alarm clock can pick those other stations with no problem. I can only clearly pick up one radio station in our city, all the others have static on them, and the stations that I listen to that are out of town are completely out of the question. It simply doesn’t have enough range in my area. Here lyes my single biggest complaint about the RadioShark. It’s just something that Tivo users have become accustomed to, and it’s hard to get used to using the software without it. I’m not sure, however, if it would even be possible to provide a guide for every radio station in the world (or even in the US for that matter)…so I can’t really fault the RadioShark for not having that feature.
The only major flaw in the software is the lack of a guide of any kind for the radio stations. It also does a good job of recording longer shows…again, talk shows for example….without too much trouble. Recording is easy enough, and if you wanted to, it is precise enough where you could go in, select only one portion of a recording (say, a talk segment…certainly not a song…that would be wrong) and separate it for easy listening later on. Other than that, it functions pretty well.
#Radioshark music skin
The RadioShark software looks kind of like a Winamp Skin from 1994, and doesn’t quite match the style or coolness of the device itself.
They glow an eerie red whenever the unit is recording, so you always know when it’s working. The RadioShark looks right at home next to my Mac Mini, and the lights are a nice touch.
It looks like a slick white shark fin, with three illuminating lines on each side of the it. The look of the device, I have to say, is pretty cool. It’s a great concept, but the overall functionality of the device is a mixed bag. The Griffin RadioShark has been out for a while now…basically, it’s a Tivo for radio.
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