Now Griffin has released the slightly renamed radio SHARK 2 ($50), a modestly revised version that fixes its predecessor’s biggest problem and offers additional software functionality, as well. Recordings could be left on your computer or automatically exported to iTunes for synchronization with your iPod. Billed as TiVo for radio, the original RadioSHARK allowed you to “time shift” live AM and FM broadcasts, pausing any station’s programming in mid-stream, rewinding, fast forwarding, and recording in real time. Nearly two and a half years have passed since Griffin Technology released RadioSHARK (iLounge rating: A-), a $70 AM/FM radio tuner and recorder for PCs and Macs. As with later revisions of the original RadioSHARK, radio SHARK 2 also comes with a USB extension cable to help you position the antenna fin optimally for radio reception. PC users get an additional piece of Windows XP- and Vista-compatible software called SnapTune One, capable of automatically IDing and tagging songs it records, then helping you find higher-quality, purchaseable versions and similar songs online. Now black and slightly retitled, the fin-shaped radio SHARK 2 ($50) is less expensive and a bit better endowed: an updated radio chip and an included but optional antenna together promise better reception than the prior version, while new software adds on to RadioSHARK’s prior abilities to pause, record, and schedule recordings of live radio broadcasts. My next weekend project will be to create a web front-end to shark - perhaps even implement a record-to-disk option.Two years have passed since Griffin released RadioSHARK, a $70 AM/FM radio tuner and recorder for PCs and Macs. Tune in to the stream URL using XMMS, VLC, WinAmp or your favorite audio player, and you sould hear something, at least some white noise.Īfter a few seconds -depending on your audio player buffer size- you should hear the new station. When you reload in your web browser you should get a stream mount point with your newly defined stream. Start up darkice with /usr/bin/darkice -c /etc/darkice.cfg.You should get a status screen without any streams. Start up icecast2 running /etc/init.d/icecast2 start and check out that it’s running by opening.My own configuration goes something like this: Copy /usr/share/doc/darkice/examples/darkice.cfg to /etc/darkice.cfg and edit to taste.Edit /etc/icecast2/icecast.xml and fill out at least the authentication and hostname sections.Check that your brand-new shark is working:.Input: USB HID v1.00 Device on usb-0000:00:10.0-2ĭrivers/usb/input/hid-core.c: v2.6:USB HID core driver Usb 1-2: new full speed USB device using uhci_hcd and address 3 Plug the radioSHARK in the USB port you’ll get this in dmesg:.So how do you get a full-functioning, live-streaming, all-singing radioSHARK working under Debian? This is the list of packages for Debian GNU/Linux: linux-image-2.6.15-1-k7 The program that controls the radioSHARK lights and change the current station is shark.c, but if you get it from you’ll have to copy+paste and clean it up a bit, so you might want to use this ready-to-go shark.c instead. I don’t care much for the time-shifting feature of the Windows/Mac client, and the record function can be replicated with VLC save to disk function or using command-line tools. They recommend ecasound to transcode the audio input to the sound card in a single computer, but I rather use icecast2 to stream the signal to different computers around the house - even to the office or while I’m on the road. The definitive guide for the radioSHARK under linux is at.
So now it was time to move it over to Linux. Not really an option, but at least it meant that that the hardware was working fine. The only way I got it to spit any sound at all was while in audio “test” mode. Trying to get it to run in Windows XP was totally fruitless.
Once the sweet sweet parcel arrived the radio SHARK sat for a couple of weeks gathering dust while I got a moment to play with it. Since it has a nice discount over at amazon I ran out of excuses for not buying one, so I finally ordered it. I have been meaning to get a Griffin radioSHARK with the intention of getting it running on Linux.
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