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Welcome to RadioWeave! top
With RadioWeave, you have complete control over your listening experience, which can include your favorite songs, real-time tweets from friends and entertaining podcasts, as well as automatic breaking news updates and local weather and traffic reports all rolled into a blended audio stream. The stream is an audio mashup of all the channels that you've subscribed to or created.
Other RadioWeave users can also add your channels to blend into their own personalized radio stream. In this way, RadioWeavers can hear an ever-changing, unique, and unpredictable background soundtrack about them, their friends, and things that they are interested in.
RadioWeave is:
- radio for our times
- audio wallpaper
- always different
- always new
- a conversation
- a way to tune out
- opinions
- favorite musical moments
- a companion to your multi-processing, chatting, facespacing, ADD lifestyle
What can I do with RadioWeave? top
Listen. Browse. Explore. Record. Upload. Reply. Grab music clips from Amazon's MP3 library (then buy the full songs if you like them). Type a short message and have RadioWeave speechify it for you. Create Twitter channels for popular Twitterers. Find your favorite podcasts. Get friends to join and contribute.
Maybe you'll create a closed network of your best friends, where you all share short thoughts, snippets of your favorite songs, and weird sounds that somehow escape your mouths when the microphone is on. Maybe you're more interested in hearing the sounds of nature currently being uploaded by travelers around the world. Maybe you want to hear what people at live concerts are uploading over their cell phones. Maybe you want to create the channel "for and about aficionados of weird odors." Or maybe you want to combine all of the above. Whatever.
Like traditional radio, we don't expect you to give your undivided attention to your RadioWeave stream. Instead, you can leave RadioWeave running in the background when you feel the need for some audible wallpaper.
RadioWeave will never replace facespace or mybook or twitku or tumblspot, or Celebrity Gossip Weekly, or professional musicians, or TV. RadioWeave is different, and complementary, to all of those.
Why a 3-second to 1-minute time limit? top
Because we want the listening experience to be interesting and always changing. Give some people 61 seconds and they'll bore you to death.
What sort of content can I contribute? top
| Please don't import copyrighted content. Create cool stuff yourself. |
You can contribute content in many different ways:
- record it yourself from your computer's, iPhone's or other mobile device's microphone
- upload an audio file from your computer
- find a cool preview in Amazon's MP3 catalog
- have RadioWeave grab it from another URL - some places that we know which have cool content are: mp3.com, artist direct, unsigned band web, and findsounds.com. When you find a link to something you'd like us to grab, copy the link to paste into RadioWeave. With Firefox and Internet Explorer, this is done by right-clicking on the link and selecting "Copy Link Location" or "Copy Shortcut". Then return to RadioWeave, right-click on the URL entry box, and select "Paste".
- type in some plain old text which we'll convert into quasi-realistic semi-robotic speech (it actually sounds better than many people after a few beers!)
- create a Twitter Channel. This is one that grabs tweets based on various criteria (like those from a single user or list, or ones that include a specific #hashtag) and converts them into RadioWeave tracks using our text-to-speech engine. Note: to avoid overloading Twitter, we only ask for updates every 15 minutes or so and keep the latest 20 tweets per channel. Thus, all tweets from busy channels are not guaranteed to be ingested.
- import music from your own library for your own listening pleasure
- create a podcast channel to automatically import your favorite podcasts
After you add new tracks to your library, you can place them in any number of channels that you own.
| Please don't import copyrighted content. Create cool stuff yourself. |
Who is this Zaq character? top
Zaq is RadioWeave's mascot and everyone's friend. He knows lots about what's going on within RadioWeave and is always on the lookout for cool content. By keeping tabs on Zaq, you'll always be a cool kid in the RadioWeave community.
How can I stay informed about RadioWeave? top
Occasionally, big changes to RadioWeave will be reported on the login and main RadioWeave pages. If you have supplied your email address, and have not opted out of receiving RadioWeave updates, you may also receive occasional news via email.
If you want to know every little thing going on at RadioWeave, then subscribe to our RadioWeave blog or follow @radioweave on Twitter. We'll blog about any changes or events, no matter how boring.
Contact Us top
If you have any questions about RadioWeave, please send an email to support@radioweave.com.
Legal stuff top
The cool Festival Speech Synthesis System (text-to-speech engine) and voices used by various components are covered by the following copyrights:
- (c) 1996-2004 Centre for Speech Technology Research - University of Edinburgh, UK. All Rights Reserved.
- (c) 2001-2008 Nagoya Institute of Technology - Department of Computer Science
- (c) 2001-2008 Tokyo Institute of Technology - Interdisciplinary Graduate School of Science and Engineering
This website's design is based on the cool Deliciously Blue template from oswd.
The login panel is adapted from the Nice & Clean Sliding Login Panel built with jQuery by Jeremie Tisseau.