How much of your music/video entertainment is streamed online?
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FM Transceiver (Score:3, Informative)
Buy an FM transceiver. You plug your smart phone into it, tune it to an unused FM frequency and set your radio to that frequency. I used one for many years in my old car before I got one with an AUX input.
Internet radio is the best thing that ever happened to music. It'd be interesting to see the rate of decline in music piracy after Pandora came onto the scene. I bet it was responsible for a bigger reduction in piracy than iTunes/Amazon/etc. It's free (or very cheap if you can't stand the ads) and almost effortless to use.
Spotify a promising alternative to Pandora (Score:4, Informative)
note: I'm not affiliated with Spotify. I'm just very happy with the switch, and I think more people would do online streaming--whether video or audio--if they had access to vast collections of media and the ability to watch or listen offline.
Re:Streamed or downloaded? (Score:5, Informative)
You misunderstand how Vimeo (and YouTube, and many other "streaming" services) work.
In the case of Vimeo, the *.flv video is downloaded, not streamed, and sits on the local hard drive so that the Flash plug-in can play it back. Windows won't let you copy that file as long as Flash has the file open. When you close the browser window, Flash deletes the file.
Unless you create a link to that file, and copy the contents of the link.
$ cd /cygdrive/c/Users/AnonCow/AppData/Local/Microsoft/Windows/Tempor~1/Low
$ cp flash1234.tmp /archive/vimeo.flv /archive/vimeo.flv
$ cp: cannot open `flash1234.tmp' for reading: Device or resource busy
$ ln flash1234.tmp foo
(Close the window, and let the Flash plug-in delete flash1234.tmp. It knows nothing of the existence of link to 'foo'.)
$ cp foo