iTunes tagging comes to London iPod nano owners: a European first
By Thomas Ricker 
posted November 26th 2009 5:30AM
posted November 26th 2009 5:30AM
posted November 26th 2009 5:30AM
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@yoddel Let me guess, that links sells viagra, and I get a special discount.
I'll be honest. The "Now with Extra Europe!" floored me. LOL. Sue me
@blitzkrieg It's the Final Countdoooown....
Not interested... I rather carry around a nice phone.
Great...I have a "superior" iPod Touch with no radio and no camera. Bleh.
@r3loaded
B-b-but..... it's a great game machine!
that's actually very useful if u ask me
Great and when does this uber feature reaches the rest of Europe?
Nobody in europe wants or needs it, why would you care?
@Wwhat Because I live Europe and often hear songs on the radio I would want to buy, but I don't know their names.
People still listen to the radio?
I mean sure, when you're in a bar or something you have to listen to it (and that's painful enough), but listening to it on purpose?
@Endadget
you don't drive much do you?
@(Unverified)
I do, but I listen to my own music if I can.
@Endadget
I listen to Radio 1 podcasts instead of the actual radio. I hate the pop music but like the presenters.
So, podcasts are the way forward.
Getting sick of you Americans lumping the UK in with Europe, Its not even a part of the same continent as Europe, thats like me saying North America, South America and Canada are all apart of the USA
@Sheppard Um, You know that Canada is part of North America, right?
@Sheppard - I marked you down because you are an ignorant idiot.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Europe
@Sheppard
The law, various international treaties and geographical convention would disagree with you. That’s like saying Japan and Korea or Australia and New Zealand and not on the same continents.
@Sheppard
I really hope you aren't in charge of anything important in your job. Chicken factory for you...
Sheppard = troll
@Sheppard
As a brit that made me chuckle
@Sheppard Actually, the UK is part of the EEC, EEA and the EU (European Economic Community, European Economic Area and the European Uniion).
We are also on the same "Eurasian" tectonic plate.
I'd say that pretty much makes us Europeans, don't you?
@Sheppard
Oh, you appear to be lost sir. This is Engadget, for gadgets.
For Xenophobic or nonsensical whinging you need the 'Have Your Say' forum on the BBC news website:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/talking_point/default.stm
Happy to be of service sir.
@Sheppard I for one was overjoyed that part of the American media distinguished correctly between all of the place names mentioned.
@maty
congrats for feeding the troll
@Sheppard Congrats, you are dumber than the average American teenager.
Nice piece of viral advertisement for this radio station. In fact you can tag songs on the iPod nano even in Europe since it came out (supposed the radio station transmits radio text).
Great Britain is actually less than the United Kingdom.
Officially we're the "United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland". Great Britain doesn't include Northern Ireland, United Kingdom does.
Sorry, just a pedantic Brit trolling Engadget again. :)
I don't live in London, nor do I have an iPod. Good for those who do though?!
@maty You said pedantic. I only ever hear the guys on Top Gear use that term.
Once they get this working with 95.8 Capital FM it might become useful!
Good to see the the art of being pedantic isn't dead yet :D seriously though, whenever I've used the radio to listen to the football in London on any mp3 player the reception is always dire.
@maty
Pedantic, yes, but you saved me the trouble of pointing out this journalism cock-up. Technically, it should have gone in the following order:
* British Isles
* United Kingdom
* Great Britain
* England
* London
* Bit of London
So I'll see your "pedantic" and raise you an "irritatingly pedantic"...
Australia next please.
@BeauGiles
Tagging is already possible in Australia - with the Zune HD and an RDS-broadcasting station like b105 or Nova in Brisbane.
http://img40.imageshack.us/img40/3286/p1000451s.jpg
You can then hit the 'add to cart' button on the lower-right hand side and download it over wifi.
RDS song name data isn't broadcast during syndicated shows, but is usually on during other times.
will try that out tomorrow - even tho Absolute Radio sucks
why did apple go with such an underused technology, when things like RDS have been around for years and have much greater coverage? They usually broadcast the artist/track name which can be tagged and later searched for in itunes.
@mrklaw I think a lot of it has to do with accuracy. The Zune has had this feature since version 3 using RDS, but being able to find the correct song was hit and miss because of inconsistent tagging on the radio station's behalf. That said, the HD radio in the Zune HD is almost always right, when the station is broadcasting in HD.
"A European first"...
Last time I checked, 'European' starts with a vowel...
The grammar is getting noticeably worse at engadget...
"Bacteria-killing prototype relies on plasma, could obsolete hand washing"
Surely that's "...make/render hand washing obsolete"
@steveed It doesn't matter if it starts with a vowel, "An European" is wrong. If the first vowel sounds like a consonant, and it does in European, then you use "A" and not "An".
Grammar nazi fail
@c0n0r I stand corrected - Perhaps I can blame my Welshness, since we use Y as a vowel too.
Please keep your 'Nazi' to yourself though, or at least capitalise.
Actually, it should have gone
UK
Great Britain
England
Britain is interchangeable with the UK, but Britain and Great Britain aren't the same thing. Great Britain is just that big arse island with Scotland, England, Wales and Cornwall on it.
@(Unverified) I just logged in to comment exactly that :P
BUY MOAR MUSIC!
LOL who listen to FM radio, internet radio is where its at
I still love how Apple treats this as though no one but they could have ever come up with something like it....even though their primary competition had it a year before they did, with better techonology
Better when it comes to Bristol
I LOVE THAT SONG