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Will Net Radio Data Base Reciva go bye-bye? Alternatives? And UPDATE!

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ThaDood:
Then, Boomer referred me to this:     https://www.radioworld.com/news-and-business/headlines/reciva-internet-radio-platform-shutting-down

ThaDood:
Then, there's this. Can I still use my 2007 Sangean WFR-20 wi-fi via this technique? Duh-know, yet, but I'll try it. https://swling.com/blog/2021/03/how-to-give-your-reciva-wifi-radio-a-second-life-before-the-service-closes-on-april-30-2021/

ThaDood:
And them, you have this method.   https://swling.com/blog/2021/04/robs-tips-for-uncovering-radio-station-stream-urls/   Hey... If it works, yea!!!! Some of these Reciva based radios went for $400.00. It would be nice to get a little more use out of them.

~SIGINT~:
There is also concern that radios use a software token for protection https://swling.com/blog/2021/04/do-reciva-wifi-radios-use-a-token-system-lets-prove-or-disprove-this-now/. That functionality would not surprise me at all. Tokens, or certificates, are not uncommon to protect software and firmware from modification or reverse engineering. Additionally, a token based feature would have also allowed then the option to turn the radio into a subscription based system, for example, paid for feeds or packages. Think of it in the same way as a cable or satellite TV box.

Some of these platforms are also compounded with the SiriusXM streaming issues as quoted in the SWling post: "One thing that has gone under the radar here is that several Grace Radio models, in addition to being impacted by the Receva shutdown, can’t stream SiriusXM as of March 31st."

I went through the same heartaches when Sony discontinued the HID-C10 Dash Personal Internet Viewer. I have modded the firmware to chumby but my Dash is now pretty much nothing more than a fancy WiFi clock.

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