Do you use the radio in you car? I do.

AMKC

There is a new demand to replace radios with devices that have direct online access :( .

Why can't new cars have both?

lertsnim

I'd use the FM radio only on weekends really. Weekdays I listen to music, online radio etc. via Bluetooth.

NIMAN

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/2058359199/do-you-use-the-radio-in-you-car-i-do

They do.

I listen to the radio in the car. I also listen to Spotify, BBC Sounds etc via Android Auto/my phone.

Atlantic Dawn

I'd probably listen to the radio 25% of the time and either stream music or play from USB the rest of the time. I wouldn't buy a car that didn't have an inbuilt radio.

Madd002

I have 3 favourite channels I flick between in morning and on drive home from work, Spotify long journeys. Same as above I wouldn't buy car without one.

Comhrá

I listen to the radio 95% of the time. Very occasionally I use Android Auto and/or a usb stick for playing music.

I can't imagine owning a car without an FM radio.

o1s1n

I didn't realise folks still relied on the radio so much. Don't think I've really listened to radio stations since the late 90s / early 2000s.

It's all Bluetooth music whenever I get in the car.

MrMusician18

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/2058359199/do-you-use-the-radio-in-you-car-i-do

Its not really a demand, rather its lack of demand. The direction of travel is that more and more people are using streaming services to keep themselves entertained in-car and if people are not using FM then its a cost ripe to be cut. Almost all FM radio services can be listened to through streaming like audials.

The bit in the media today is the Radio industry preempting the shift to new consumption methods and defending their patch. If FM radio goes the way of AM in cars, then the medium is finished.

Hooked

I drive my 07 Opel Astra to work - I only have the radio. LOL

The Continental Op

My radio still has an extended AM tuner that tunes LW so I still listen to BBC Radio 4 Longwave in the car.

_Kaiser_

I listen to FM a fair bit in the car (or FM stations via the RadioPlayer app if I'm out of coverage). Current affairs/news and drive time type stuff.

I use Spotify and even my own MP3 collection a lot though too. Depends on the day and time that I'm in the car really.

Alonzo Mosley

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122367891#Comment_122367891

I drive an 04 Liana and the radio is broke !!!!🙂

SteM

I stick the FM radio on for short journeys. Streaming music/audiobook/podcast/8Radio/Radio Paradise for anything over 30 minutes as the generally inane chatter on FM drives me nuts.

Hooked

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122367908#Comment_122367908

you win

tinytobe

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122367889#Comment_122367889

I think Irish radio will slowly be fading away. Outside of Dublin there is not much choice on FM, and AM from the UK is getting turned off and shut down more and more. There is a good amount of high quality news on BBC Radio 4 on LW but that's to be turned off as well. Also they denied the DAB choice other countries have Ireland, with some lame answers like "we didn't need that technology" or "this ship has saild".

Thus more and more people will be streaming via bluetooth.

Patrick2010

Streaming uses up valuable data for pay as you go users like me! On my drive or walk home I usually listen to the various news stations on the car radio or my mobile with a built in radio.

o1s1n

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122368066#Comment_122368066

Are you on an ancient phone plan? I haven't worried about pay as you go data with my phone in what feels like a decade or longer now.

Currently on Three's 20 euro a month plan and it's all you can eat data, there's no limit.

Whocare

Listen radio in newtalk most mornings Usually have some things about Climate change very mornings unbelievable how they are doing it

lucalux

I only listen to fm radio in the car, no CD player (it's broken) and no bluetooth/aux/whatever

Even if I did have those tho, I wouldn't always have mobile signal when driving around, so I'd hate not having a fm radio as a standard

mikeecho

I listen to FM every day in the car. When travelling abroad (france) the radio is awful, so i try and get BBC R1 when in the north of France, and after that i switch to TuneIn.

German & Dutch FM is alright.

BlakeS94

I listen to CDs most of the time because of the superior sound quality, but other than that it's radio FM, so yeah I use it most of the time

KaneToad

Long trips I tend to listen to podcasts/music. Short trips it's always the radio.

Long trip = anything over 1 hour.

elperello

I use the radio in the car all the time.

Lyric is a particular favourite, very calming.

I would avoid purchasing a car with no radio.

furiousox

Haven't listened to FM radio for years.

Planet Rock, Spotify, Podcasts in that order.

Creamy Goodness

In my 18 years of driving, I've never listened to the radio. I've always used aux/fm transmitters/bluetooth connected to my phone/iPod.

Why would I listen to Irish radio when I can listen to an infinite amount of audio?

traffic reports - Google Maps/waze has better info (as it uses accelerometer data of people using maps/android phones even if not using maps).

special interest shows - podcasts are there for super niche interests, even if there's something I want to hear from traditional radio, it's often put up in podcast form

music - Spotify / Apple Music has all I need

weather - I look out the window / use an app.

There's nothing else traditional fm radio gives.

Do think cars should have the ability to receive FM but can't deny it's days are numbered.

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/2058359199/do-you-use-the-radio-in-you-car-i-do

I only listen to the music I like, haven't listened to a single radio station in well over a decade or at least not on purpose. I have a family member who is just an absolute nutter for frantically flicking through the various channels while driving and never just settling on one. Drives me up the walls. Can only imagine what they'd be like if they had one of those touch screen centre consoles.

Personally I'd rip the out OEM radio and just replace it with a bog standard Bluetooth speaker system that I can connect my phone to and play spotify. I don't even care for the android or apple car play stuff. My sound system doesn't have to be a "smart" device, it has one job.

Furze99

I wouldn't buy a car without a built in radio. In fact if I had any say in regulations, I'd insist that cars should only have simple devices like radios with on/off switch and decent sized push buttons to change preset stations.

Far, far too much tippy, tappy technology in modern cars - leading to driver distraction.

Creamy Goodness

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122368587#Comment_122368587

is that not conflating two different issues though? Many new cars have buttons on the steering wheel to change stations leading to you not even take your hands off the wheel and eyes of the road. These same controls can be used for audio apps and the likes.

I rarely even look at my main infotainment screen. audio is controlled on the steering wheel, maps are in the instrument cluster.

I dislike touch screens as much as the next person but steering wheel controls and voice has replaced 95% of what I'd use the main screen for.

Calahonda52

My C30 and C45s cassettes still function, I upgraded from the 8 track😎

@Furze99

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122368615#Comment_122368615

The positioning of these features varies depending on manufacturer, model, year, etc but I can see @Furze99 's point. It's easy for those who weren't raised with this tech to be disciplined about it's use on the road but teens just starting out now or even millennials like myself are going to be very easily distracted by them because of how integrated touch screens have become in every day life. My phone goes on silent and airplane mode and gets chucked into the glove box because I just know the second I'm stopped at a light or in slow moving traffic it'll be in my hand and then I'll be the wanker I despise.

CalamariFritti

I can't stand daytime radio. Between the ads the sh1te music and the haha hoho yayyay presenters and the inane crap they're talking about it's simply unbearable. Lyric FM is ok but not always in the mood for that either. BBC Sounds it is.