Soundbox personal radio console

STUDIO --:--
ON DESK · ACTIVE CART

Station

Select a station.

MASTER SIGNAL
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Idle
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IDENTITY

Station

Homepage & automatic filling
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SIGNAL INPUT

Stream

L · INPUT
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R · RETURN
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On Alexa allows playback. Test signal checks the stream.

Broadcast hours

Leave the times empty for a station that runs all day, and turn a day off for one that does not broadcast every day. Times are your own, not the station's. A day says when a run starts, so Friday 20:00 to 02:00 is Friday evening through Saturday morning. Outside these hours no radio mode picks it, and skipping past it in bank order steps over it — asking for it by name still plays it.

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VOICE INPUT

Alexa names

VOICE PREVIEW Alexa, ask Soundbox to play this station
Routines 0 Short phrases that play this station directly, without saying “ask Soundbox”.
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LISTENING MEMORY · READ ONLY

What Soundbox learned

SMART LEARNED PREFERENCE
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This score belongs to the mode above and to no other. Ordered Radio plays the bank in order, so it learns nothing.

Across all profiles: 0 direct station requests.

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Soundbox will explain what it has learned here.

0 profile plays 0 long listens 0 quick skips
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These erase what Soundbox worked out from listening. Nothing you set by hand is touched.

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SET BY YOU

Station controls

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Set by you, and never changed by listening. What Soundbox worked out on its own is in panel 04, and a station's categories describe it rather than control it.

Ordered Radio ignores everything here and plays the bank in order.

Modes it belongs to

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Favorites Radio and Local Radio play only the stations you put in them, so these two are the one place a station has to be added by hand. Listening, categories and learned scores never add or remove one.

FAVORITES RADIOFavorite

Adds it to Favorites Radio. It still plays in every other mode.

LOCAL RADIOLocal

Adds it to Local Radio. It still plays in every other mode.

How often it comes up

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Your own thumb on the scale: how strongly, and where it counts.

It counts in Local and Favorites as well. Ordered Radio plays the bank in order and ignores it.

Saying "play this more" or "play this less" to Alexa moves the same control. It keeps working with learning switched off.

Where it counts

What each one covers
  • Smart: Smart Radio, at any hour.
  • Mornings: Morning Radio at any hour, and Smart Radio from 05:00 until 11:00.
  • Nights: Night Radio at any hour, and Smart Radio from 21:00 until 03:00.
  • Explore: Explore Radio. It has no hours of its own, so unlike Mornings and Nights it never reaches Smart Radio.
  • Ticking more than one does not make it stronger.

Set by hand. What Soundbox learned from listening is in panel 04.