It will take advantage of a two convenient facts about FM radio, first that there isn't a square inch of land in the U.S. or Canada, or for that matter much of the world, that isn't within range of an FM radio transmitter.

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Among them is the ability to pick up signals that a traditional FM radio wouldn't otherwise be able to get, meaning that you can hear your favorite station from farther away than before.

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You can't interrupt in FM radio (unintelligible).

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While the iPhone didn't even have a built-in FM radio to replace, Android phones have now started to forgo the radio tuner in the last few years as streaming services (and data reception) have improved.

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Sadly, the "buy from FM" feature quickly reminded us why we can't stand music radio, and while we could easily get the meta data for the station we tuned to, specific (or sufficient) song data was more rare -- on our fourth or fifth try we finally nabbed Rod Stewart's Maggie May, and the actual download process was painless.

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That's pretty huge -- but if that wasn't enough, you're also getting Twitter and Last.fm in the deal.

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When an AM or FM radio station plays a song, the composer gets a royalty payment, but the performer doesn't.

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