I had it for awhile when I lived in Raleigh, NC. No you couldn't get
stations from all over the world ... it was all stations set up for
commercial free dispensation of music. It sucked. Distribution was
required. It was all departmentalized, and you found groove music at 1 or
2 am on the rap station. No announcers. If you wanted to know what you
were listening to you pushed a button on your remote and the readout came
through. It took about a minute to download once the song started, so if
you forgot that you wanted to find out what that song was there was no way
of getting the title back. It also told you what album it came from and
strangely enough everything was listed in Phonolog, so that meant only the
bigger indies with great distribution.
It was okay in that I heard a lot of stuff I wouldn't hear on mersh radio,
but the jazz station played safe (no Zorn, no free stuff). I didn't really
like it all that much.
Basically it was a commercial-free muzak system despensed for you like
Columbia House or BMG. If you look REALLY HARD you might find something
you like .... but most of the wading through the shit to me wasn't worth it
.... I'd rather buy compilations so if I don't like a tune I just launch it
and go to the next one .....