FM radio on your mp3 player

One day I was tired listening local radio and my music collection. I was missing Russian FM station that I listened before. I knew most of them broadcast in Internet and I could grab audio stream and create mp3 file and listen it later when I am driving to work. What I needed to do it is to find or create appropriate tools. I already had server running Slackware Linux 13.0 and I knew it already has many tools. I choose mplayer as recording tool and lame as mp3 encoder.
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“Guitar Hero”

I am not big fun of  “Guitar Hero” game but this news shocked me. Effective 2011 Activision Blizzard Inc. discontinues this game development and disband game’s business unit. Reason of  this decision is “based on the desire to focus on the greatest opportunities that the company currently has to create the world’s best interactive entertainment experiences.” This game was created to warm up teens’ interest to rock music in hip-hop times and now “Guitar Hero” is no more longer exist. Good bye and rest in peace!