Anybody listen to music/radio programs on-line?
I like Starstreams.
I like Starstreams.
Streaming Radio
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I was thinking of getting a POS old laptop compuer to use as "tuner" when I move in a month or so.
Thanks or posting this idea!
Thanks or posting this idea!
scott55405
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I always use the stream from the website of my favorite LA radio station.
itunes, win-amp, pandora
I like classical music and Country/Western. The classical is no problem in Germany, but I really hate the lectures on the radio stations here...you know the kinds: "Before we play this charming little piece, allow us first to inform you of what the recording engineer's cute little dog did the morning before the recording."
C/W over here is worse than useless- as someone commented in the thread on Mexican radio, there is a strong similarity in the melodies. Which would be ok, if just once someone would dare to be different. The texts are, sadly, stuck in the "mah truck done up and died, she ran away wid my best friend and my dog don't roll over for me no more" stage.
Internet streaming is not all the same, tho'. Magnatunes offers a great collection of classical based on periods. I love 20th century jazz (the real heir to classical music), but the atonal screeching of most of that century is not music, classical or otherwise, however good math it may be.
The 50's and 60's Britrock you get on Winamp is really well done.
Same for C/W on I-Tunes. No surprise there, they have always pushed good country. Gary Allan and Shania Twain are proof that you can be country without the treacherous best friends and broken down trucks.
Pandora is the only one of the "new breed" of music, based on extensive data bases, which really succeeds in surprising me with music I have never heard before on a regular basis. I like their set-up.
What I will not do is pay anyone for streaming radio. That is why I dropped the Windows Media Player model a few years back. Besides, their DRM mentality drives me crazy. Sure, if I really try, I can hear the difference between a 64K and a 192K stream. Who can't? But the compression algorhythms have reached the point where you really can take this stuff seriously.
I like classical music and Country/Western. The classical is no problem in Germany, but I really hate the lectures on the radio stations here...you know the kinds: "Before we play this charming little piece, allow us first to inform you of what the recording engineer's cute little dog did the morning before the recording."
C/W over here is worse than useless- as someone commented in the thread on Mexican radio, there is a strong similarity in the melodies. Which would be ok, if just once someone would dare to be different. The texts are, sadly, stuck in the "mah truck done up and died, she ran away wid my best friend and my dog don't roll over for me no more" stage.
Internet streaming is not all the same, tho'. Magnatunes offers a great collection of classical based on periods. I love 20th century jazz (the real heir to classical music), but the atonal screeching of most of that century is not music, classical or otherwise, however good math it may be.
The 50's and 60's Britrock you get on Winamp is really well done.
Same for C/W on I-Tunes. No surprise there, they have always pushed good country. Gary Allan and Shania Twain are proof that you can be country without the treacherous best friends and broken down trucks.
Pandora is the only one of the "new breed" of music, based on extensive data bases, which really succeeds in surprising me with music I have never heard before on a regular basis. I like their set-up.
What I will not do is pay anyone for streaming radio. That is why I dropped the Windows Media Player model a few years back. Besides, their DRM mentality drives me crazy. Sure, if I really try, I can hear the difference between a 64K and a 192K stream. Who can't? But the compression algorhythms have reached the point where you really can take this stuff seriously.
chad_hauris
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I have put my favorite streaming radio stations on our Links page...You can listen to almost all streams using the Linux operating system and the Mplayer program with no Windows-related problems. There also is a Realplayer for linux.
and for those of us who resent Real's policy
Of requiring you to cough up more information than your first confessor, there are alternatives. Like MediaPlayerClassic.
What is it with Real, anyway?
Junior fascist pervert wannabees...
Not that I feel strongly about them or anything.
Thanks for the Linux tip, Chad. There are some out of the box media systems based on Linux which C't offered a while back.
Work great, even on "vintage" computers. No Windows, no cry.
Here's a link to a spoof of typical "German C/W".
The band backing up the moderator is "Truck Stop" by the by...and they really can play. Just stuck, sadly in the cryin' in your beer era.
Oh, the text is in English and not safe for US offices...some words might offend delicate ears.
(The background to the story is sad/tragic/funny but I've written enough.)
Of requiring you to cough up more information than your first confessor, there are alternatives. Like MediaPlayerClassic.
What is it with Real, anyway?
Junior fascist pervert wannabees...
Not that I feel strongly about them or anything.
Thanks for the Linux tip, Chad. There are some out of the box media systems based on Linux which C't offered a while back.
Work great, even on "vintage" computers. No Windows, no cry.
Here's a link to a spoof of typical "German C/W".
The band backing up the moderator is "Truck Stop" by the by...and they really can play. Just stuck, sadly in the cryin' in your beer era.
Oh, the text is in English and not safe for US offices...some words might offend delicate ears.
(The background to the story is sad/tragic/funny but I've written enough.)
thor
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Majic
I listen to Majic 102.7 from Miami! An oldies radio.
Emilio
I listen to Majic 102.7 from Miami! An oldies radio.
Emilio
Did anybody read about the decision by the Copyright Judges that mandates a new royalty formula that will cause Internet radio to pay much higher fees than broadcast stations? Many stations said it will drive them off the net so I will have to work without WQXR and other favorites again.
