[Swprograms] Somewhat OT: Fwd: [uk-radio-listeners] Internet radio stations

["Richard Cuff" <rdcuff@xxxxxxxxx>]

>From a UK listeners' list I frequent...

These aren't so much "radio stations" but music discovery services  I
am personally fond of Pandora.

Some of these are built into wifi "Internet Radios" as well.

If Santa gave you a $120 - $130 windfall, you might want to lock at
the RCA (Audiovox?) "Infinite Radio" -- see
https://www.rcainfiniteradio.com/.

Buy.com lists it for $102 but it is currently sold out.

It appears to handle Real Audio formatted stations and also has an
onboard FM tuner.

Richard Cuff / Allentown, PA  USA

---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: Mike Terry <miketerry73@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Sat, Dec 27, 2008 at 2:38 AM
Subject: [uk-radio-listeners] Internet radio stations
To: uk radio listeners <uk-radio-listeners@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>


Advice from The Saga Newsletter:

When most people think about digital music, they think of Apple's iTunes and
the 79p per track download service. But there's another way to find and
enjoy music on your PC, and it doesn't cost a penny, writes Rob Beattie

The internet is redefining what we think of as radio. Certainly, you can go
to www.bbc.co.uk and listen to whatever Radio 2, Radio 3 or 6 Music is
knocking out at the time, or use the 'Listen Again' service to catch a show
that you've missed.

But the real fun is happening elsewhere, with websites that allow you to
listen to the music you like when it suits you, rather than when it's
scheduled by the broadcaster.

Not only that, but they'll recommend other, similar artists they think you
might like, so you get to listen to new stuff along with your old
favourites.

Try it. Load your web browser and then click in the address line (where all
the 'http' stuff is) type in www.last.fm and press 'Return'.

When the site loads, type in the name of someone you like and after a
moment, the site will start playing one of their songs (or if they're a
little obscure, something from a similar artist).
>From the player window you can skip tracks you don't like, pause the current
song, or jump directly to another artist you like the sound of.

The performance 'hit' of listening to internet music like this is minimal,
which means you can check emails, write letters and so on, while the music
plays in the background.

There are plenty of sites like this, including www.finetune.com which lets
you download its music player to the desktop and www.soundpedia.com which
lets you listen to entire albums, instead of cherry-picking individual
tracks.

(By the way, www.pandora.com is still the most interesting music site on the
net, but until they open it up to UK registrations we won't recommend it.)

Alternatively, try something completely different and visit
www.musicovery.com. When the site loads, use the little mood-o-meter to
define whether you're feeling energetic, calm, positive or dark, then pick a
genre (or genres) of music and a decade.

After a moment, Musicovery will display a psychedelic musical map of songs
based on your choices, and you can either let the site navigate the map
track by track, or jump around
wherever you like by pointing and clicking with the cursor. As you do,
Musicovery suggests new connections all the time.

All you need to enjoy a world of music for free is a broadband connection
and a reasonably modern PC which should have all the necessary sound gubbins
built in.

If it doesn't, then something like the Sound Blaster Audigy SE for around
£30.00 will do the trick.

Hook it up to the hi-fi or a pair of powered stereo computer speakers which
will set you back £20.00 or more; Apple Mac and laptop owners have
everything they need already.


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-- 
Richard Cuff / Allentown, PA  USA

International broadcasting / shortwave blog:
http://www.intlradio.blogspot.com

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