A wonderful discovery...
Nov. 18th, 2002 05:48 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
alexpgpI'm probably ten thousand Internet years behind the times, but I stumbled across the live365.com Internet radio site recently, and am wallowing in some pretty neat tunes, of every possible variety. My DSL connection is getting a real workout.
My favorite so far is something called BaroquePlus (with a bunch of "baroque" characters before and after the name). It plays mostly music from the 17th and 18th centuries, and I like it! I've also added a number of other "stations" to my list of presets, ranging from the weird to the contemporary.
There also appears to be a capability offered to broadcast one's own material, which is something I may check out someday, if I can figure out how to take advantage of it. (Language lessons?)
The only down side to the site is that, in free mode, you're subjected to a series of short ads in the sound stream (bearable, and much less of an intrusion than, say, a real radio station), and miserable popup ads (yech! blyeh!). I can live with them for now, though.
Cheers...
My favorite so far is something called BaroquePlus (with a bunch of "baroque" characters before and after the name). It plays mostly music from the 17th and 18th centuries, and I like it! I've also added a number of other "stations" to my list of presets, ranging from the weird to the contemporary.
There also appears to be a capability offered to broadcast one's own material, which is something I may check out someday, if I can figure out how to take advantage of it. (Language lessons?)
The only down side to the site is that, in free mode, you're subjected to a series of short ads in the sound stream (bearable, and much less of an intrusion than, say, a real radio station), and miserable popup ads (yech! blyeh!). I can live with them for now, though.
Cheers...
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Date: 2002-11-18 05:51 pm (UTC)the RIAA has lobbied through a bill that will force internet broadcasters to pay exorbitant back royalties based on what they played and how many listeners they've had. that's my understanding of the situation, although i haven't been able to research it entirely.
internet radio broadcasters are closing up shop all over the internet.
more info can be found at this site:
http://www.ruf.rice.edu/~willr/cb/sos/
i imagine that www.riaa.com would give you the flip side of the argument.
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Date: 2002-11-18 07:47 pm (UTC)