This is probably a little behind the curve, but I've just discovered Internet radio. (Okay, I've known about it for a while, but I've just started listening to it.) You need something like RealPlayer and a fast connection (I'm on ISDN; DSL or cable modem would be even better)... and then you can listen to radio stations from all around the world. My "presets" include stations from Amsterdam, Belfast, Lebanon (I assume Beirut but they haven't mentioned a city), and Iceland, as well as stations all over the US. Anyone else messed around with Internet radio yet? Found any cool stations? (There are currently around 2500 stations listed at realguide.real.com)40 responses total.
i listen to the nypd "broadcasts" all the time. i've also listened to dj's in different cities that have "morning zoo" formats.
I've been listening to "100 Jamz" in Nassau, Bahamas, from time to time.
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Thanks for the pointer -- if anyone else is going to go check that item out, the Internet radio stuff that's recent enough to be relevant starts at around response #126. But nobody's recommending stations there, so I'd like to keep this discussion going too...
(And 100 Jamz is pretty cool, thanks...)
(( Summer Agora #124 <---> Music #265 ))
I was meaning to start this item myself just so I could jump up and down about http://www.wen.com. Their "radio" section might not count as radio, exactly; they are weekly or monthly programs, assembled and presented by DJs and editors who are fairly well known in the world music field. They're more like "radio on demand" than a live broadcast. I came here looking for the two-hour monthly show by Ian Anderson -- not the guy from Jethro Tull, but a musician in his own right who also edits Britain's FOLK ROOTS magazine. Like the magazine, his show wanders all over the place: the June show starts with Asian Dub Foundation, wanders through Greece for a while, then some blues, then some British traditional folk songs, then there's a sequence of "Punks Playing Folk/Roots Music" which includes tracks from David Johansen, Joe Strummer, and the Mekons. And I haven't gotten through the second hour yet. The other DJ who has really caught my attention is Charlie Gillett. Gillett is renowned for a two-hour show broadcast in London on "Saturday Night," and those shows are stockpiled here. A recent one included David Byrne and Susana Baca in the studio with him. But so far my favorite is Gillett's "World Music Charts Countdown," sort of like the old Casey Kasem show except that most of the music is from Africa. The May show has been one of the great listening experiences of my life, introducing me to Geoffrey Oryema from Uganda (a classic pop singer), Kristi Stassinopoulou from Greece, and Amadou & Miriam from Mali. I've played the may show about five times in the last week.
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oye vey.. I used to listen to E. Lansing Impact radio all the time on Real Audio after I left.. It appears as thought theyre in the middle of noodling around on their website, so I dunno if its currently up, but the address is www.impact89fm.org definitely worth a listen. Another favorite is CFNY in toronto, their address is www.edge102.com For awhile I was listening to stations in northern canada, that was really interesting, you can access those stations through www.cbcnorth.cbc.ca Im also a fan of the netradio reggae station - www.netradio.com among others... :)
I have tried internet radio but my connection isnt fast enough for the most part. I sometimes listen to a talk station in NYC while I am on grex. heh.
I was fully intending to start listening to WCSX via the Net once I stopped being able to listen to it on the radio, but I've now found some Bay Area stations I like better.
You can hear real-time police scanners from NY and LA at http://www.policescanner.com In the morning, I listen to Drew and Mike when I get to my office at http://www.wrif.com. They actually have two online stations...WRIF Live and iRIF.
I listen to RadioSOO (WSOO Sault St. Marie) several times a week - the Tigers broadcast, and I get better, more reliable connections to RadioSOO than I do WJR (probably more people listen online to WJR) "internet radio" should actually refer to radio stations that only broadcast on the internet. "DAER" for example, is the world's largest internet radio company, with internet-only stations in 10 major markets. DAER is owned by a 16 year old. I met him, the kid's a prodigy.
I sometimes listen to France's FunRadio, RFI (Radio France Internationale), or France 4. I tend to avoid FunRadio though because it's almost all English-speaking techno. If I could make a judgment of France only via those radio stations, I'd think the French only listened to dance and techno. I can't really understand spoken French, but it makes me purrr...
Being of Slovak descent, I sometimes listen to Radio Slovakia on the Internet. I haven't re-installed RealPlayer, though, since the 6-month beta trial version I'd installed expired a month or so ago.
By the way, I like Amsterdam Free Radio 100:
http://desk.nl/~radio100/webcast.ram
Re #15: RealPlayer is freeware, at least in its simplest versions.
I'm waiting for the Blitz (99.7 in columbus) to go online. Easily the best radio station I have ever listened to. Probably sucks for a lot of people, but I dig it.
How do you do real audio through a proxy?
You set the proxy preferences in RealPlayer.
I tried that but it never seems to work anyway. I could be doing something wrong?
Probably, but I don't know enough about proxies to be useful here.
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Possibly the administrators of your firewall do not like realaudio. I know I sure don't and discourage it wherever I'm at. Wanna listen, use a radio. It and napster are frequent network pigs.
Yup. Alma Public Schools is going to be getting a faster network connection, because their current one is almost always clogged. The reason is you can't get radio reception inside the building and all the secretaries listen to RealAudio.
I thought y'all might be interested in hearing Austin's best radio station. They put out a decent RealAudio feed, too. http://www.kgsr.com or http://www.broadcast.com/radio/adult_album_alternative/kgsr/ Enjoy it!
I thought you all might be interested in this great new web site: http://www.onlineneighborhoods.com/
I found another canned radio show for the folkies. It's tucked in among all the other stuff at http://www.folking.com and it's a one-hour program selected by singer Dave Burland. About a dozen selections from current UK folk albums, including Little Johnny England, Michael McGoldrick, and Bill Jones. Leslie heard the track from Lester Simpson's new album and she thought it sounded like pre-1985 Oyster Band -- you know, the good stuff they now disown...
Neat! Thanks for the link, Ken. I'll try that out later this afternoon. I thought I'd take this opportunity to plug another local radio station with excellent programming: our local NPR affiliate, KUT. Listen to them LIVE here: http://www.utexas.edu/kut/kutradio.ram Shows that might be of interest are: Eklektikos (Monday -Thursday: 8 a.m. - 2 p.m. and Friday: 8 a.m. - 1 p.m.) A very wide-ranging, eclectic blend of music - everything from classical to country. If it's an excellent representative of its musical genre, it'll fit and be right at home here. *AND* Folkways (Saturday: 9 a.m. - 2 p.m.) From cowboy songs to Celtic reels, blues to bluegrass, Texas performers to international -- all the best in folk and acoustic recordings, plus local news and live performances. Enjoy 'em!
Mickey points out that the show I mentioned is not findable from the folking.com home page. Try http://www.folking.com/radio I need to find out if they have an archive of old shows.
It's well-worth finding, too! I found the entire show quite entertaining, and now I've got *more* music on my wish list, and even some winging its way to Texas as I type. ;-) Thanks, Ken. (thanks a LOT)
I will be helping freind Bill Putt with his internet radio show
this coming Monday night, October 30th. Four hours of Halloween themed
tunes from 8pm until midnight. Some tunes you know, others you will
be delighted to hear.
I don't know the link, and I hope to get back here with one
before Monday night, but you can start with a search for 'warp radio'.
I will be providing some filk, including tunes by Tom Smith,
Robin Nakkula, Michael Longcor, Juanita Colson, and Cynthia McQuillian.
To listen in, paste http://warp-radio.com:8000 into winamp or your other internet radio receiver. Again, the show is 8pm - 12 midnight, Monday October 30, 2000.
In the midst of the South by Southwest Music Festival (SXSW), my favourite radio station is broadcasting live, on-air performances. You, too, can listen to internet streams of these broadcasts here: http://www.broadcast.com/radio/adult_album_alternative/kgsr/ The schedule for the remaining days reads as follows (all times Central, or one hour behind Michigan time): Thursday, March 15 - 2:00 p - Pete Yorn 3:00 p - Kim Richey 3:30 p - Ron Sexsmith 4:00 p - Hammel On Trial 4:30 p - Ray Davies 5:00 p - Lucinda Williams Friday, March 16 - Noon - Los Super Seven (live Lunchtime Performance) 1:00 p - Ryan Adams 2:00 p - Kasey Chambers 2:30 p - Junior Brown 3:00 p - Robert Earl Keen 3:15 p - Shawn Colvin (tentative) 4:00 p - Delbert McClinton 4:30 p - Jorma Kaukonen 5:00 p - John Hammond 5:45 p - Amy Ray 6:15 p - Robyn Hitchcock Saturday, March 17 - Time TBA - Willie Nelson Friday morning should be an interesting time, too. Check out "South by Six A.M." from 6am-9am CST.
i wonder when lucinda is comin back thru s.e. michigan?
I don't know, but I heard her say that after the new album ("Essence") is
released she'll begin touring again in earnest. I think the release date is
June 6th.
yes!
resp:7 :: The April issue of Folk Roots reports that World Entertainment Network (wen.com) has ceased operations. WEN had regular "radio shows" prepared for them by Folk Roots editor Ian A. Anderson and London world music DJ Charlie Gillett; they also had about ten other hosts, and they carried Gillett's main gig, the weekly two-hour show "Saturday Night." WEN lasted less than a year but while they were there they became a major influence on my listening and shopping. WEN had added no new programs after January 1, so the news that they had joined the dot-com casualty lists isn't really a surprise. The old shows still seem to be up for now. Listen or download some of this stuff while it lasts...
(I did some exploring on google. I already knew that WEN had been an operation of a company called NicheMusic.com. I found a press release saying that NicheMusic.com was going to acquired by audiohighway.com in September 2000, and then I found a press release announcing that audiohighway.com had filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy on January 11 2001. Sic transit gloria mundi, or something like that.)
resp:38 :: Looks like www.wen.com has been dismantled. I had hoped to collect a few more shows off of their site, but I waited too long.
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