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danr
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Fun with DSL: Radio and TV via the Internet
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Oct 5 17:17 UTC 2000 |
After some trial and tribulation, and pleading with the tech support people to
have a knowledgeable technician have a look at the wires that run to my house,
Ameritech finally seems to have ironed out the problems with my DSL line.
It's really a pretty cool service. I don't wait forever for pages to download,
even ones with tons of graphics.
The coolest thing, though, is the number of radio and TV stations that provide
their broadcasts via the Internet. One of my favorites, for example, is a TV
station from Mexico City. I know just enough Spanish to get the gist of what
they're talking about, and now that I have a good source of Spanish language
media, I'm sure I'll get even better at it.
Of course, there are many radio stations, too, including many that only
broadcast via the Net. Right now, I'm listening to the "Chant" channel of
netradio.com. Imagine "all chant, all the time." The current track is from
"Essential Gregorian Chant" by Pro Cantione Antigua.
Another station I like is XHUG, which is public radio from the University of
Guadalajara in Mexico. Their tagline is "Sonidos Intelligentes," which
translates to "Intelligent Sounds." Depending on when you tune in you can hear
some of the latest popular Latin music, some very interesting jazz, or classic
mariachi music.
Is anyone else surfing the Web for music and video? If so, please share with us
what you've found.
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beeswing
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Oct 5 17:30 UTC 2000 |
Though i can't remember where it is, if you tune into some middle
eastern radio, you can hear the chant of the Koran being read. Very
cool sounding.
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danr
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Oct 5 17:43 UTC 2000 |
If you haven't gotten hooked on this yet, let me help you get started.
If you have the latest Internet Explorer, you probaly already have Windows
Media Player installed, but I think the latest RealPlayer is better. You can
get a free version of the player at http://www.real.com.
As for finding stations, there are several good starting points:
http://www.vtuner.com
http://www.virtualtuner.com (This site has more listings, but
the site is slower to load.)
http://radiofreeworld.com
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jazz
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response 3 of 16:
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Oct 5 18:02 UTC 2000 |
I don't like the amount of marketing info RealPlayer sends to Real when
you use it, so I tend to not have it installed outside of work.
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ric
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response 4 of 16:
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Oct 5 19:16 UTC 2000 |
I use both when required. I don't really care about the marketing because,
for the most part, I'm not looking at it, I'm just listening.
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krj
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response 5 of 16:
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Oct 5 19:54 UTC 2000 |
I think ric misunderstood; jazz is expressing concern about what Real
software sends to Real about you and your machine and your activities,
not what Real is displaying on your screen.
Real's been caught at least once, and maybe twice, sending lots of data
about your PC's listening habits to their corporate HQ.
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scott
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response 6 of 16:
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Oct 5 20:22 UTC 2000 |
What's annoying to me about Real is that their servers seem to reject
connections from non-recent players. And of course you can't get the latest
for Linux...
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jep
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Oct 5 21:04 UTC 2000 |
I searched and searched for a RealAudio-accessible radio station that
does marching music, but couldn't find anything. Yet there's a chant
station. Hmmph!
I use RealJukebox to copy music CDs to my hard drive at work and then
listen to them. It works great.
Over the summer, I listened to several baseball games over RealAudio.
This works great, too, from work where we have a couple of T1 lines.
From home, via a 56K modem connection to the local ISP, it doesn't work
all that well.
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danr
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Oct 5 23:52 UTC 2000 |
Last year, during the college basketball season, I listened to several of the
U-M women's home games over a dial-up connection, and it worked pretty well for
me. Right now, I'm listening to a Mets-Giants pre-game show on WFAN from New
York.
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danr
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response 9 of 16:
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Oct 5 23:53 UTC 2000 |
ooops. That should have read "away games" above.
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ric
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response 10 of 16:
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Oct 6 01:04 UTC 2000 |
re 5 - probably right ken.. personally, I don't care much about that, either
:)
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krj
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response 11 of 16:
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Oct 6 03:56 UTC 2000 |
At the risk of being boring, I'll repeat my enthusiastic recommendation
for the canned "world music" radio shows at http://www.wen.com/radio
These are one or two hour blocks of programming which are assembled
and presented by various musical pundits. The stars for me have been
the shows by Charlie Gillett and Ian (Not Jethro Tull) Anderson.
There's a library of the old shows at the website.
Charlie Gillett has two shows on wen.com. "World Music Charts Europe"
is a monthly countdown show of really pop-sounding world music, mostly
from Africa with side trips to Latin American and Europe,
and the May 2000 show was one of the finest collections of songs
I've heard in years. "Saturday Night" is the two-hour weekly show
which is aired over "traditional" radio in London, and wen.com gets the
tapes when they are about a month old.
Ian Anderson's show is based on his magazine "Folk Roots," so it mixes
up third world music with traditional folk from the British Isles, and
some traditional American forms. His June 2000 show was my favorite to
date.
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twinkie
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response 12 of 16:
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Oct 6 04:29 UTC 2000 |
re: 0 -- I don't know what OS you're running, but I've found Spinner Plus
(http://www.spinner.com) to be a REALLY cool streaming music service. They
have easily 100 "stations" in every genre imaginable.
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senna
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response 13 of 16:
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Oct 6 05:58 UTC 2000 |
I've found a suprisingly elaborate helping of football broadcasts (college,
pro, and european) on the web, mostly through yahoo.
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tod
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response 14 of 16:
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Oct 6 16:43 UTC 2000 |
http://bestialrecords.virtualave.net/
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gull
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response 15 of 16:
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Oct 8 20:36 UTC 2000 |
RealPlayer G2 *is* available for Linux, and works pretty well.
If you don't like RealPlayer, check out ShoutCast. It's just MP3 streamed
via HTTP so a lot of players can handle it, including WinAmp and XMMS.
www.shoutcast.com is a good starting point.
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danr
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response 16 of 16:
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Oct 9 03:24 UTC 2000 |
Right now, I'm listening to KING, a classical music station in Seattle. I was
listening to Beethoven.com, an Internet-only classical station, but they went
off the air (off the Net?) suddenly just a while ago.
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