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September 06, 2006

Radio rediscovered

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I've rediscovered Internet radio. At the beginning of the nineties one of the first things I started playing with when Internet began to grow. It wasn't really what it should be by then over a 24k4 modem, but it was fascinating to listen live to a major league baseball game, or to the Australian ABC.

Translation in Dutch at @ DutchCowboys

Sometimes things went well in DOS, Windows 3.11, '95, or one of the different tastes of Linux that I'd sometimes more or less successfully got running, but ever so often it didn't work at all. Listening often meant waiting another minute or two while the box of bolts and nuts had buffered enough bits to produce some more sound, for yet another thirty seconds.

Over the years radio left my digital household. We play with with pics and video, while we had to get used again to the fact that you don't have to think about too many things because on the iMac Mac iPhoto is running. iPhoto is a video and/or photo database/programme that imports, indexes, en everything else that one should want, has been taken care of by Apple. Great application, but we're talking radio over here.

Rediscovered thanks to iTunes. While I started with WinAmp some years ago, iTunes became a logical choice, while still on XP, when I bought my first iPod. iTunes is still running on our iMac now, in which we've imported over 6000 songs now. Most of them ripped from our own old Cd's, or bought through a legal web shop, though maybe not in the eyes of BUMA (the Dutch RIAA) . Until the last word about allofmp3 has been spoken, as long as the website is still in the air, I am customer.

iTunes is almost always in shuffle mode, but, even though it's randomizing 6000 songs, after a while you get the idea you're listening to a tape you've heard before. So, out or boredom, clicked the radio button in iTunes, and browsed some of the available streams.

We're sold. Listening all day to a great American station, called radioio. Go to their website every two hours, click a button over there, and the next two hours you're listening commercial free. Becoming a member is also possible, but wait, there are much more stations.

Long live radio.

Posted by Leon at September 6, 2006 09:24 AM

Comments

Voor goede radio...hoef je niet naar amerika leon....alléén al vanuit oosterhout zijn 2 internet stations beschikbaar die jou zeker zullen bevallen.
no 1 op het gebied van easy listening via podOmatic.com is radio724 vanuit oosterhout.

no 1 op het gebied van Bossanova is BossanovaLounge ook vanuit oosterhout.

bezoek eens de websites:
http://www.radio724.nl of http://www.radio724.com en
http://www.live365.com/stations/deejaynova

Wereldwijd hebben deze 2 stations hun sporen al ruim 3 jaar uitgezet.

Posted by: Frits Steenbakker at September 8, 2006 08:54 AM

Advertenties zijn volgens 70% van de Amerikaanse webradioluisteraars 'een fair price to pay voor het 24/7 gratis kunnen luisteren naar diverse webradio stations'. (Bron: Arbitron & Edison Media Reseach).

Radioio is zeker niet het grootste webradioplatform uit de VS en valt in de categorie 'auto generated playlists'. Ben wel erg benieuwd of ze met deze manier van advertising het wel redden. Tegelijkertijd vraag ik me af het in NL ook zou kunnen.

Overigens is er ook nog wel een onderscheid te maken tussen een audiostream en onlineradio waarbij het distributiekanaal toevallig het internet is. In het laatste geval wordt het door radiomakers gemaakt en in het eerste geval is het vaak de software die bepaald wat de volgorde van de playlist is.

Posted by: Remco at September 8, 2006 08:53 AM

Ik vind iTunes ideaal voor pod- en vodcasts. De radio heb ik nog niet uitgeprobeerd.
Ook leuk zijn Pandora en Last.fm www.pandora.com en www.last.fm internetradio zonder reclame. Je tikt een song of artiest in en beide sites gaan op zoek naar soortgelijke muziek om te beluisteren. Je geeft aan of een nummer bevalt of niet en langzaamaan heb je een station opgebouwd dat zich aan je smaak heeft aangepast. Tegen de tijd dat je genoeg Fleetwood Mac-achtige muziek hebt gehoord, maak je gewoon weer een nieuw station aan.
Maar misschien heb je hier al eens over geschreven. :)

Posted by: Karin at September 8, 2006 08:52 AM

Heel goed! Bedankt voor de tip.

Posted by: El at September 8, 2006 08:51 AM

Leon,

I got hooked on Frequence Jazz.
http://www.frequencejazz.com/
A french radio station, few commercials, news in french on the hour, playing mainstream jazz, soul and blues, new and old, 98% english.
Using iTunes I am listening all day, giving the company a run for their money .
Or better will give them, because german government plans to tax the companies for internet capable computers. Their is a special tax for every household and every company on the use of TV and radio. This TV/radio tax will now be extended to computers. It raises hell with the likes of dentists, who were forced to have internet capable computers to sent their tax forms and bills to health insurance companies in digital format. That's how you grab them by their balls.

Posted by: Joachim at September 6, 2006 02:25 PM

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