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Internet radio revisited

webmutant — Wed, 12 Feb 2003 12:54:57 -0800

"There was one streaming radio site that I loved, but it's fallen on hard times." Back in June 2001, MeFi members discussed their favorite on-line radio broadcasts. Since then, the CARP ruling meant hard times for a lot of Internet broadcasts. Out of all the stations listed in the original thread, which ones have survived? Find out inside.

By: webmutant

webmutant — Wed, 12 Feb 2003 12:56:53 -0800

Alive and kicking:

3WK Underground Radio
BBC Radio 1
Beta Lounge
ChannelZ (only works if you're in New Zealand)
CNet Radio (requires registration now)
Digital Bombing
dublab
erika.net
flaresound
Factory 188
GidaFolk
Grassy Hill Radio
Groovetech
Heavy.com (warning, full-screen pop-up interface)
indiepopradio.com
JazzRadio.net
KALX
KCRW
KEXP
KFJC
KFOG
KillRadio.org
KTXT
KZSU
LAUNCHcast (now part of Yahoo)
The Massinova Project
Opera Smackdown (Live365 Preferred Members only)
Radio Margaritaville
Radio Paradise
Sleepbot Environmental Broadcast
Soma FM (they're back!)
Spinner (now merged with Netscape Music)
spacelab transmissions
Sputnik7
StaticBeats
tobyslater
WFMU
WLUW
WMSE
WNUR
WNYC
WNYU
WOXY
WPRB
WWOZ
xfm.co.uk

Among the Dead:

atrecordings.com
BlueMars
Chillambience
echo
Fat Free Radio
The Farm Report
Fresh Air (site is up, but link to stream is 404)
Jpopstop
l'audible
laudanum (at least, I can't find a link to their stream, if it's still up)
Monkey Radio
all-Moxy Fruvous channel
musicforhackers.com ("mfh streams are temporarily down | looking for bandwidth donations")
Neurofunk
ORANG (hacked!)
Phishcast (site is still there, but stream doesn't seem to work)
Radio Mafia
Rare Music
Sonicnet
spotted.radio
TagsTranceTrip

By: webmutant

webmutant — Wed, 12 Feb 2003 12:58:23 -0800

So, the first post in the original thread ended with a question: "What streams do you listen to during your long work days?" What new stations have you discovered since then?

By: Stan Chin

Stan Chin — Wed, 12 Feb 2003 13:00:44 -0800

I'm still listen to Secret Agent Man Radio once a week.

By: mookieproof

mookieproof — Wed, 12 Feb 2003 13:05:36 -0800

WXDU Durham, NC WXYC Chapel Hill, NC CKUT Montréal, PQ Radio K Twin Cities, MN

By: freebird

freebird — Wed, 12 Feb 2003 13:06:31 -0800

I think monkeyradio is back..perhaps you need an 'undead' category...

By: PinkStainlessTail

PinkStainlessTail — Wed, 12 Feb 2003 13:08:42 -0800

I always forget to listen to Dr. Cosmo on WPRB's stream, but I heartily recommend him, and a lot of their other programming. Does anyone know of a good Japanese pop/rock stream? Like actually from Japan? I keep finding dead ones, or short recorded programs, not terribly satisfying...

By: zane9

zane9 — Wed, 12 Feb 2003 13:10:42 -0800

I'm listening to streams from radioio.com. Struggling financially, but a growing listener base, according to the "radioioguy" Mike.

By: BentPenguin

BentPenguin — Wed, 12 Feb 2003 13:12:14 -0800

www.paradiseradio.com

By: notsnot

notsnot — Wed, 12 Feb 2003 13:14:29 -0800

I'll second KEXP and WXDU...of course, I have friends that do shows on those stations. KDHX is also great.

By: BrodieShadeTree

BrodieShadeTree — Wed, 12 Feb 2003 13:17:14 -0800

RadioParadise is great consistently. Except when they play David Byrne. I can't stomach him. They kinda do this thing on RadioParadise where its a stream of consciousness relating each song progressively, but with music or sumthin'. RadioNova is good too for ambient techno-beat-whatever.

By: some chick

some chick — Wed, 12 Feb 2003 13:19:52 -0800

Monkey Radio is back indeed, and he's doing an interesting survey of his listeners. He wants everyone to send in a list of all the albums they bought because of his radio station - tracks you liked, artists you'd never heard of, etc. He's trying to prove to the RIAA that net radio stations actually cause people to (gasp) go out and buy music! Also apparently all the tracks he plays are from CDs he owns, which is pretty uncommon, I'd imagine.

By: briank

briank — Wed, 12 Feb 2003 13:21:29 -0800

For those of you who like typical NPR programming, both WBUR and WGBH in Boston still have live streams.

By: webmutant

webmutant — Wed, 12 Feb 2003 13:23:55 -0800

Oh, excellent! I didn't know Monkey Radio had moved to a .org site -- I just checked the old .net link and it wasn't there. Glad to know they're still around.

By: oog

oog — Wed, 12 Feb 2003 13:27:47 -0800

well, congrats to both the wxdu (duke univ.) and wxyc (n. carolina) for surviving, but my radio show can no longer be heard online. its depressing, as half my listeners were my around-the-country friends that i met via the internet, travels, and moves. oh well. you can at least look at my playlists and salivate over what might have been.

By: machaus

machaus — Wed, 12 Feb 2003 13:29:38 -0800

Monkeyradio is fantastic. Except in the morning. NEVER EVER LISTEN TO MONKEY RADIO IN THE A.M. You have been warned.

By: specialk420

specialk420 — Wed, 12 Feb 2003 13:31:48 -0800

www.shoutcast.com has so much good stuff www.kxlu.com rocks http://www.kexp.org/ grungy seattle love http://www.kcrw.com/ is tops and you can always find nice entertainment at: www.tal.org

By: Mwongozi

Mwongozi — Wed, 12 Feb 2003 13:33:52 -0800

Don't forget that the BBC stream all their radio stations, not just Radio 1. Also, I love a bit of Digitally Imported.

By: specialk420

specialk420 — Wed, 12 Feb 2003 13:35:04 -0800

headspace - Tuesdays, 10pm-11pm, PST, KXLU 88.9 FM . highly recommended... lots of delicious sounds like: www.twilightcircus.com

By: psycht

psycht — Wed, 12 Feb 2003 13:37:24 -0800

ioMedia's Radioio is among the struggling commercial free streams.

By: dg

dg — Wed, 12 Feb 2003 13:40:53 -0800

www.moontaxi.com is what I listen to when I can get time to relax, but I will certainly be checking out some of those listed above to see if they have streams that will fit down a dial-up connection.

By: eyeballkid

eyeballkid — Wed, 12 Feb 2003 13:48:41 -0800

[this is good] Thanks webmutant.

By: jeremias

jeremias — Wed, 12 Feb 2003 13:55:07 -0800

SweetJesus pointed to a link to Sirius Radio in yesterday's turntable thread.These are one of the companies who make satellite radio. I was surprised how good the music was, you can only listen for 20 minutes though, and it only seems to work on IE (on a Mac - dunno bout PC)

By: George_Spiggott

George_Spiggott — Wed, 12 Feb 2003 13:55:58 -0800

Any decent web programmer looking for a purpose in life could create a really useful internet radio stream directory - all it would need to do is present check boxes for music format, commercial or not, and stream type (mp3, windows media, ogg, real); click submit and it returns a list of urls matching your criteria. A little judicious use of cookies and your selections would be remembered every time you visited. Or has someone done that already? It's actually sort of difficult to find internet radio stations you like, and once you do they nearly always require windows media player or real, both of which are hellspawn.

By: mokey

mokey — Wed, 12 Feb 2003 14:09:00 -0800

yeah, back in the day when live365.com was free i uploaded loads of songs from my cd collection and that was my radio station... it was cool. then they started charging for new signups though existing users didn't have to pay, then they started charging to be listed in the directory, then after this copyright thing there was a $5 dollar monthly charge for everyone. I'm not complaining, I mean I know they are trying to make money so that's cool. But it was nice to have my own personal radio station for a while...

By: synapse

synapse — Wed, 12 Feb 2003 14:12:39 -0800

WBER is not bad. It does vary a bit since some programming comes from high schools but I've discovered some wonderful stuff there. First place I heard KMFDM on the radio as a teen (it's a local station in Rochester NY.)

By: Mo Nickels

Mo Nickels — Wed, 12 Feb 2003 14:41:29 -0800

Now this is a radio station which has fallen upon hard times.

By: cmicali

cmicali — Wed, 12 Feb 2003 14:46:02 -0800

I'm starting to think that not one person on metafilter listens to house music. Proton Radio

By: mookieproof

mookieproof — Wed, 12 Feb 2003 15:29:24 -0800

...windows media player or real, both of which are hellspawn. Absolutely agreed. (Plus for some reason I can only receive streaming mp3 through my firewall at work.) God bless Shoutcast. Does anyone know the pros and cons of the different streaming methods for the streamer? Unfortunately, only a precious few like KEXP and WFMU seem to be able to afford multiple streams...

By: sahrens428

sahrens428 — Wed, 12 Feb 2003 15:42:18 -0800

WSO U U U

By: kirkaracha

kirkaracha — Wed, 12 Feb 2003 16:04:24 -0800

I bouce back and forth between Radio Paradise and RadioIO. I used to love them, but that's dimished due to some minor annoyances. Radio Paradise plays too much reggae for me, and they both do the clever gimmick where they'll play, say, a Beatles song, and back it up with a Beatles cover. It's fun once in a blue moon, but they do it a couple of times a week. They both also stick to the same playlists, so they're ruts, just alternative ruts. RadioIO plays Elvis Costello's "Spooky Girlfriend" about 100 times a week, and not any of his other cool lesser-known songs. Jeez, maybe the annoyances are not so minor. I still like both stations, and I've picked up on some cool music from both of them.

By: sophist

sophist — Wed, 12 Feb 2003 16:33:28 -0800

i would highly reccomend winamp, if you are still using windows media player or real, built in shoutcast browsing, (which is what you were looking for George_Spiggott) a low profile runtime, and more skins, plug-ins and extras than you can shake a stick at.

By: luckyclone

luckyclone — Wed, 12 Feb 2003 17:23:37 -0800

basement audio.

By: iconomy

iconomy — Wed, 12 Feb 2003 19:34:17 -0800

This thread is a keeper. Thanks.

By: Salmonberry

Salmonberry — Wed, 12 Feb 2003 19:40:02 -0800

I am totally bookmarking this thread for future reference. Thanks! Preview: what iconomy said.

By: lisa g

lisa g — Wed, 12 Feb 2003 19:46:14 -0800

I'll guess that most people here know the great multi-genre indie freeform station WFMU, but its website has added some cool features lately. Most DJs' shows for the past few years are archived online -- literally thousands of hours of shows -- and you can search their playlists for specific artists or songs. So you might discover a show from July 2002 that played your favorite obscure band, and you can listen to the whole shift and hear what else that same DJ played. (And then listen to other shifts by that DJ, get some new favorite bands, find other DJs who also played your new favorite band, etc.) Hours of multiple-forking-paths fun.

By: Zurishaddai

Zurishaddai — Wed, 12 Feb 2003 19:52:26 -0800

For good so-called roots & alt-country music, you can't listen to Sisyphus Tracks for free anymore (tho' it still exists), so your best bet is WNCW, one of the coolest (non-classical) music-centered NPR stations anywhere. In this genre, sometimes TwangCast is good (and it's free).

By: lisa g

lisa g — Wed, 12 Feb 2003 20:01:51 -0800

(Incidentally, WFMU is totally supported by listener donations and semi-annual record fairs. Its DJs are volunteers, and it doesn't get any cash from advertisers, the government, or a university. Considering that it's both a terrestrial radio station and a high-traffic website, its bills are high. If you like it, making a donation during its annual early-spring marathon is a good thing.)

By: betobeto

betobeto — Wed, 12 Feb 2003 22:01:12 -0800

Si vous goutez du francais and are not afraid of French house and techno, Radio FG - a techno radio station from France broadcasting in both FM and the web, makes up for an interesting listen.

By: misterioso

misterioso — Fri, 14 Feb 2003 12:12:10 -0800

My radio station, rip-off radio, is still on the air, and has been off and on for around 6 years.

By: deathofme

deathofme — Fri, 14 Feb 2003 20:19:23 -0800

There's a fun eclectic electro net radio station called In Perpetual Motion. They've been doing it for years, and even though they focus on darker, gothy, very Germanish types of music, the atmosphere is quite... errm... light hearted and goofy. Good stuff all around. There are archived shows dating back 2 years and they broadcast live every Friday (well, somtimes Saturday) night.

By: specialk420

specialk420 — Tue, 18 Feb 2003 22:11:35 -0800

for those of you recent post watchers.... headspace on KXLU .... is such a good way to spend an hour on tuesday nights http://www.live365.com/stations/kxlu1?site=kxlu1