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Old Time Radio Shows: http://www.radiolovers.com/
This site is all about old radio shows. You can
listen to great comedy teams like Abbott and Costello or listen
to a mystery solved by Ellery Queen. Some shows have multiple episodes.
All shows are free.
Radios in the Classroom: Curriculum Integration and Communication
Skills:
http://www.ericit.org/digests/EDO-IR-1999-03.shtml
Radio on the Internet: http://www.freepint.com/issues/170403.htm#tips
Live 365: http://www.live365.com/
Ever dreamed of hosting your own radio show? Not
only is Live 365 is a directory of thousands of Internet-only radio stations,
it also includes tools for and tutorials on producing your own streaming
radio station. Other excellent tutorials found in the Help section include
an introduction to streaming players ("How to Listen") and a
streaming audio glossary ("Bitrate: For audio broadcasts, a higher
bitrate typically means better audio quality.")
Radio-Locator: http://www.radio-locator.com/
Radio-Locator is the place to find radio stations
you listen to in the car, or to search for international stations. It
is a comprehensive database of 10,000 radio stations, a quarter of which
offer Internet audio streams. You can search by call letters, zip code,
city, format (such as jazz or K-12) or country. Internet-only stations
are not included in the Radio-Locator directory.
Radio@Netscape (formerly Spinner): http://radio.netscape.com
America Online's Spinner has merged with Netscape
Music to form Radio@ Netscape. They produce 175 free Internet-only music
channels that stream 90 million songs per month. You can listen with any
RealPlayer software, but if you download the Radio@Netscape Plus, you
can rate songs, influence song play, and save favorite channels.
TechTV: Confusing Media Players: http://www.techtv.com/callforhelp/stepone/story/0,24330,3399921,00.html
The very first step toward enjoying online radio
is installing a few audio players. This short article from Tech TV's Call
for Help gives you links for downloading three players: Apple's QuickTime,
Microsoft's Windows Media, and Real's RealOne (formerly known as RealPlayer.)
The article also provides download links for three useful (but optional)
players to consider.
Yahoo! LAUNCHcast: http://launch.yahoo.com/launchcast/
Yahoo!'s LAUNCHcast not only hosts three dozen
pre-programmed radio stations, but also lets you create a custom radio
station with songs and genres you select and rate. Because of licensing
considerations, you can't completely control how often individual songs
are played , but your ratings do contribute to the overall mix of songs.
To create your station, login using your existing Yahoo! username (or
register a new one), and follow the on-screen instructions titled "Make
Your Own Radio Station."
Useful Tools, from javelier7: http://hometown.aol.com/javelier7/tools.html
Get all the tools to start listening to music on the Internet with this
handy primer.
Streaming technologies have
transformed online audio since the days when you had to wait patiently
while downloading a few-seconds-long WAV file. today, a wide selection
of live radio stations in is available. These range from the station
that your neighbor is running from her living room to commercial radio
stations. And with ever-improving technologies, streming audio now
offers better sound quality and more accessibility. With a few clicks,
you can catch the latest British football scores, hear the Montreux Jazz
Festival, or start your own radio station without ever leaving the warm
glow of monitor.
Travel the World
Thousands ofWeb sites have
popped up that are broadcasting streaming music over the Web. but
finding a station that fits our tastes can be hit or miss. Internet
radio stations boast some real advantages over traditional radio, such
as commercial-free and DJ-free music. Check out ChannelSeek:
http://channelseek.com and Yahoo!Broadcast:
www.broadcast.com, two multimedia
hubs that high-light online-accessible events and direct you to an array
of sites and stations.
Of course, traditional radio stations aren't missing out on theis wave.
Stations around the world are expanding their audiences by streaming
their broadcast signals over the Internet. If you can't bear another
day of listening to the local morning show, vTuner: www.vtuner.com
is the site for you. this data base of online-enabled radio stations
lets you search by genre or geographical location. vTuner also rates
the quiality of each station and provides direct links. Similarly,
Live Radio: www:live-radio.net offers an extensive list, organized by
region, of radio stations tat broadcast online. Man of these stations,
however, only support the RealPlayer fromat. If you're using the
Windws Media Player, you can visit WindowsMedia.com: www.windowsmedia.com
for a listing of available stations.
Hear The News
Like traditional radio, Internet radio spans moremore tahn musical genres.
In fact, using the Internet to broadcast news makes it easy to access
live or on demand news reports from around the world. National Public
Radio www.npr.org, for instance, posts
hourly news reports that you can access at your convenience. Internet
newscasts also offer a global perspective that local radio stations can't.
Recognizing this, NPR launced tha World Radio Network:www.wrn.org
to deliver live news from around the world 24 hours a day.
If you're more interested in keeping up with United States news and politics,
CNN Audioselect: www.cnn.com/audioselect
offers a variety of live news feed, including Headline News, CNN International,
and CNN en Espanol. Similarly, C-Span: www.c-span.org
broadcasts many of its segments, as well as C-SPAN Radio 90, via the Internet.
Be The DJ
Starting your own staion
is a lot easier -- and cheaper -- than ou might expect. For delivering
live broadcast in RealMedia format, Real Networks offer the Basic Server
G2: www.real.com/products/servers/basic.html,
which supports as many as 25 simultaneous listeners, for free. Once
you gain some popularity, howevder, you have to step up to one of the
commercially available packages to accommadate more users. To produce
on-demand content, RealProducer G2: www.real.com/products/tools/producer/index.html
is also a free download.
Shoutcast: www.shoutcast.com, another
free product, integrates with Winamp to turn your computer into an Internet
broadcast system. While running server software, you can play MP3
files with Winamp. Other Winamp users on the Internet can then turn
in and listen to whatever you're playing. The Shoutcast site acts
as a portal, providing links to all of the servers tat are currently running
and listing statistics, such as how many listeners each server has. If
you'd like to dabble in Internet radio but don't want to deal with installing
software, setting up a server, or spinning CDs, then check out Imagine
Radio: www.imaginradio.com.
This cookie-cutter solution lets you choose specific genres and how often
songs from each are played. Imagine Radio's box handles the rest.
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