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Stream
Fishing: A Guide to Net Radio
April 18, 2002
By CATHERINE GREENMAN
IF you spend most of your time navigating amon hyperactive advertisers or mindless
talk-show hosts when you turn on your radio, you will find the variety, and
in many cases, the ad-free calm, of Internet radio stations to be a welcome
change. Traditional broadcast stations delivered via the Web and sites that
offer their own - or your own - playlists.
But whether you are tuned into a live local radio station thousands of miles
away or a subscription-based service that lets you play your own favorites,
Internet radio stations work by compressing and transmitting audio files to
your computer in a process called streaming. Streaming is different from regular
downloading in that you can listen to the file as it is being delivered to your
computer instead of having to wait until the whole file has been received. To
hear streaming audio files, you will need a PC with a sound card, speakers and
an audio player like Windows Media Player or RealPlayer. If your PC does not
already have an audio player installed, you can one free at many radio sites
or at
www.microsoft.com/downloads or www.real.com.
Many conventional broadcast stations simultaneously transmit their programming
on their own Web sites. Among the most popular, said MeasureCast, a company
that measures streaming audiences on the Web, are Jazz fm (www.jazzfm.com),
a London station; two classical stations, WQXR-FM (www.wqxr.com) in New York
and KING-FM (www.king.org) in Seattle; and KKDA-FM (www.k104fm.com), an urban
adult contemporary station in Dallas.
But there are plenty of Internet-only radio stations with Web sites as well,
including Beethoven.com, a classical station; KNAC.COM, which plays rock; and
BlueGrass Country (www.bluegrasscountry.org).
Many other sites function as station directories, including Shoutcast (shoutcast.com),
Live365 (live365.com), Live-radio.net and RadioTower.com. These sites you to
broadcast and Web-only stations, including live and recorded broadcasts, from
around the globe. Major portals like Yahoo and MSN have radio links too.
The station links are not always updated, and a station may not always be on
the air when you click on it. But the ability to link to a radio-for-peace station
in Costa Rica or an Amsterdam station that is tuned into a police scanner will
remind you of the mind expanding possibilities of the Web.
For those interested in a specific type of music, sites like Spinner (spinner.com),
Musicmatch (www.musicmatch.com), Echo (www.echo.com) and PenguinRadio (www.penguinradio.com)
offer their own "stations" in genres like classic rock, pop, hip-hop,
classical and blues. Spinner and Musicmatch require that their own players be
downloaded; Echo and PenguinRadio immediately start up RealPlayer.
For many listeners, hearing a steady stream of their favorite type of music
playing in the background on their computer is all they want or need from Internet
radio. But for those who want to have more control over what they listen to,
a new crop of subscription services, including Musicmatch's RadioMX, MusicNet
and Pressplay, offer a range of ways to design customized radio stations.
For $39.95 a year, RadioMX lets you create stations based on as many as 25 of
your favorite artists. RadioMX will then stream songs from those artists and
others it thinks you will like based on your choices. (Musicmatch also offers
free streaming music, without customization, in many genres.) The site provides
reviews of albums of songs you are listening to as well as links to Amazon.com,
where you can buy the CD's. Although Musicmatch has acquired the rights to some
100,000 songs from various record companies, all Internet radio
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