Internetworkers: http://www.ibiblio.org/internetworkers/

[Michael Winslow Czeiszperger <michael AT czeiszperger.org>]

At the last Internetworkers meeting Gina was talking about her favorite 
online radio station, and I was thinking other people on the list would 
have good recommendations for music sites.

I'm interested in hearing about other types of music sites in terms of 
getting past the concept of a pre-programmed station. Craig D. and I 
have been talking about the concept of a user-configured radio station, 
where you pick a certain percentage of artists or tracks, and the 
system adds a configurable amount of stuff it thinks you would like, 
augmented by a specific amount of wildcards.  As far as I know there's 
nothing out there like this.

In any event, here's some of the sites I have used that support both 
Linux and Macs:

mp3.com -  They allow you to register CDs that you own, and then listen 
to them anywhere. Its a neat concept, except they only have about 20% 
of my CD collection available. They also have a database of the lesser 
known artists where you can listen to their music and buy CDs. I've 
found a couple of new artists I like, but you have to go into the site 
specifically looking for new artists, since anyone you've heard of 
probably isn't on there.

www.spinner.com - They have a bunch of traditional radio stations, but 
the individual stations are great. My favorite is the "fusion" station. 
They use a RealAudio player, and the audio quality could be better.

www.live365.com - This is an interesting new business model where 
individuals set up their own radio stations. There's a bunch of 
interesting stations on here, but unfortunately most of them are just 
two hour loops.

The rest of the sites are listen to are just the internet versions of 
"real" radio stations for WYSO, WSHA, and WUNC.

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        -- michael at czeiszperger dot org, Chapel Hill, NC