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Internet Radio Stations Portal : Choose your pick
Music is one of the areas where the web has thrown up tremendous opportunities. Among them, one is internet radio. Don’t have songs on your disk or the local fm station not playing good enough songs, switch to online intern radio stations. Do not want to stick to 1 station, use the internet radio station portals.
These internet radio portals usually have thousands of radio stations listed which are categorised and grouped on various parameters. So you have radio station listing based on different music categories, sports, news, regions etc. Most of these portals support popular players such as winamp, media player, vlc player etc to play the music files. Along with that they also have their own player which negates any requirement of dektop player. Although there are softwares which serve the same purpose as the internet radio portals but I prefer to use the portals. Here is a small list of such portals which you could use to listen :
SHOUTcast :
It is one of the most popular portals for internet radio stations. With more than 40,000 stations to pick from, the site boasts of wide variety of stations. The different genres suit people with different music choices. Along with support to different 3rd party players, the in built player which can be loaded as a bottom bar in the browser window or a pop up window is also quite useful. The website also provides a useful -phone app but an android app is still in the making.
Pandora is another popular portal where you can search by artist name or song name. It uses the Music Genome Project andhas collection of some of the oldest and rarest songs too. You can even create your station upto 100 in number on the site. It is available only in Us region for now.
slacker is also another popular online radio station portal. It has a huge variety of genres to listen from. It has been widely appreciated by the users and is countries like US, it used by many daily. It is possible to select artists and create your own stations. It is not available in all the regions.
Spiiner is another extremely popular portal. It is a mix of music portal and an online radio station portal. It has stored music from numerous different artists and you can easily listen to ones of your choice. It has free p3 downloadables. It also has latest releases to listen to. It has somewhat of a limited radio functionality as the number of radio stations are not huge. IT hosts around 350-400 radio stations which as compared to Shoutcast is extremely low. Nonethless a good site to browse through and listen to music.
It is a hugely popular music portal cum social interaction cum online radio portal. Yu can search for your music by typing in the artist name and listen to your favourite music. It also gives you some free music downloads. It also hosts number of radio stations to pick from. Apart from the traditional music and radio website, it is also popular for social interaction. If you use media player or itunes, it syncs your playlist through the cloud and you can listen to it from anywhere. Also it matches your music preferences with other people and lets you connect with them.
It is dedicated internet radio portal boasting of more than 6000 radio stations which are run by real people rather than computers. It has some really popular stations going and gives you a lot to choose from. You can also float your own radio station.
Deezer is a popular french platform. Although it has music in English as well but it is hugely popular for it collection of french music. It has various precustomised radio stations to listen to. Also along with that it has playlists defined and you can create you own playlist based on your preferences.
This is quite good portal for radio stations as it not only provides you with radio stations with music but also radio stations with talk. You can browse by location, by music, by all talk, sports etc. Within each category you can further specify your search. It offers a directory of 10000 worldwide FM radio stations to choose from. a great feature ad unique factor of the site is that it lets you search for you local FM station (usually most of local FM stations stream online) It is otherwise not easy to have a range of local FM stations at one place.
Music Platforms but not Radio Portals
It is not a radio portal but a good place to listen to your favourite music. You can create different playlists for different occasions or different moods. You can further share these playlists on your social network using facebook, twitter etc. You can also listen to predesigned playlists. You can also listen to playlists of other people. The site has had tough times with record labels but it has come through for good and is a nice platform to create ready playlists for you to listen
Finetune is also another portal which is different in itself. Here you type an artist’s name and they create a playlist of related songs for you to listen to. You can also explore the Finetune community- browse artists, users, playlists and more. It also allows you to listen to professionally managed playlists spanning todays most popular terrestrial radio formats
Streampad is an internet audio player than can be used to listen to music from anywhere where you can access the internet. Users can listen to music from their own computer remotely through a web browser, listen to concerts from an archive, create playlists, listen to music from the internet and see what friends using Streampad are listening to.
Launched as a podcast directory, ODeo has evolved to include further features. Odeo now features millions of syndicated audio and video episodes aggregated from over 500,000 channels. It allows users to create profile pages, subscribe to preferred channels, and create playlists.
It has thousands of songs to listen to. It is quite popular among users for its collection of songs, ability to create playlists, sharing of tunes on the web. You can pick one song to listen to and at the same time que in more song to listen further. It has quickly become one of the most visited music portals and hosts a tremendous collection of music.
I might have missed out a few, but definitely there are some more. It seems to be a growing industry and definitely we will see more features and better functionality from the sites in the coming future.
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I am currently pursuing MBA from MDI, Gurgaon, India and currently studying at ESCP-Europe,Paris. Apart from keeping myself updated with latest in the tech world , I also like to write. Hope you find my writings useful.
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