Written by Pavan Kumar on September 10, 2008
There are many ways for online entertainment. There have been many discussions related with streaming internet music or streaming video all over the blogosphere these days. Every such discussion included either sites which serve internet radio or some softwares which you need to listen to music. Here I am going to share with you the technique I use regularly to listen to free music online.
- I have Winamp installed (ver.5.56) and awhile back one of my sons installed a few streaming radio stations in my Winamp playlist. Everything works fine, I have since tried to add a few more streaming radio stations and have not been successful, other than for wiping out my Playlist and generally making a mess of things.
- The Winamp playlist organizes your music files, your videos, favorite internet radio stations and all of your media resources into a single, intuitive interface. If you are using Winamp for the first time, then the playlist may be empty.
You can make use of Winamp to listen to online radio and even create your own radio station. With Winamp you can access thousands of radios based on the SHOUTcast Internet radio technology. To access the station list follow these steps. Create and Listen to Online Radio Stations.
You don’t need to buy any software or don’t even need to install another freeware/ shareware available online. Just use the 24 * 7 running [at least on my system] winamp to listen to internet radio stations. No need to spend any extra system resource for that!
Winamp Online
Any version of winamp above 2.5 is ok for this. For playing internet radio, you need winamp playlist files [.pls extension] related with those stations / channels. You can get these files from SHOUTcast directory where you have option to search for radio stations of your choice.
When a radio station of your choice is found, just click on “Tune in” button at the left. Download window opens and you download it, open in Winamp. That’s it!
While choosing, its wise to pick the ones with a better bitrate of around 96kbps to 128 kbps. They provide you with better quality of sound. Even, you may sort the search results by bitrate.
Winamp Stations
There are different genre available on the site like alternative, classical, country, dance/house, funk, jazz, metal, mixed, pop, rap, RnB, rock, talk, techno, 70’s, 80’s and world. The wisest way is to search by yourself.
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