Tag: STREAMINGRADIO

While I know it's no big deal to dump a couple of gigs of music onto my 8GB flash drive, sometimes it's nice to fire up some streaming radio for a change of pace. Screamer is available both as an installable application and as a portable executable. Go with the portable version, and you'll be able to take your presets with you wherever you can plug in your USB flash drive. Click on presets, and ...

Attention UK Pandora users: as of January 15, 2008, Pandora will stop streaming its Internet radio content. This comes more than six months after Pandora was forced to shut-down service to most non-US users and is the latest in the continually messy battle over licensing Internet radio. A reader just forwarded us an e-mail from Pandora, explaining the situation. Here are the pertinent bits: ...As ...

Webcasted radio has been taking it on the chin lately, with a proposal to institute insane royalty rates that would effectively spell the end of many popular broadcasters. Those royalty rates were supposed to go into effect this week, but a temporary reprieve and hopes of a new deal kept internet radio thumping along. Everyone sighed relief, but Ars Technica reports that the picture may not be ...

Oh, the memories of days gone by and the web services we once enjoyed. Mashable put together a top-ten of sites which are no longer available thanks to the lawyers, and it reminds us of exactly what we're close to losing. Nine of the sites -- among them Napster, Mp3.com, OLGA and Singing Fish -- are yet sweet memories, while one still stands with one foot in the grave and one on a banana peel; ...