Tag: RADIO

If you're looking for new music, Shuffler.fm is a good place to start. It taps music blogs to create a radio station of the newest songs that are getting online buzz, meaning you always have something fresh to listen to. Start by clicking a genre, and you'll be sent to a blog where music will immediately start. When you hit skip, or the song's done, you're off to the next blog and the next song. ...

Songza is an online-radio site that's been around for a while; I've (very) occasionally been using it for the past two years or so. Up until today, the site's forte was its search feature. You could very easily find a specific track and play it – kind of like what Sad Steve does. But the new Songza is something completely different; they've switched to a "stations" model, where you can ...

Falling asleep to music, podcasts, audio books, or online radio can be very pleasant, but what's not so pleasant is waking up in the middle of the night with audio still playing. If you fall asleep listening to iTunes on your Mac, Lifehacker suggests checking out an AppleScript called iTunes Sleep Timer that will automatically stop playback in iTunes after a pre-set amount of time. Don't worry if ...

Canada requires the television and radio industries to adhere to Canada's Broadcasting Act, which is governed by the Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission (CRTC). Currently, ISPs are not considered broadcasters, and it's pretty obvious to anyone with half a brain that they should not be. However, the CRTC has escalated this issue to the Federal Court of Appeal in order to ...

Citing the renewed competition in the streaming-music sector, paidContent is reporting on Spotify's two new packages: Spotify Unlimited and Spotify Open. Spotify Unlimited -- £4.99/month -- is a cut-down version of the current £9.99/month Premium service. Like the Premium service, all advertising has removed. You don't get offline access from your mobile phone however, nor do you ...

At LAST! Seriously, Spotify is beyond awesome -- and I lament the non-Europeans that can't use it -- but there has always been one missing feature: social sharing. Spotify has always needed a forum; some way to share your playlists, some way to see what your friends are listening to. And now you can... with the omnipotent and omnivorous Facebook Connect! Connect to your Facebook profile and a ...

Last month, I asked whether Snowtape was the best Internet radio app for OS X. The answer is, of course, that it depends on what you're looking for. I recently had a chance to check out Radium, a very different -- but also very good -- Mac Internet radio app. While Snowtape is a more feature-heavy, iTunes-like app, Radium is slick and lightweight. It offers a ton of stations and a minimal UI that ...

Dan Kantor knows the web, and he knows music. Better still, he knows how to make the two play nicely together. If you're not familiar with his work, Dan built Spinner -- AOL's popular music site -- when he was part of our family. Now he's on his own, and he's got a new musical marvel to share: ExtensionFM. While using the extension inside Google Chrome is fun enough, it's easy to see just how ...

Our main man Nik Fletcher loves Spotify -- along with just about everyone else on the Continent who has access to the awesome streaming music service. And while just a few days ago it was unclear whether Spotify would ever make the trek across the Atlantic, today we've got a definite answer. Spotify CEO Daniel Ek has now said that it's coming later this year to the U.S. In an interview with ...

If you're old enough to remember taping songs from the radio, you'll immediately recognize how cool Snowtape is. It's an OS X app that lets you easily find, listen to and record from online radio stations. It's like the combination radio/tape deck of the future! If you were fortunate enough to come of age in the age of the mp3, then just think of Snowtape as the awesome "record" button that ...

On paper, Jelli looks like a good idea. It's an online radio station which brodcasts an m3u playlist file that you can load in any player of your choice. The actual music which gets played is determined by the users who are online -- who can vote songs up and down the list, making it all "democratic" and "social." The trouble is that the site's design is so over-the-top, it's barely ...

After months of detailed (and no doubt painfully boring) discussions involving copyright issues, Slacker Radio is now on the air in Canada! The news was announced today in an official post on the Slacker website. In addition to accessing Slacker via the web, mobile options are also now available to my Canuck brethren - Blackberry and Android apps are ready to rock, and the iPhone version is ...

NPR's mobile radio app, NPR News, is one of my favorite iPhone apps , and now it's available for Android users, too. NPR News gives you quick access to live audio streams from any of NPR's radio stations, as well as the ability to listen to archived NPR shows and segments. The Android version might be even better than the iPhone app, too, because it can run in the background. Apart from its ...

I love my Grooveshark pro subscription - I paid for it a while back when the new VIP preview went live and I've never regretted it. With more new features rolling out and a major announcement today, the service keeps getting better and better. Today's big news: EMI Music and EMI Music Publishing have come on board to "create a mutually sustainable deal which represents the future of digital ...

CBS, the parent company of Last.fm, is launching HD radio stations in the four largest US markets, powered by Last.fm. We've seen traditional radio stations go online before, but it's rare to see an online service take to the airwaves like this. The stations will play music based on Last.fm's weekly charts, which sounds like a Web 2.0 twist on the old call-in countdown votes on the radio stations ...