My Favorite Free Internet Radio Service
Shoutcast has been around for awhile and it’s a great service. They are
basically a listing service for free internet radio streams. Shoutcast doesn’t
provide the music, they just list the services that do.
basically a listing service for free internet radio streams. Shoutcast doesn’t
provide the music, they just list the services that do.
When you
go to their website it defaults by listing the top stations, but you
can also search for particular genre or a specific station. They have
by far the largest list of streams I’ve seen on the net, and it’s quick
and easy to find and listen to a stream without having to register or
pay a fee.
To play Shoutcast you can use any of a host of different players out there, but for Windows and Linux I’d suggest the following:
Linux:
- xmms
- songbird
- kaffeine
Windows:
- songbird
- winamp
- Anything but Windows Media Player (It really seems to suck for streams)
Shoutcast is really good and I used it many times as well as live365.com and reciba.com
But the site that I really love is
http://www.radiobeta.com
Many radios, you can make your own radio playlist and you don’t have to deal with the annoying pop-up.