Sorry your browser is not supported!

You are using an outdated browser that does not support modern web technologies, in order to use this site please update to a new browser.

Browsers supported include Chrome, FireFox, Safari, Opera, Internet Explorer 10+ or Microsoft Edge.

Geek Culture / Internet Radio Stations?

Author
Message
Fallout
22
Years of Service
User Offline
Joined: 1st Sep 2002
Location: Basingstoke, England
Posted: 19th Jan 2006 21:34
Link
Any of you guys regularly listen to internet radio? If so, what're your fave stations? I'm starting to find internet radio beats the crap out of most FM or digi stations.

I'm currently listening to drum'n'bass radio BassDrive.com. Lots of quality smooth chilled out mix sets. Friendly chat room. Lots of shout outs and a few of the DJs play out my music at the end of their mixes.

Community spirit and good music. What do you guys listen to?

Back to top
Profile PM
Darkbasic MADPSP
19
Years of Service
User Offline
Joined: 15th Jun 2005
Location: Uk
Posted: 19th Jan 2006 22:32
Link
um rock music can't rember the link it is tho

where i went on holiday to
www.portaventura.es and also http://themepark.nl/ubbthreads/showflat.php?Cat=0&Board=UBB7&Number=661483&page=0&fpart=all
Back to top
Profile PM Website
Tinkergirl
21
Years of Service
User Offline
Joined: 1st Jul 2003
Location: United Kingdom
Posted: 19th Jan 2006 22:34
Link
Occasionally, Club977. Be warned though - it's pure 80's rock. You can hear the hair.
Back to top
Profile PM
Kangaroo2 BETA2
21
Years of Service
User Offline
Joined: 23rd Aug 2003
Location: Somerset / UK
Posted: 19th Jan 2006 22:35
Link
I used to have my own station on Live365.com but then they hawked up the prices


Preorder EA here:http://forum.thegamecreators.com/?m=forum_view&t=67575&b=8&p=0
+ Model Pro out now in Program Announcements!
Back to top
Profile PM Email
lagmaster
22
Years of Service
User Offline
Joined: 26th Aug 2002
Playing:
Posted: 19th Jan 2006 22:47
Link
i listen to a lot of internet radio lately.

most of them are trance music:

deviantaudio.com
etn.fm
di.fm

lagmaster
Devhat IRC Network [href=irc://irc.devhat.net] -> MIRC link <- [/href]
Back to top
Profile PM Email
Jeku
Moderator
21
Years of Service
User Offline
Joined: 4th Jul 2003
Location: Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
Posted: 19th Jan 2006 23:03
Link
I'm starting to dig Lounge Music--- one in particular is called Groove Salad, which is one of the top stations on Shoutcast.

Right now it's playing Air - Playground Love (Vibraphone version) which is one of my favourite songs from my favourite band


Automaton Games website has been revamped! Check it out!
Back to top
Profile PM Website
Fallout
22
Years of Service
User Offline
Joined: 1st Sep 2002
Location: Basingstoke, England
Posted: 20th Jan 2006 00:00
Link
Ahh. This is good stuff, cos I like a bit of Lounge or even 80s big hair rock now and then. I have pretty much every Iron Maiden CD! I was working to some classical music the other day. Gotta have variety. Right ... a few of these stations are going in my favourites.

Back to top
Profile PM
JoelJ
21
Years of Service
User Offline
Joined: 8th Sep 2003
Location: UTAH
Posted: 20th Jan 2006 07:09
Link
http://x96.com

it's a local station here, but they stream online best station in Utah

Back to top
Profile PM Website
Jeku
Moderator
21
Years of Service
User Offline
Joined: 4th Jul 2003
Location: Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
Posted: 20th Jan 2006 08:29
Link
I can't listen to real radio stations anymore, because the commercials drive me crazy. They are loud and obnioxious, and the characters are all idiots. The advertisers must really think we're all a bunch of ignorant dorks.


Automaton Games website has been revamped! Check it out!
Back to top
Profile PM Website
JoelJ
21
Years of Service
User Offline
Joined: 8th Sep 2003
Location: UTAH
Posted: 20th Jan 2006 09:02
Link
Quote: "The advertisers must really think we're all a bunch of ignorant dorks."

I just wish the Arnold Swartzinager impersonations and the gay jingles would end...

Back to top
Profile PM Website
Fallout
22
Years of Service
User Offline
Joined: 1st Sep 2002
Location: Basingstoke, England
Posted: 20th Jan 2006 10:47
Link
hahaha. That's harsh! On terrestrial radio over here, the best stations are really the BBC stations (with the exception of some local stations). Radio 1, 1Xtra etc. Because it's the BBC, there're no advertisements at all. But, unlike internet radio, you still have to wait for that particular show that plays the music you like. Radio 1 has some interesting characters, but not a lot of my sort of music. 1Xtra is better, but still a bit r&b heavy. But still ... no ads! Only station related jingles!

I love the way on 1Xtra there is some hard voiced girl going "1 EXTRA!!! TEEEEEE EEECCCKKKS" for the news. They even try and make the news cooler than it actually is by calling it TX. I'm not allowed to listen to it though, because it's the "new black music radio station". I am outside of their target gene pool apparently.

Back to top
Profile PM
Oraculaca
21
Years of Service
User Offline
Joined: 6th Jan 2003
Location: Scotland
Posted: 20th Jan 2006 11:22
Link
I listen to BBC Radio 2. Im getting old

GrieveArt
Back to top
Profile PM
Tinkergirl
21
Years of Service
User Offline
Joined: 1st Jul 2003
Location: United Kingdom
Posted: 20th Jan 2006 12:14
Link
Terrestrially, I liked Kerrang.
There's still adverts, but they're usually not complete suck. The presenters are boring (or overly annoying) but the music is pure rock/metal. Which is nice. I believe they do a net-radio version too for those not in the broadcast area.
Back to top
Profile PM
Kangaroo2 BETA2
21
Years of Service
User Offline
Joined: 23rd Aug 2003
Location: Somerset / UK
Posted: 20th Jan 2006 12:39 Edited at: 20th Jan 2006 12:41
Link
Radio one is pretty cool, but then I like a good mix of music, and I'm swayed by the fact i like most of their "personality" djs. They do tend to play the same 20 songs over and over again in the daytime though.

I think that many of the really annoying jingle song/parody/celebrity impersonator based ads in the UK may be the fault of my old local radio station in Gloucester - there was a company called "glevum windows" who started doing it in the lates 70s, initially they were different and quite funny but they became insanely popular and almost "cult" - the marketting company got bought out and then started making national ads which were initially all identical but changed "glevum" to "coldseal" windows. And then they started making ads for every frickin body, played on every local radio station around the country. Good for them, annoying for the public, sorry about that!

On a side note Glevum windows also started the career of many models including Melinda Messanger by doing press ads with them in their underwear framed by a window. The Sun and th Star signed most of the girls up for page 3/glamour work on the basis of those ads.


Preorder EA here:http://forum.thegamecreators.com/?m=forum_view&t=67575&b=8&p=0
+ Model Pro out now in Program Announcements!
Back to top
Profile PM Email
adr
21
Years of Service
User Offline
Joined: 21st May 2003
Location: Job Centre
Posted: 20th Jan 2006 13:15
Link
I used to listen to WeFunkRadio a lot - I should start doing it again. It's got a very nice mix of classic funk with modern R&B.

[center]
iv tryed everything!!!!!!!!!! could u please just add The gun and shooting Code thats All!!!!!!!!!
Back to top
Profile PM Website
Teh Go0rfmeister
21
Years of Service
User Offline
Joined: 17th Aug 2003
Location:
Posted: 24th Jan 2006 20:24
Link
EGLN is a gamers radio station, i used to be a DJ on there, but had to give up due to exams, im currently in the process of craling my way back in.

[href]www.eglnetwork.com[/href]

Back to top
Profile PM Website
Megaton Cat
21
Years of Service
User Offline
Joined: 24th Aug 2003
Location: Toronto, Canada
Posted: 24th Jan 2006 20:41 Edited at: 24th Jan 2006 20:42
Link
80's rock? The BBC?

You guys are Flinstones.

So how was life back then? You know...back when the dinosaurs walked the Earth.

Back to top
Profile PM Email Website
Codelike
18
Years of Service
User Offline
Joined: 13th Dec 2005
Location: DBP - Scouseland
Posted: 24th Jan 2006 20:53 Edited at: 24th Jan 2006 20:54
Link
Talking of '80's rock...
David Lee Roth's just got his own radio talk show.

the headcase is back...

http://david.freefm.com/

I have an XP3000+, 1.5gb DDR333, a 6600GT and I'm programming 3k text-based exe's?!
Back to top
Profile PM
Wiggett
21
Years of Service
User Offline
Joined: 31st May 2003
Location: Australia
Posted: 27th Jan 2006 11:47
Link
I actually wanted to start up a net radio station here at the office to help promote RMITV, haven't looke dtoo much further into it yet though. Any cheap (by cheap i mean free) systems to use

Syndicate remastered: Corporate persuasion through urban violence.
Back to top
Profile PM Website
blanky
20
Years of Service
User Offline
Joined: 3rd Aug 2004
Location: ./
Posted: 28th Jan 2006 20:26 Edited at: 28th Jan 2006 20:38
Link
If you've got a spare box on the net, you can use the Shoutcast stuff. You can DJ from another computer (or the same one) using just standard WinAmp with an extra plugin installed...

The tools are übar-decent and yet really really cheap, where 'really really cheep' means 100% free.

You can run a server on linux-capable stuff, but you'll have to DJ from a windows machine.

Go to http://www.shoutcast.com/download/ and check out both the 'Be a DJ' and the 'Be a server' links.

(If this is the right sort of thing that you're after, but you're not using Windows (yeah, I've seen your mac)/you don't like winamp for some strange reason, google for IceCast. That's more of the same only more open-source.)

Support us! Click! Image! Visit! Site!
Back to top
Profile PM Email Website
Wiggett
21
Years of Service
User Offline
Joined: 31st May 2003
Location: Australia
Posted: 29th Jan 2006 07:25
Link
yeah i got that shoutcast thing here at home, not too sure on how to set it up without killing my bandwidth, but if i use it at the office the student union pays for that

Syndicate remastered: Corporate persuasion through urban violence.
Back to top
Profile PM Website
Back to top

Login to post a reply

Server time is: 2024-11-16 10:40:00
Your offset time is: 2024-11-16 10:40:00