Resources for Free Music on the Internet
Like I always say, if there is anything better than a discount it has be freebies! And since I discovered the internet radio or streaming audio I have a terrific source of free music listening and access to stations that I can modify, skip, and search for at will. Since I spend a lot of time on the net, I always have some or other music streaming the background and I thought that those of my readers who are not already aware of these sites could gain from this knowledge.
Just a little note of caution here – if you have a limited internet plan, or the sort that you pay for depending upon the amount of downloading or internet use in terms of megabytes or gigabytes, then audio streaming is not the thing for you – an unlimited plan is best. Also, if you still have that anachronism, the dial up modem and you don’t have broadband then this is also no use for you.
My favorite such site for audio streaming is Jango.com. You can select the genre of music, the artiste, and even create your own stations according to your personal preferences. Also when you do an artiste music search, you also get a bunch of options for videos of the artist you may want to watch and a short artist bio. What I like most about sites such as Jango is the fact that you don’t have to listen to any song that you don’t like, you can simply skip that track. The audio player is built into the site’s page so you don’t get a pop out player.
Radio Tower is another site I recommend, that offers all the genres (I am currently listening to some 70’s tracks and the song playing right now is Country Roads). Here you can pick the country you’re in and then play songs according to the language you want to listen to. some stations have a pop up station that will play the music you choose or will use Real Player, windows media player or Winamp (whichever one you pick) to play the music.
I have now switched to listening to the Salsa Stream (Latin) from the site Shoutcast.com, which is playing a lively, lovely track that I never heard before, but which is making me want to get up and dance! A neat little audio player at the bottom of the page can also be made to pop out if you want. You can stop but there did not seem to be the option of skipping.
So go ahead and enjoy these free music listening resources; as I do. All the time!
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