Live365 (and other Internet radio)

On a related note, my beloved Nibblebox was just bought out by some big media company last week. You can still find them at:

http://www.hypnotic.com/hypnotic.asp?content=/nibblebox_redirect.asp

but there's no direct link to the college stations and the page really looks like shit now. God knows how long this service will be available, but I really, really enjoyed surfing the college stations.

I particularly like KVCU (University of Colorado-Boulder) and I have to plug my alma mater, WNUR (wnur.org). There's also probably some really weird-ass college radio out there, especially late at night (morning to you UK folk), but I dunno how many of those people are online yet. Many of these stations have their own web pages and you can access the webcast directly.

Luckily I am in range of WRAS 88.5 Atlanta, so I don't feel deprived of great radio.

I would like to see internet radio stick around, though. It's a great idea. Part of what I like about it is that anybody can make a station (ahem, like we did: http://www.peopletalktooloud.com) but I fear that if it shows any sign of being popular or commercially viable it will be snatched up and regulated somehow.

That's probably the best thing about net radio, isn't it? A lot of it's done by amateurs so they can afford to play just what they like, maybe be a bit more obsucre and catch listeners who are willing to give different stuff a try. Another great thing about indiepopradio is you don't get an annoying DJ in between records.

http://www.kcrw.com can be quite good too - they have quite a lot of good live sessions which are all in a convenient list to download if you missed them. The Magnetic Fields one is brilliant.

I've never had problems with listening to internet radio, but then I work for a telecom company so my net access is supafast. Ner.

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