What are your Favourite Radios?

[Marc]

Well here are mine...

Favourite Radio in all genres?
All Hit Remixes @ MEGASHUFFLE.com - Genre: Top 40 Remixed; Electro House

Favourite Radios by categories

Generic Party
Las Mas Bailadas

Dance
1.FM - Dance

Club
Ministry of Sound Radio
1.FM Pacha FM

Pop Dance
Top 100 Station - Germanys No.1 Web Hit Station
181.FM The Vibe of Vegas
NRJ

Rock
181.fm - The Eagle (Your Home For REAL Classic Rock!)
Lkcb 128.4 Classic Rock..24/7..Live!
Hard Rockin80s.com

Latin
Buenamusica.com
1.FM Top Fiesta
SalsayRumbaOnline
La X Estereo - 100% Pura Salsa

New Age / Meditation
Meditation - RADIOTUNES.COM
Radio Caprice Meditation

Folk
Folk Alley
Thistle Radio - An exploration of music from Celtic roots [SomaFM]
RadioAccordeon
Radio Caprice - Native American
CanalSevillanas

Jazz
Electro Jazz (Radionomy)
Digitally Imported - Electro Swing
181.fm - Fusion Jazz
Sonic Universe. Nu Jazz plus (SomaFM)
Acid Jazz 181.FM
Acid Jazz Lounge (AJL)
CROOZE.fm - a unique mix of Smooth & Acid Jazz, Funk, Soul, Latin, R&B, Lounge a
AddictedToRadio.com - Big Band Cantina
Dave Koz & Friends - Radiotunes

Blues
AddictedToRadio.com - Bar Rockin' Blues
AddictedToRadio.com - Blues Classics
1.FM Blues Radio

Soundtracks & Scores
StreamingSoundtracks.com
Arcade Radio - The largest Collection of Retro Game Music

Brazilian Music
Clube Brasil (No longer exists)
AmbianceBrasil
Blue Bossa Nova
Paul In Rio Radio

Classical
ABCClassic
Venice Classic Radio Italia

R&B - Soul & Funk
Atlantic Oldies 2NG
Soulful Bits
Classic Motown - Radiotunes

Chillout & Lounge
Motion FM Lounge - Downtempo Rhythms & Laid Back Lounge
Chillout Dreams - Digitally Imported - Relax to the sounds of dream and ibiza st
LoungeFM - Chill Out
Chillout Lounge Radio (1.FM)

House
Cavoparadiso
Amsterdams Most Wanted [powered by The Three Sisters Pub Amsterdam]
Sensation Radio International (No longer Exists)

Trance & Psytrance
Epic Trance - Digitally Imported - Epic & uplifting trance hits
FullOn Channel - AcidRadio
psyradio.fm

Tech House
Tech House - Digitally Imported
LeCandyLab Radio

Breakbeat
Bassjunkees.com - Drum & Bass, Oldskool, Jungle & Dubstep 24/7 - Once Locked Addicted for Life!
Radio Caprice Breakbeat

A Recapitulation of Online Radio Networks
1. Shoutcast
2. Radionomy
3. Tunein
4. Icecast
5. 1.FM
6. 181.FM
7. SomaFM
8. Digitally Imported
9. RadioTunes (Former Sky.fm)
10. AddictedToRadio
11. Radio Caprice
12. GotRadio
13. ABC
14. MusicClub24
15. 412Live
10. Jazz.com
11. FrescaRadio.com

[joby_toss]

Most of the time I'm listening to Radio Alouette, sometimes I just start the radio app with a random station, but when I'm in mood for some good songs I just run Mylene Farmer's station.

I was under the impression that RadioTunes and Digitally Imported require registration (to play past 1 hour or something); is that accurate?

[Marc]

I seem to recap after 30min it asks to do so; I registered in both as it was free afterwards (with reduced quality compared to premium).
But after
http://www.radiotunes.com/founder-letter
Streams cant be played on Tunein or locally (Winamp or another player) and quality it is further reduced.

[Napiophelios]

I like Vanilla Ninja Radio
its good background music..usually pretty laid back.

[Midas]

SomaFM (http://somafm.com/) ftw -- mostly Groove Salad, but also Lush, Sonic Universe, Illinois Street Lounge, and Beat Blender. And Earwaves on particular hazy days.

[tproli]

Radios? I prefer checkboxes

[joby_toss]

SomaFM is quite nice, thank's for that, Midas!
And BTW, the stations are included in PRP.

[Userfriendly]

I used to just play SkyFM/RadioTunes and Digitally Imported for every genre of music I wanted to listen to. But now their free streams is restricted to web browser play and could no longer listen to their playlist in foobar2000 which sucked. I listen to mostly chillout, trance, drum & bass, instrumentals and new age. Classic 90s EDM and 60s,70s,80, 90s pop oldies. I'll toss in some current pop, rock, and rap hits to keep up to date with the trends.

TL;DR I listen to ALL the music.

But honestly 90% of my listening time these days is just videogame and anime/jpop music because I'm a giant weeb. Two online radio stations specifically:
Rainwave - http://rainwave.cc/
AnimeNFO - https://www.animenfo.com/radio/nowplaying.php

I'll use Pandora sometimes but through Elpis https://github.com/adammhaile/Elpis , a Windows desktop app. Not natively portable but you can use any launcher like paf or yap to make it one. It's nice because it skips ads and frees up your web browser resources.

[Marc]

TL;DR I listen to ALL the music.

uh sorry for the long thread

Thanks Userfriendly I was only aware of the Chiptunes channel from Rainwave!! I really liked Games, All and Covers.

Question - I have noticed some radio streams are named "ogg mp3" which can be played in any mp3 supported player but with better quality similar to an aac stream. in Rainwave channels ogg and mp3 are separated.

And BTW, the stations are included in PRP.

Didn't tried it before, in time to update some radios streams. One particular feature I found great is the ability to sort be date added, which is great for keeping up to date.

I'm missing a good french chanson/top 40 french radio... actually NRJ French Hits is good but it doesn't list artist - song metadata.

[webfork]

Question - I have noticed some radio streams are named "ogg mp3" which can be played in any mp3 supported player but with better quality similar to an aac stream. in Rainwave channels ogg and mp3 are separated.

That's a question?

Radios? I prefer checkboxes

hehehe

[Marc]

That's a question?

Ok the question is what is that "ogg mp3" format.

[Userfriendly]

ogg vorbis is an audio format that has better sound quality than mp3 at low bitrates. Since they rainwave seems to stream both ogg and mp3 at the same bitrate, if your player supports it, you should choose ogg for better quality.

In other radio stations they usually offer something like 40kbps AAC stream along with 96kbps MP3. The main difference between them is just the bitrate meaning AAC is more bandwidth friendly but offers pretty much the same quality as the higher bitrate MP3. AAC is just more efficient in encoding audio down to low bitrates compared to MP3. If you're player supports both, say a smartphone on 4G, then the 40kbps AAC is the no brainer option. Save data without sacrificing much quality.

Its only around 192kbps and above is where you shouldn't hear any difference between any of the different audio compression formats. AAC and OGG are both better than MP3 at bitrates lower than 192kbps. MP3 starts to lose a noticeable amount of high frequency audio information (16-17 kHz) at around 160kbps. A lot of people might be fine with 128k or lower if they have trouble hearing above 15 kHz but at that bitrate the low frequencies are also somewhat distorted.

[Marc]

Please check the atached file; the same stream is identified as ogg but in Winamp it is reported as mpeg. And it sounds like ogg..

[webfork]

@Userfriendly: That's a solid overview.

[Marc]

@Userfriendly
I'm sorry I didn't say it before... thanks for that throughout explanation.