Music, radio and sound links

Music, radio and sound links.

What the words mean.

Streaming
means playing the music instantly from a file on a remote server (a computer on the Internet).
Downloading
means you save the music file to your own computer so you can play it later; you would normally expect to pay for downloaded music.

Online music.

Spotify.
Free and paid-for streaming; pay for downloadable MP3 tracks; Facebook account required for new sign-ups.
Last.fm.
A music discovery and recommendation service, and a way of creating personalised Internet ‘radio stations’ based on your music preferences.

Grooveshark.
A music search engine and music streaming service, allowing users to search for, and stream, music that can be played immediately or added to a playlist.
YouTube Disco.
A simple way to find music on YouTube.

Internet radio.

On the WWW.

Radio Player.
‘UK radio in one place’. Use the search box or browse to find a station.
BBC.
- BBC Radio.
  Links to BBC Radio stations on air now.
- BBC Radio London.
- BBC Radio 4.
Radio Mozart.
Non-stop Mozart.
Audio Book Internet Radio.
‘A free radio station dedicated to broadcasting stories, drama, poetry and author interviews’.
Don’t click on the large Listen Now button – better to scroll down one inch to the Winamp Player button.
TuneIn.
Searchable links to Internet radio stations.
Age UK Live.
‘A radio station dedicated to playing a mix of music, entertainment, and information to improve later life in the UK’.

On your desktop.

SHOUTcast.
SHOUTcast is software for creating and listening to Internet radio. The website has a searchable directory of Internet radio stations with a built-in media player; easy to use but the search is sometimes slow.
Winamp.
A SHOUTcast player that you can download and install on your own computer. Very reliable, but remarkably ugly. We have it on most of our computers at The Lawns. Winamp is also a good general-purpose media player – but not as good as our preferred VLC (which can do everything except stream SHOUTcast).