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I hate Pandora. I choose a genre, and it is OK at first, then keeps widening and widening the scope of the genre, until I am clicking Skip for almost every song.
About a dozen times, I've tried to listen to internet radio, and I always fail. What do I have to do?
I go and select a station, and click "listen, and it just reloads the page with a banner at the top that says "Plugins missing". I click it to install missing plugins, and it says "plugins not found" and asks if I want to install them manually. OK, lets do it -- but all I get is a big pictury Windows Medial Player screen telling me how important it is to make sure my plugins are up to date, and which ones I have, and do I want to like them on Facebook.
Sometimes the internet radio site, tells me I need to download their Codec. I go through that process, install the codec or some other player which may or may not be a virus ( like "iLivid" for example) go back to the radio station and try again, and it just sends me down the plugin dead end again.
Does anybody here actually listen to internet radio, and if so, how do you get through all this crap? If you want to listen to 100 station, do you have to install 100 different codecs and 100 different plugins?
It depends on how the station decides to stream its audio.
Stations can just put out a regular MP3 stream which any normal program (Media Player, Winamp, etc) can access.
Other stations will use certain programs like I Heart Radio or Tune In. ESPN Radio seems to have their own media player that plays thru the web browser.
Some stations do have you jump through hoops to get their audio stream - for advertising or security reasons.
The only radio I listen to is pandora. Just sign up with a username and you can create an endless amount of stations for your different tastes.
If you want to widen it, you can add more artists. Don't like a song, give it a thumbs down. It learns what you like and is a great way to find new music you like.
I have a station for dave matthews and 80% of the songs it plays are dave matthews.
I have a 90's station I created - I put in a bunch of my favorite songs and used the thumbs up or down and it plays great songs for me.
Think you just need flash player.
Don't just skip the song, give it a thumbs down and it will stop playing it and songs like it.
Mostly I listen to Dutch [URL="https://luisteren.nl"]Radio[/URL] in Netherlands.
U don't need to download anything, it's a web-radio portal, called [url]https://luisteren.nl[/url]
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Get the "Radio Garden" app, and you can listen to stations all over the world. I stick to those in English mostly but it's still fun to hear another language now and then and wonder what they are talking about.
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