Good free internet radio stations?

[mitt]

Just cancelled 1 of our sirius accounts, so we will be streaming radio at home to our receiver instead of satelliting it.  What do you recommend?  I want low or no ads, free, and alt / indie / rock.

mitt

[duccarlos]

Welcome to the 21st century:

http://www.pandora.com/#/stations/create/

[mitt]

Welcome to the 21st century:

http://www.pandora.com/#/stations/create/

I was using internet radio a few years ago, so I have been in the 21st for while, just sirius was so damn easy having 2 accounts, we left 1 unit on the home stereo and 1 in our cars.  Now, I need to get back into i-radio on the home stereo and looking for what is out there that is good.

I am using slacker now, and it is OK.

I tried pandora earlier tonight, and it quit playing after a few minutes.  I assumed it was asking for me to creat an accnt?

mitt

[duccarlos]

If you want to save the station, then you have to create an account, but it's free.

[mitt]

If you want to save the station, then you have to create an account, but it's free.

now when I go to pandora, it prompts me to create an acct, I can't do anything else....



mitt

[duccarlos]

That's weird. Delete your cookies and see if that works.

[mitt]

That's weird. Delete your cookies and see if that works.

I went ahead and created an acct.  It seems pretty good so far.

mitt

[duccarlos]

Yeah, I find it very nice as I have to sit through many conference calls that I don't really pay attention to.

[Monster Dave]

radio.aol.com

[badgalbetty]

the first 40 hours on Pandora a month are free. Then its 99c until the end of the month. If you want no ads then I believe it is around $36.00 per annum. I cannot afford that so its free for the first week or so then a buck for the rest of the month.
BGB

[victor441]

Just cancelled 1 of our sirius accounts, so we will be streaming radio at home to our receiver instead of satelliting it.  What do you recommend?  I want low or no ads, free, and alt / indie / rock.

mitt

Buy a wifi radio, 17,000+ stations, searchable by genre, location, etc, sure to be something out there you will like....they don't do anything a computer won't but the experience is better and different and they are now down to $100 for a cheap one.  There is a great article on them at http://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2007/12/radio-free-everywhere/6433/

[DoubleEagle]

The neat thing about Pandora is you select 5 different Artists you like as accounts and Pandora then plays songs by that Artist on that Account or Station which you select and other Artists that play similar style music.

So you can have 5 entirely different kinds of music represented to listen to.

Dolph     

[Dietrich]

For "no ads, free, and alt / indie / rock" I've been listening to Radio Paradise for several years...real DJ and lot's of variety.

www.radioparadise.com

[mitt]

Buy a wifi radio, 17,000+ stations, searchable by genre, location, etc, sure to be something out there you will like....they don't do anything a computer won't but the experience is better and different and they are now down to $100 for a cheap one.  There is a great article on them at http://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2007/12/radio-free-everywhere/6433/

That might be an option.  I have never looked into them.  What is difference between those 10,000+ stations and stations you get using a browser and laptop?

I saw this one for 150$ that looked pretty nice:


http://www.amazon.com/Philips-NP2500-37-Internet-Rhapsody/dp/B001L2IKYE



mitt

[duccarlos]

That does look good!