What is Internet Radio?
Internet radio is an online radio broadcasting service transmitted via the
Internet. Not every internet "radio station" has a corresponding
traditional radio station. Many internet radio stations are completely
independent from traditional ("terrestrial") radio stations and
broadcast only on the Internet. Broadcasting on the Internet is usually referred
to as streaming.
Because the radio signal is relayed over the Internet, it is possible to access
the stations from anywhere in the world—for example, to listen to a small
local progressive radio station in Little Rock, Arkansas from as far as
Europe or Hong Kong.
This makes it a popular service for expatriates and for people who have
interests that may not be adequately catered for by their local radio stations
(such as progressive rock). Some of the internet radio services offer news,
sports, talkback, and various genres of music—everything that is on the radio
station being re-broadcast.
Time Realms also provides the software to be able to broadcast online radio
worldwide via the internet through our partner , www.spadata.com
Time Realms highly recommends SAM
Broadcaster - a professional DJ system with the ability to stream audio
over the internet to listeners across the world.
SAM
Broadcaster is actually much more than just a "DJ system" - it
is a COMPLETE radio automation solution - a radio station in a box !
Some sort of audio playback software or hardware, that is capable of reading
HTTP data streams, is needed to listen to streaming MP3 audio. Some popular
software players are Winamp for Windows, iTunes for Macintosh and Microsoft
Windows, and XMMS on Unix/Linux. Listening to internet radio through hardware
devices has not been very popular in the past, due to the limited number of
devices on the market, though the availability of such devices and their
consumer popularity is expected to increase significantly during 2006. A list of
commercially available devices is available at Internet radio device, but many
of these are limited in which audio codecs they can use and consequently the
variety of internet radio stations they are compatible with.
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