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There's a ridiculous amount of free media content available from the Internet Archive, and the most interesting downloads are often the oldest ones. With masterpieces like Alfred Hitchcock films, gunslinging John Wayne westerns and reels of stock footage and home movies, you'd be forgiven for forgetting the audio archives exist at all.
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Who doesn't love Internet radio? I was a slow adopter when it came to streaming online music, but now I’m a believer and I wouldn't have it any other way. Fortunately, the technology has been continually advancing and now we've got a number of great mobile music streaming services. Jango Radio is one of them and it most definitely deserves your attention.
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Whether you're reading, cleaning, cooking, or hiding dead bodies, music can always help enhance your favorite activities. With the advent of smartphones, this makes it so much easier! (Except the dead bodies part – that's always pretty difficult. I'm not saying this from experience, though – or am I?) However, there's a wide – and somewhat overpopulated – selection of music apps out there to choose from.
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Aware that I should probably listen to the occasional contemporary sound, I became a convert to the BBC's 6 Music channel, which plays an astounding mix of great tunes from the 1950's to the 2010's. Now able to get my fix of good music, it suddenly occurred to be one day when I was heading out that I would be unable to listen to this digital-only radio station in the street – without a suitable mobile app with which to do so.
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Speaking of the iPhone and Spotify, it is a little disheartening to think that radio could give way to these newer, sexier modes of listening to (and sharing) music. But even still, radio has fought harder battles before. Televisions came along, and stations survived. Even with satellite radio, the AM and FM frequencies didn't give up. However, I bring to you a new form of radio that brings it to your iPhone with the convenience of Spotify - TuneIn Radio.
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Just as the Internet provides an opportunity for almost everyone to post a blog, a webpage, or a simple Twitter page, the ability to host your own radio show can be accomplished with a simple registration, using an online service like BlogTalkRadio. BlogTalk has become a popular audio podcasting platform for thousands of users who host shows on a wide range of topics.
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Anyone who even remotely enjoys music - and I believe that's most of us - will absolutely love it when they discover new music that they like. We have a number of highly popular music services which allow us to do just that, including Spotify and Pandora. However, those definitely aren't the only names in the music discovery business. In fact, some have existed for quite a while, including Slacker Radio.
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I've got some incredibly bipolar musical interests, and it feels as if I've been listening to the same 2,000 songs for the past many years. Manually finding new musical interests is a thing of the past thanks to Pandora and alternatives, and streaming music and Internet radio is on a huge uptick thanks to applications like Spotify. No matter how many automated taste-tweaking applications I go through, nothing compares to SomaFM.
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Listening to online radio (or even offline) is something I won’t recommend for focused productivity. But I agree…sometimes you just feel like it. I also switch on my favorite online radio station (who listens to offline radio stations these days?) especially when I am doing some ho-hum work on the browser and just want to prevent the yawns. Radio Player Live is an online radio extension for Chrome that has also been recommended on The Best Chrome Extensions page.
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You've probably heard of Audacity. It's a free cross-platform application for recording and mixing, which also happens to be incredibly powerful and versatile. You can use it to record vocals, instruments and other sounds, mix them up into something useful and then create a music file to share. Many people use Audacity for podcasts or music mixing, but that's not all it's good for.
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If you've been wondering how one goes about setting up an online radio station then you're in luck. There are a number of simple ways to make an online radio station involving nothing more than some free software and a microphone attached to your computer. There's also a lot of variety in costs and radio types depending on whether you're a professional or a hobbyist - or somewhere in between.
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College Football Radio & Live Scores ($0.99) is quite a long name for an app, and a fairly descriptive one at that. I don’t know an awful lot about American football, and truth be told I prefer my balls to be round than oval shaped. If you’re a fan of stateside college football then read on for the full review. We're also giving away 25 copies, so join the giveaway if you'd like a chance to grab this app for free.
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Music is one of the most traded forms of media on the Internet. But what’s the best way to get your hands on your favorite albums? If you’re tapped into an online radio station or streaming music through a service like Youtube, you can actually record it directly and save it to your computer. How can you do it? By using a program like Audials One 9.
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Yes. It’s possible! With a simple browser extension in Google Chrome, you can listen to Pandora without any ads or even having it open. How? Let me introduce you to Anesidora. So how does Anesidora manage to pull out the audio ads and access Pandora? I have no idea, but that’s ok – I just enjoy the distraction free listening, and now you can too!
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Radio has moved on considerably over the past few years. While FM (Frequency Modulation) is still the most popular platform, the combination of DAB (Digital Audio Broadcasting) and the Internet has expanded the options people have for listening to both music and speech stations.
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