Ditto. Unless there is a transmitter and receiver involved, it is not radio. "Internet radio" is nothing of the sort, it's a digital audio feed.
Hmm. Streaming audio differs from radio in a major fundamental way. Radio is broadcast, streaming audio is point-to-point. Another listener who tunes into a broadcast costs the world nothing, another audio stream costs the world something. In addition, broadcast can't be rationed, streams can.
In my area broadcasts of the music I like are scarce and getting scarcer. Classical music. When I moved here there were two and a fraction classical broadcasters, WFLN, WHYY and WRTI half the day. Went away for a few weeks and when I came back WFLN had been sold and broadcast something obnoxious. WHYY reviewed its audience and where the money came from, went all talk. WRTI somehow acquired 'FLN's music library and some of its announcers, but goes over to what they call jazz daily at 1800. We're at the fringe for WWFM, don't always receive them well. Their announcers talk, badly, too much.
So for me its streaming audio or feed the CD player. I greatly miss France Vivace, a service of Radio France that played interesting music without, as they said, useless babble. Its gone but there's still France Musique. A little heavy on French composers, but that's ok. France Musique is slowly getting US-ified, strings of excerpts instead of longer pieces and many repeated programs. And there's Český rozhlas D-Dur, Czech Radio's classical service. A little heavy on Czech composers but that's ok. Many repeated programs. I'm grateful to both countries' taxpayers who pay for my listening pleasure.
Blockend, when the blighters turn the transmitters off come over to streaming audio. Try
www.francemusique.fr and
www.rozhlas.cz/d-dur Its that, make your own, or own a mountain of CDs and feed the player. Oh, and by the way, France Vivace in particular had very adventurous programming and introduced me to considerable good musique that I'd have ignored otherwise. Les aventures du roi Pausole, for example. Hilarious, and who'd have thought of it? Moskva Chernomuski. A musical comedy by Shostakovitch. Hilarious, and who'd have thought of it?
