[Thump553]

I listen to internet radio at work.  Low volume, fairly noisy office so fidelity is not a major concern (ie, mp3 quality acceptable).  One of my favorite stations is WUMB (folk music) over live365com's player.  If you go directly to WUMB's website (http://www.wumb.org/) instead of starting at www.live365com you will get all the music for free without the annoying live365 station breaks.

Live365 has lots and lots of stations, of all different variety.  Sometimes they are blacked out except to pay users ($3 per month).  Nonpay users get subjected to annoying station breaks, and the rare paid commercial, whenever you change stations or every ten minutes or so.  There is something there for almost any taste-I like Biker Bar Live! and Into The Mystic.  http://www.live365.com/index.live  An interesting twist is you can set up your own station on live365, apparently pretty easily, if you have the mp3s.

I've just wandered into Yahoo's service, http://www.launch.com.  This seems to be a similar service to live365, with pay and non-pay versions.  Both claim higher quality for pay users.  Many more of launch's stations are blacked out to nonpay users.  On the positive side, launch has a feature to rate the songs which will fine-tune your playlist, and no ads (at least so far) for nonpay users.

All of these appear to be legit and pay royalities to the artists.

Anyone have any other reccomendations?

[srclose]

If you like jazz, KPLU offers traditional jazz all day long and blues on the weekend.  They have a broadband service with good fidelity, Abacast.  I have it on all day.

[kbuzz3]

Quality issues aside from a programming standpoint you cant beat two ther stations. WBGO newark, nj and WWoz in new orleans, if you listen make sure to send them a check for a few bucks as its tax deductible and they are non-for profit. Which incidentally explains why they play such good music

great mix of jazz, blues and new orleans rn b

[doug s.]

http://wpfw.org/

check their schedule for programming.  if yure in the dc metro area, their fm broadcast quality is outstanding.

doug s.

[HarleyMYK]

While working, I enjoy Houndog Radio Houndog Radio Website  and Mystic Radio http://www.mysticradio.com/.  Both provide a high quality MP3 winamp type stream.

For a huge free selection check out Shout Cast http://www.shoutcast.com/

[hubcaps]

www.wxrt.com has great rock

www.kcrw.com very um... eclectic music, know for popularizing artists like norah jones and coldplay.  some times it's just talk radio (npr), but they have a great archive of programs, especially in studio performances.

[Hantra]

XM now does their thing on the Net!  It's good stuff!  

The talk isn't on the Net b/c of licensing, but all the great music channels are on there. . .  It's cheap too!  No equipment to buy!

[mca]

Just found this and there are some great stations listed here!

Just curious if anyone has found a good source for online Christmas music?

[cjr888]

I listen to internet radio at work.  Low volume, fairly noisy office so fidelity is not a major concern (ie, mp3 quality acceptable).  One of my favorite stations is WUMB (folk music) over live365com's player.  If you go directly to WUMB's website (http://www.wumb.org/) instead of starting at www.live365com you will get all the music for free without the annoying live365 station breaks.

Live365 has lots and lots of stations, of all different variety.  Sometimes they are blacked out except to p ...

If you like WUMB, you'd probablt like WFUV out of NYC http://www.wfuv.org/