Here's a plug for a service that I discovered when I set up my desktop PC again (pulled it out of storage so I could do testing for work). Anyway, I have Windows Media Player up and I'm desperate to have some good music to listen to. My office abuts my workshop (where I build my RC planes) so I thought, "why not use Windows Media Player to stream some music?"
So that's how I found Accuradio. They offer a ton of different channels, including quite a few jazz ones (my love for listening all evening). One very nice feature is that you can turn on or off the artists you would like to hear. Very nifty.
I'm playing the Cool Jazz channel right now.. lots of Chet Baker, Ahmad Jamal, and Miles Davis. Old friends, all. It's a bit of a relief to get away from the TV and do something with my hands.
If you're a PC-type try it out. I haven't tried it with my Mac yet -- I doubt it works but you never know. There are some good channels on iTunes as well. This has inspired me to go out and get a new turntable.
(nb. I just checked, they are starting to provide their channels for the Mac as well.)
Vinyl, here I come.. :>
Posted by artandscience at January 30, 2005 11:17 PM | TrackBackAccuRadio used to be super cool until they added Vonage to their advertisers. Since then I have not been able to load the redio station, just the Vonage advert that says "Modern Rock Classics" will load in a a moment...". That moment never comes...
Too bad I had told a lot of people about that station.
I noticed something odd the other day. When I upgraded from Media Player 7 to 9 I lost easy access to the Accuradio channels. I had to really search for them and then when they came up I didn't seem to have the full set. Very odd.
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Posted by: limage at March 5, 2005 01:23 AMi also recently used Accuradio, but ever since then, i keep having pop-up adertisements. and i'm not sure but i have a feeling their advertisements contains spyware. but i'm not saying this is true yet, i'm still checking it out.
Posted by: summer at March 27, 2005 11:10 AMI googled it but I didn't find a reference to pop-ups with Accuradio. It's quite possible that if you use IE you are getting pop-ups because something was downloaded without your knowing it.
Try using Firefox and see if the pop-ups stop (they may not). Also, get an anti-spyware tool (like the MS Antispyware tool or Spybot Search & Destroy) and see if there is spyware/adware running on your PC.
Posted by: stefan at March 27, 2005 03:40 PM