Internet radio

[Batz]

Any of your guys listen to internet radio?

I have it set up to my stereo and listen to heaps of stations all over the planet.

My local station I like 4KQ 693AM Brisbane....shows my age.

I'll like to know your favorite

Batz

[Papaw]

I have Pandora in the background while at work. I have a wide spectrum of favorites, but Blues, real old country, modern blues guitar, and Norah Jones are my top ones.

I used to listen to a very small internet radio group out of Canada that had a chat line with it, but it died when a bunch of members lost interest.

[gibsontool]

I would say that my cirrius radio is tuned to Willy Nelsons old time country music 99% of the time. I never seem to get tired of it (but my wife sure does), check it out, channel 56. Jim

[OilyRascal]

Like Papaw, I use Pandora on my smarter-than-me phone for streaming music over the internet.  I suppose you could call that "Radio".  I like Pandora because it creates a "channel" based on your artist or song then attempts a playlist based on your interaction of thumbs up, or thumbs down, of music it presents within the channel.  Thumbs down and I don't seem to hear it again - EVER.  Thumbs up and it seems to increment the frequency.

Just last night I was thumbing through some Sylvania 1940's - 1950's automotive radio repair manuals.  We have come a LONG WAY in audio technology over the last 60-70 years.  (insert tool context here) I didn't find a SINGLE specialty tool reference in my reading :-(

I also like Nora Jones, and would add Enya and Enigma.  I have no idea what genre that'd fall in - if any. 

[scottg]

Just last night I was thumbing through some Sylvania 1940's - 1950's automotive radio repair manuals.  We have come a LONG WAY in audio technology over the last 60-70 years.  (insert tool context here) I didn't find a SINGLE specialty tool reference in my reading :-(

  Only two kinds of music. Good and Bad
I like everything, when its truly good. And dislike anything when its bad. I have stood on my feet and cried for the kids in a jr high band and I walked out on Jimi Hendrix.  Turned my back on Janis Joplin once too. She was too sad and embarrassing that night.

  Any kind, any style, any flavor. Its either good or its bad. Nobody bats 1000. 
 Some risk it all and lose it all often. But when they hit,
 oh mamma when they hit!

You bring a tear to Willie's eye? That's something
  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2UW4ELmVD9M

 I had a 65 Ford Lah De Dah for some years. Size of a parade float.  It had one of the last of the big tube radios. The radio alone probably weighed as much as a Geo. It was AM only, but when I got it tuned up and settled in, I could get stations on the north shore of Alaska, in the daytime!
  yours Scott

[fflintstone]

FWIW I like a wide variety of music but unfortunately country music is like nails on a chalk board to me. This is a disadvantage when living in the sticks.
My favorites are 80’s and 90’s alternative rock, new age/world music, Techno, Big Band. When we bought the new to us Saturn this fall it had XM for a week and it was great.

When I get a stereo set up in the shop I will have to look at my options but we have the worlds slowest DSL I don’t know how streaming music works but YouTube sucks.

[rusty]

Music is tiny compared to video, I used to stream music on dialup....

Interesting indea...I get bored listening to the same CD play over and over in the shop....

[1930]

Are signal boosters avail for a car radio. I am only interested in one channel and it dosent seem to broadcast very strong. I can barely get it ( with lots of static ) at my home sitting in my driveway.

[Wrenchmensch]

I listen to I Tunes Radio-Classical-Venice Radio. Venice was the seat of classical music in the 17th century, and there is still a love of the classics extant in that formerly great city.  During Christmas my wife and I ate our dinners before a fire in the living room fireplace (we are empty nesters) listening to Christmas Music played by Butch Hamilton, Dave Brubeck, George Shearing, and Oscar Peterson, all produced by Pandora.  Last night, for old times sake, I listened on internet radio to Leonard Cohen singing Suzanne.

[john k]

Never tried internet radio, but am limited on downloads on my Hughes satellite dish.  On my truck radio, occasionally  I'll listen to country, or blues, of 60s classic rock, even some 80s.  But at work the tunes are blaring all day long, sometimes pretty loud.  When I get into my own shop I don't even have a radio there.   Or in the basement woodworking shop.   I like the quiet, because of a hearing loss and dose of tinnitis, ringing in the ears  it just isn't fun anymore.   Have about 3 FM stations that I will tune in when its quiet on the highway. 

[OilyRascal]

..............am limited on downloads on my Hughes satellite dish.

I feel you - same here with satellite internet.  10gig / month is my allowance; Tooltalk traffic takes up 9gig of that :-).   However, I have this 1999 data package (on my phone) from cell company X that is unlimited ....grandfather'd in around all the now common download restrictions - locked in price structure unless we make changes.  Music, pictures, videos, etc. tend to move from that device.

[oldtools]

I like Hawaiian music & oldies but goodies rock, 60's, 70's, some 80's...

[scottg]

Are signal boosters avail for a car radio. I am only interested in one channel and it dosent seem to broadcast very strong. I can barely get it ( with lots of static ) at my home sitting in my driveway.

 Mostly its filters that have worked best for me in the past. There are filters for your alternator and filters for your distributor and filters for your filters. Get the harmless but noisy static electricity out of your system and the radio works much better.
    yours Scott
 

[1930]

Thanks, sounds like alot of work so I may just try a bigger antenna mounted further from the engine compartment

[OilyRascal]

Thanks, sounds like alot of work so I may just try a bigger antenna mounted further from the engine compartment

Its NOT always a lot of work to install.  Its been a while but I remember solving my '69 issues with ONE.  I believe most are a simple in-line condenser.  If its going in your '52 truck - I can tell you exactly where in original schematics.