online music

[graeme uk]

Does anyone know of any sites where you can listen to samples of music?
I need to find more artists and styles, i am open to almost anything, but how do you find new stuff you like?
I say new, it could have been recorded 100's of years ago for all i care.
All my friends have quite narrow music tastes, theres never anything good on the radio/tv, so how do you find new stuff to listen too?

 

[phn]

The ones I know: ebay.com, allmusic.com. The latter might need registration.

 

[jackinnj]

for classical www.amazon.com usually has snippets of the recordings that they sell.

for operatic materials the Metropolitan Opera (www.metopera.org) has an enormous archive on their website -- from the earliest days of recording.

 

[graeme uk]

excellent, keep em coming.

Ill just add, i have no intention of downloading, legal or otherwise, just want to find new (to me) music.
Thanx

 

[phn]

Doh! ebay.com!? What's there to listen to?

Amazon's great. Though I haven't used it myself, I believe allmusic is just as good. Should give you access to more music than you can shake an uzi at, in 30-60 second samples.

 

[infinia]

Hi
I like to use steaming audio from online radio stations. Can search archives but bit rate is not as good as a live stream. Video can be had as well esp on KCRW.com "morning becomes eclectic" show. If I like it, I record using loopback on PC souncard, edit then, burn to CD.
Not really sure if your taste is close to me but...

http://www.kcrwmusic.com/

http://www.kexp.org/home.asp?noflash=false

http://www.wfmu.org/audiostream.shtml

the last I recorded was Calexico and Gram Rabbit

 

[okmrbh]

I like to listen to cbc radio 3
It's one of the three Canadian Broadcasting Corporation on line radio stations.
You can listen in radio mode or create your own playlist or listen to others

I have what I think is a pretty good playlist right now mostly a alternative rock, country selection, but I change it from time to time.

Here is the site

http://radio3.cbc.ca/

You will be in radio mode when you start off, To listen to a playlist click on user playlists
and you'll see some there or you can enter okmrbh in the search box and listen to mine.

* Be sure to set the quality @ 128k
Enjoy!

 

[FastEddy]

" ... Be sure to set the quality @ 128k ..."

Good idea. You might also just get a feel for other internet radio feeds that are built into iTunes = the free download. About half of these are 96K or better, about 20% are 128K or better.



I'm listening to classical internat radio (one of about a dozen = 96K or better), but they are playing @ 44.1K (CD quality), so I'll probably switch as sooin as Ludvic Von finishes up ...

 

[BWRX]

You might also just get a feel for other internet radio feeds that are built into iTunes

I'll second that one. SKY.FM classical and flamenco guitar is one of my favorites. Some of the stations play the same stuff too frequently though. Plus some have ads you have to sit and wait through unless you pony up the dough for a "commercial free listening experience."

 

[okmrbh]

A few more good ones:

http://www.radioparadise.com/

http://www.rinfm.com/

http://www.radioio.com/

http://somafm.com/

This guy's site has a huge list of mostly commercial stations
http://www.mikesradioworld.com/

 

[radtech]

Similar to Amazon is http://cduniverse.com/

Also Myspace is good for finding new music, lots of indie as well as commercial artists.

 

[kstylianos]

www.pandora.com

Enter an artist/song you like and Pandora will find/play/reccommend similar artists/songs.

 

[dangus]

Check out Archive.org
There's all kinds of music there, quite a bit of it lossless.

 

[jackinnj]

WQXR www.wqxr.com and WNYC www.wnyc.org in New York are both online with high data rate transfers. Most Saturdays 'QXR has live broadcasts of the Metropolitan Opera. If you like oldies, WMTR AM is like stepping back into the 1960's (www.wmtram.com) If you like real oldies -- recordings from the 20's and 30's www.wfuv.org has "The Big Broadcast" on Sunday evenings -- one of the oldest running radio shows in the U.S.

 

[9anda1f]

www.pandora.com

This site IS very cool, kstylianos...I've used it over and over to find and preview new music.

9anda1f

 

[2skys1imit3]

amazon.com for smaller clips

pandora.com is pretty good but last time i used it, after a few songs, you have to wait or re-visit the site in order to pick the songs you want (there's some sort of feature that pre-selects "songs for you" based on listening history)

i'd recommend using MySpace for previewing songs just because of the sheer ease of it for most popular artists

 

[kstagger]

Accuradio has a BIG selection of different styles (Classical/Jazz/etc etc) that you can choose - you can also change the shuffle so certain groups/artist will not be played.
http://www.accuradio.com/

for my 80s punk/new-wave fix (stuff that wasn't played on the radio)
http://www.radionigel.com/

Subpop has lots of full MP3 samples
http://www.subpop.com/

 

[cjv998]

I'll vouch for Pandora as well. VERY cool. You make a list of songs you like, and it plays songs that are musically similar to those.

 

[FastEddy]

" ... for my 80s punk/new-wave fix (stuff that wasn't played on the radio) http://www.radionigel.com/ ..."

Likewise = I'm 60+ years old so I missed the really good punk stuff ... ... and its not all just old punk on the nigel ... they play requests (eventually) so send 'em your list.