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Favorite Shoutcast Streams

May 2, 2003

For me, getting things done often requires proper musical support… While my local collection is fairly extensive, occasionally I get tired of listening to what I’ve been listening to, and don’t feel like taking the time to build a new playlist… When that happens, it’s time to turn to a decent Shoutcast stream… Here are my recent favorites:

SomaFM: Listener Supported, Commercial Free Internet Radio - six different streams, each in three rates.  Groove Salad, Secret Agent, Drone Zone, indiepop rocks, cliqhop idm and Beat Blender.

My favorite band, Alabama3 (known as A3 in the US, aka “that Soprono’s theme song band”) has a great new site up.  As well as some kick-ass flash work and a generous sample of free MP3s, the site features a Live365 stream chock full of old and new album stuff, some excellent remixes, and the occasional piece of old school country.  If you’re not familiar with Alabama3, expect smokey, whiskey-soaked vocals, gospel & blues influences, all done up as cutting edge house music.  They call it “Acid House Country”, but it rather defies description—you’ve got to experience it. If you enjoy A3, you may also want to check out FreeA3.com , the Unofficial Alabama 3 Website…

If you enjoy Shoutcast streams, you might also want to check out StreamRipper, a tool to capture (and in many cases split out component songs) from Shoutcast streams. Since a rather nasty cease and desist action, StreamRipper does not support Live365 streams in its released configuration.

Gotta love Open Source software…

Do you have a favorite Shoutcast stream or tool?  You’re welcome to leave a comment (or trackback) and share it…

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Written by User ImageChuck Lawson · Filed Under Media 
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2 Responses to “Favorite Shoutcast Streams”

  1. Frank on May 3rd, 2003 1:41 pm

    Hi Chuck.

    Visited the SomaFM sight.  It appears there are some really great litening choices.  I downloaded winamp, but can’t get it to work. 

    Hey thanks for the link to A3!  I didn’t know which band was featured on the Soprano’s theme.

    Radio 365 plug-in works however.  I don’t know what the deal is with winamp.

  2. harryllee on May 3rd, 2003 7:09 pm

    Bill goldsmith does a great job over at Radio Paradise in the adult eclectic genre. bill also has created a very nice little web community. it’s the best station I’ve heard since wgrg. I also still run very low maintenance streams at jonesnose: http://shoutcast.jonesnose.com:8320 is the 320kbps stream. http://shoutcast.jonesnose.com:8128 is the 128kbps stream. I don’t do near the job bill does, but I’m working on improving the responsiveness of the system to its listener base in the background.

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