Listen to the radio on your PC

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Even though the radio is quite old as a device, listening to the radio is still fun. You can listen to your favorite music, whether divided into genres or mixed in a colorful way. You can hear the news, follow traffic jam reports and much more. But nowadays you are no longer dependent on a classic radio with an antenna, but can also listen to the radio on your home PC.

You don't necessarily need a radio.
You don't necessarily need a radio.

Listening to the radio on the PC - how does it work?

  • Listening to the radio on the PC offers many new possibilities, such as an incredibly large and precise selection of stations.
  • The large, but also the small German radio stations are almost all with a homepage and associated live stream Internet represent. For the German radio stations, it is now practically good form to be present on the Internet. Therefore, it is sufficient to open the homepage of the respective station to listen to the radio there. This works via a player that is integrated on the homepage. A click on the play button is usually enough to follow what is happening on the radio.
  • In order to get to the homepage of the sender, the name of the sender can simply be entered in "Google"must be entered. The first entry on "Google" should almost always be the right one.

Internet radio for every musical taste

  • But there are also websites that specialize in grouping several radio stations together and offering them for listening. The favorite station can then be searched for in a genre-specific manner. The big advantage is that there is a station for almost every musical taste. It is sufficient to select the desired radio station, nothing more is necessary here.
  • One site that offers such a service is e.g. B. "shoutcast.com". However, there are countless other providers.
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  • This service, as it is offered on such websites, is also available as a download in the form of various programs. One advantage here is, for example, the ability to save favorite channels and create playlists. Radio broadcasts can then also be recorded through so-called add-ons (additional programs).
  • The downside is that you have to download and install a program. An example of a free program of this type is "Winamp".
  • Football fans can also listen to a live stream of the match on the current match day on the homepage of the respective club. The system corresponds to that of the already mentioned (German) radio stations.

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