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Originally Posted by tubemonkey
I love internet radio too. I have a Grace radio that I used to listen to all the time. But now, it rarely gets played. My go to internet radio now is the Amazon Echo. My favorite stations are Pandora and TuneIn.
Thanks for the heads up on Live365. I didn't realize that they were back in business. I'll have to check them out again.
I still have a large Radio Shack shortwave radio that I listen to. It's great not having to rely on the web. Old school OTA FM radio still rocks for me. I have numerous devices to use: my shortwave, no contract Android phones, Sansa Clips, and some small pocket radios.
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My Grace lives in the kitchen now - the Echo is in my bedroom, so I generally use that there or just play through my computer. I also have a media hub tablet (just a cheap Android with the relevant apps installed) connected to an audio distribution amp feeding a pair of compact studio monitors. Because part of the joy of being a musician is having loads of random equipment you're not actually using to make music.
The tablet and the Grace also connect to my home music server, so that's nice, too.
I really want to get a decent shortwave radio. I have one of those little ones but the tuning just isn't accurate enough and the scale is poor for really zeroing in on stuff. I sometimes use an alligator clip to hook it up to the TV antenna and I can get some stuff but it's just a battle to stay on frequency. So I want a bigger, better one, and then a more appropriate antenna for it. I managed to catch a numbers station for about a minute one time but then it was gone and I couldn't pull it in again.