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Audio
Over 1000+ .mp3 audio streams that you can sort by location, sound quality, ethnicity, etc., and you only need winamp (the best mp3 player for over a decade now, but only when configured correctly) or another mp3 player to stream these stations. It may take awhile to find some you like because there are so many, but it is worth the effort just to find those few you prefer and bookmark them for instant future reference.
Good for daily news, or to look through their archive of interviews, news stories, and musicians/concerts. NPR of course for news and interviews, present and past, and then the other two are updated with a hour-long mp3 stream every sunday, so it's a good two hours to hear a story and hear some new music releases. Worth a small donation once a year. I have always like radio over television, leaves more for the mind to work with...
About 20 .mp3 streams, mostly ambient-themed Whether to sleep by (like drone zone channel) or to work by, this is a good online station with good mixes in each eclectic channel. Even worth a donation just to listen to their no commercial nonstop music.
Perhaps the most popular of the online radios for now.
One of the countless websites which index and make it easy to find a radio station around the world that's streaming their music.
A single .mp3 stream, but the best to sleep or relax by, very ambient music and sounds. I sleep to them alot, if you have a surround sound system just leave this on all the time and float through your day. Again, if you listen frequently then it's worth giving them a donation.
Good selection of artists and the music plays thru the webpages once you find a station to listen to, but perhaps only worth wandering through for a month or two before it gets old. Another good suggestion would be to try ye' olde' NAPSTER.
You select styles of music and a type of 'emotion' and it will play music based on that choice, plus it visually and interactively shows you other artists connected to the artist you're listening to. An interesting concept to play with once or twice.
They have 100+ stations playing online for $3 a month, I only listen to talk radio shows on the 'the virus' channel with opie & anthony and ron & fez, which is too crude for most people, but there's enough channels for the price, you just login and listen from any computer from a webpage. They do have too many repetitive commercials, something they once bragged about not having at all, but that's what happens when a company begins losing money. |
Video
Over 1000+ movies, shows, and videos to search thru. Worth going through once just to get a feel of what they offer.
100s of intense, inspirational short videos of experts giving short talks in any type of science, including the mind, the spirit, and emotions as well as space, matter, and all things we know as humans thus far in our unfolding. The videos are from an annual event where some leaders in various fields come together to talk about what motivates and excites them in their careers and lives. Worth looking thru all the categories and short enough to comprehend each video, if you don't shed a tear in sheer amazement at some of these talks and their concepts, then you are a rock and I salute you.
UPDATED: someone was nice to create an index of all the videos on one page HERE so you can quickly scan through the subjects and watch ones you want, a very handy list.
This is a take-off from ted.com, as they have short videos from experts in various fields, talking about certain subjects. Another one good for searching or for just wandering through instead of watching tv one night.
Known for being the best source as a entertainment encyclopedia, but they also feature oler movies, 100+ tv series, and lots of other videos watchable online in their complete form, with nothing to install. Best if you want to relive some old sitcom or series you watched on tv.
The biggest archive of all types of media online; interviews, music, videos, shows, movies, art, books, and more going back to the 1800s. Much of it is just public domain or no more copyright, a great index to wander thru their million+ items or do searches to find specific items. They even index all websites every month for over a decade now, so you can actually see any website going back in time to 1996, now THATS archiving.
I have some HD videos and older SD videos of mine here instead of youtube, since it supports higher quality videos and less clutter.
Nothing much of interest of my own videos, but I have an index dozens which humor or interest me. A good international news site, with lots of daily news videos and archives. They have a satellite tv channel as well which plays alot of world documentaries. Good to see life outside our own concepts around us in america.
A live nasa video stream, watch the shuttle live when the shuttle is up, and sometimes the space station live. This link will load in your media player since its a live video and not webpage. or you just go to NASAs site and go to their video section to watch various live videos online from space.
Yahoos index of 1080 hi-def movie trailers, to get a better feel for a movie instead of watching a lesser quality 480 one on tv. They load in the program 'quicktime' and since theyre big they will buffer(pause) alot while loading. Hopefully they'll offer another format instead of only quicktime. I just pause a trailer from playing when quicktime first opens it, so that it can buffer(load) the entire video for 2 minutes, then I play it so it plays without stopping since then its already loaded(buffered). So by now you should know that 'buffer' means 'to load' something, eh? If online media items did not 'buffer' then it would pause every few seconds.
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