You should check out iRATE radio <http://irate.sourceforge.net/>. It has 
a cool format where you rate songs and it trys to download other songs 
that it things you will like. It pulls from artists that use creative 
commons licenses and other similarly licensed music.


Victor Odhner wrote:

> OK, so we know most of the sheeple will buy into whatever media 
> products get the most hype.
>
> This evening I set up friend with a Linux distro, but it probably 
> won't do him much good.  I have been looking at online radio stations 
> (I don't listen online myself, too busy working if I'm at the 
> computer), and whatever media are offered, my media players won't 
> play.  But I'm sure I'm missing something, right?  Some of these are 
> called MP3 or RealPlayer, and I have these, and yet they won't play.
>
> My friend's PC has Windows XP but XP won't support his old sound 
> card.  Linux will, but it can't support the radio stations he's been 
> using via Windows Media Player.  I'm not a big multimedia fan, but 
> again I would be interested in any pointers I could pass on to him.
>
> I understand there are online sources of music from artists who 
> understand fair use.  I have never explored online music very much, 
> but would be interested right now if someone could once again post a 
> list of starting points for Linux-friendly media.
>
> Thanks,
> Vic
>
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