do you kno good radio stations links for jungle/dnb , rap, techno,punk/oi , etc ...

whats your software for listening radio on the net ?

 

I listen with foobar2000 v1.6.6 (has WASAPI pull output), any radio software can not match its audio quality. You must have the URL location for that.
For jazz, blues, classical rock, etc. the best I could find so far is:
http://us2.internet-radio.com:8443
Stream Website: www.megatoncaferadio.com
- THE BEST MUSIC FROM THE 1920s to 1950s
- OLD TIME RADIO COMMERCIALS
- ORIGINAL VINYL RECORDINGS
- 40s & 50s CIVIL DEFENSE PSA
- SEASONAL SPECIAL EVENTS

 

https://flexfm.co.uk
London-based undeground station. Their DJs 'Mutley', 'Sebadee' & 'Twiz' are predominately jungle-dnb, there's probably others too, dunno. Check out their podcasts:
https://flexfm.co.uk/podcast/mutley/
https://flexfm.co.uk/podcast/sebadee/
https://flexfm.co.uk/podcast/twiz/

 

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I don't use a specific radio station but this one https://streamwriter.org/en/
A filter option I love to use is Kbps = 320.

 

From experience and some testing, I can tell that no matter what the nominal bitrate the stream is, most of the files the stations possess and use to stream are in 96-192 kbps range. Very rarely you can bump into a 320 kbps file streamed at 320 kbps (I met even 64 kbps). And many of those nominally 320 kbps files are just in fact re-encoded (fake) lower bit rate files.
They are also additionally compressed on the fly in order to keep the perceived loudness of the broadcast even. I doubt it is a good idea to record radio stations live streams, it is much better to find the file on some server and download it.

 

Oops, that was a bit surprising, so I just made some test recordings of my fav streams myself.
One station was limited to ~ 18kHz, all other streams went up to ~ 20kHz.

Maybe I was just lucky and you not?

Spoiler: From https://thesession.org/discussions/19642

bit rate cut-off frequency compression
1411kbps >20kHz 1:1
320kbps 19.5kHz 1:4.4
192kbps 18kHz 1:7.3
160kbps 17kHz 1:8.8
128kbps 16kHz 1:11
96kbps 15kHz 1:14.7
64kbps 11kHz 1:22
32kbps 5kHz 1:44

 

Finding a good radio station is mission impossible: I can't help you. I guess it is easier to find a bizarre and non-globalized radio station
I use this website https://radio.garden/ the GUI is practical: it works like google earth.
I love to listen japanese radio drama, iranian music chart or uzbekistan news

 

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Well, if you measured DC offsets (terrible), stereo offsets, disturbed panning (channel disbalance), stereo de-correlation, number of tiny (and some more pronounced) stream interrupts and took into account that in most cases that quoted frequency cutoffs happen on pure noise. And if you add to the list the highs pre-emphasis (mostly @7-12.5 kHz, +6dB on average) some stations use to render 'sound better'... [and forgot to say brutally clipped] you might get a different picture.

 

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bump

 

is this really all ?

 

Hello Howard, i still have 3 radio stations. (I hope without ads)

www.webradio.de/rock-antenne/punkrock
www.fsk-hh.org
www.undergroundradiodirectory.com

 

Ok, I try to learn and made these measurement too and could not verify any of it. DC offsets with one minor exception at 0,00x%, no phase issues, no stereo offset, no emphasizing of high freqs. Even dropouts are very rare.
I've once recorded hundreds of tracks from a station and am up to now not aware of a single dropout.

 

my neighbour had app10 years ago , it had a shitload of genres and this 'stations' where only play 1 genre ever , you also could see how much ppl listening at this moment

 

some Africans here knowing of afro beat and 'funk stations ?

 

I downloaded the first file that appeared, with your recommended software [StreamWriter 5.5.1.0]
You can find much greater figures at times, but this is a first-hand illustration of what I was saying:

 

And here is what you might get from a nominal 320 kbps station (a 128 kbps actual file):
And just one more, really incredible example:

 

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https://www.di.fm/ - Sign up for unlimited free listening
https://laut.fm/genres
https://laut.fm/bluffphonica

I`m interested in tips for good Classical Music Radio Stations too...

 

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Among my favs are these https://www.rm.fm/klassik and calmradio.com chorale. For the latter you need to log in or use a streaming tool.

 

Here are links to 13 radio stations for classical music. They are given in foobar2000 fpl playlist format, but you can open them in foobar and convert them into other playlist formats, or just copy and paste the links wherever you want.
https://www93.zippyshare.com/v/Grppv5mX/file.html

For Klassik rm fm the URL is:
https://klassik-high.rautemusik.fm/stream.mp3?ref=rm5beta
so you can listen to it with any audio player that supports audio streams.

 

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