Since AIM Radio/AOL Radio and Yahoo Launchcast don't want to work on this computer at all for me, I've taken to searching for a new thing. I tried MSN's Pandora and it doesn't work when I login, it just sits there and (if it had eyes) looks at me stupid-like.
I gave up on ever having music (unless I wanted to load a bunch on the computer from cds, which I didn't) because AIM will completely freeze up, it's ridiculous! Launchcast will completely quit working audio-wise, it keeps showing the songs it's playing, but there's no sound, and then it stops showing what songs altogether.
So finally I gave up on all of those and I really needed some music so I started searching for free internet radio (hoping I'd find something that worked!) and found Slacker. Yes, you read right, Slacker!
Slacker.Com has free internet radio and while listening to it I only experienced one error, there was possibly something wrong with a song file while I was doing dishes, but in order to get everything working again all I had to do was skip the song.
The best part about Slacker is that I am able to choose the bands that I want to hear and they play that music! Yep, they play what *I* want to hear. Launchcast throws in a bunch of nobodies and songs that I have no interest in hearing in between songs that I want to hear. And I literally have to block and skip anywhere from 3 to 10 songs before hearing something I want to hear. Then after that song is done, I have to go through it again. That's a real waste of time for me.
AIM/AOL Radio doesn't give you the option to skip, period. You can switch to another station which then takes forever to load, and then AIM freezes.
Slacker let me create my login and name the bands that I wanted to hear. The site brought up a list of bands in the same genre of the ones I entered so I could click on other bands that I wanted to hear.
The entire time I was listening to Slacker yesterday I didn't have to skip any songs, unless I wanted to. I could listen to my station that I created commercial free and without having to deal with a ton of songs I didn't want to hear.
Anyway, I think I found the new place where I'll be listening to music. For Free. Laters!
