bitflipper
Finding new music that I like is such a rare occurrence that when it happens it's like Christmas morning when I was 8 years old.
 
But my real passion is finding old music that I either didn't know about or didn't pay attention to when it was current. 

Yep, exactly that! 
 
What's even better about finding old music I like is that, in almost all cases, the artist already has several albums out (in a few cases dozens) so you don't have to wait a couple of years to hear more from them!
 
Over the last few years I can't even begin to tally all of the new artists I've been exposed to including entire top-level genres (like "Progressive") that I really only knew the tip of the iceberg about.  From what I can surmise, the music stations available to me when I was young (in San Diego, California) only played certain small slices of specific sub-genres and I found I was primarily attracted to bands that featured humbucker guitars.  That left a bunch of really good bands that used single-coils for me to experience at an older age (including Jimi and Pink Floyd, etc.).
 
It's not like I ignored 80% of the bands back then that I listen to now, but I had never even heard of the artists!  Yes, I am having a LOT of fun lately. 

There are very few things on the internet that I would miss. I can count them
on one hand and YouTube and many others talked about here aren't them.
 
Being able to get materials that aren't locally available is the only function I would really miss if
the internet vanished.
 
 
 
 
 

bitflipper
Finding new music that I like is such a rare occurrence that when it happens it's like Christmas morning when I was 8 years old.
 
But my real passion is finding old music that I either didn't know about or didn't pay attention to when it was current. Such gems can be purchased on CD for $4 to $10, so even though I primarily listen on a portable MP3 player I also have a hard-copy backup in a shoebox if I ever need it. I don't usually buy MP3s and I will never store my purchases "in the cloud", thank you very much. Having a CD also means I can rip a high-quality version of a song to use as a mix reference.
 
I really wanted Pandora Radio to be a resource, but it doesn't work well for me. Not enough indie music there, too much emphasis on "hit songs", and the association algorithm is often laughably bad. Same for YouTube, come to think of it.
 
I've actually gotten more referrals from Coffee House posts than any other source. Maybe it's just because all you old geezers have similar tastes to my own. Maybe it's time for another "list your favorite bands nobody knows about" thread.

You might like Wolfgang's Vault. It is all live music, heavy on the San Francisco Fillmore, Winterland, and other venues. I like it.
 
As far as Spotify Radio. Once you start a station based on a song or artist and it begins to play songs, you can "like or "not like" the songs and tailor the station to more of what you want. Though I sometimes wonder how what they choose to play is even remotely related to that you originally based the station on.
 
J

http://www.internet-radio.com/
 
Might want to look at some, especially if they are free.
http://www.iheart.com/
 
http://www.iheart.com/find/country/US/
 
might want to look around.
 

http://www.internet-radio.com/
 
Might want to look at some, especially if they are free.
http://www.iheart.com/
http://www.iheart.com/find/country/US/
 
might want to look around.
I am not too familiar with it though.
 

I'm pretty happy I stayed out of this thread and let you guys do all the talking ...
I might learn something after all 
 
thanks guys , 
 
Kenny

Wolfgang's Vault is this: http://www.concertvault.com/
 
Maybe they changed the name...
 
J

Most audio in music is only streamed at 128 bits anyway.
 

spacealf
Most audio in music is only streamed at 128 bits anyway.
 

Really?  I thought it was at 32 bytes... 
 
(Or was it 64 nibbles?  )

128 kibbles a wiggle. If you do not have an old dynamic powered jukebox speaker then you just ain't listening to it right, but you can wiggle to the music anyway.
 
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jukebox