Shoutcast has been around for awhile and it’s a great service. They are basically a listing of free internet radio streams. Shoutcast doesn’t provide the music, they just list the services that do.
When you go to their website it defaults by listing the top stations, but you can also search for particular genre or a specific station. They have by far the largest list of streams I’ve seen on the net, and it’s quick and easy to find and listen to a stream without having to register or pay a fee.
To play Shoutcast you can use any of a host of different players out there, but for Windows and Linux I’d suggest the following:
Linux:
- xmms
- songbird
- kaffeine
Windows:
- songbird
- winamp
- Anything but Windows Media Player (It really seems to suck for streams)
