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There are some pretty good sites online where you can find music to listen to that you not only will love, but that you don’t have to pay for. Sure, by not paying for it, you don’t get to control what you’re listening to, but isn’t that half the fun of radio to begin with? Truthfully, some sites died out with the inception of copyright laws that started charging royalties to online radio stations, but some have survived, and here’s some of the best.

My favorite site, believe it or not, is Beethoven.com, a site I discovered accidentally four years ago while out of town. I love classical music, being a music and history major, and of course Beethoven is one of my favorite composers. But this site isn’t only about Beethoven, though they highlight some of his major pieces on a regular basis, which is always great, but it’s classical music of all types. Its model has changed somewhat, since it’s based in Connecticut, so how they have advertising within the local market. And they do have an area where you can become a member, although, truthfully, I couldn’t begin to tell you why you’d register other than you then get a digital music feed rather than its regular feed, which, I have to say, sounds pretty good to me.

The next site I want to highlight plays smooth jazz, which is my wife’s favorite genre of music, and it’s got the odd nome de plume of Surf Music. It’s based out of Germany, which may explain the difference in translation, but the music is supreme, and once again, it’s free.

Of course, if you want to go to one source for multiple music choices, there are two that will whet your fancy, though the business models are slightly different. The website most people will know about is Live 365, which has as its business model the opportunity to purchase any of the songs you’re listening to from its many genres. In my opinion, the sound could be better, but having multiple choices could be worse. The other site is less well known, but it deserves some respect, that being 1 FM, which gives you the opportunity to select different bandwidth speeds based on which player you wish to use, and one of those choices is through your own Windows Media Player, which suits me just fine. I selected the highest bandwidth, since I’m on Turbo Road Runner (super high speed), and listened to disco, one of my favorite genres of music, and it was absolutely wonderful. There aren’t as many musical choices, and you do have advertisements showing in your player while listening to the music, and of course you also still have the option of purchasing the songs, but you see a playlist of songs coming up, and I like that because it gives you the option of deciding if you want to stay and listen to all those songs or go elsewhere for something more up your alley.

So, free music online is still alive, and it’s thriving. I hope you enjoy these sites.

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