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Video killed the Radio star – NOT!

June 7, 2010 at 2:57 am (Uncategorized) (Internet radio, Random)

It was not too long ago on this blog, that I had mourned the death of World Space Radio. The void left by World Space’s demise was truly felt by me, for I no longer had access to all those amazingly cool jazz numbers and old hindi songs which I could never otherwise listen to. MP3 downloads would never be the same since I wouldn’t know which ones to download and I always hated the tedium that came with putting together playlists. And so many days passed with me sulking and listening to Thievery Corporation and Wolfmother albums over and over again. Until, one day, in fact, just yesterday, I stumbled upon Internet Radio.

CHACHINNGGG!!!!

I hit jack pot I tell you. JACKPOT. So, how did it all happen. To start things off, my iclke elder brother and the recent addition to the family vamoosed off to them Arabian deserts leaving their home theatre sound system behind. That got me hooking up my macbook and my ipod touch (once again hand downs from my ickle elder brother who has rather gotten into this habit of handing me down pretty cool things) to the home theatre sound system so that I could continue listening to them Thievery Corporation and Wolfmother songs, but now in surround sound. But thus is human avarice that the small step up in my listening pleasures made me only hungry for more, and I once again found myself brooding over the loss of the radio and all the fun that came with it.

Then a couple of days ago, BSNL made an announcement that had me all excited. They decided to hand out a freebie to all of us cheapskates who had steadfastly refused to increase our bandwidth beyond 256 kbps for over several years now, and told us that they were doubling our speeds for free. At first, the true import of this didn’t not sink in to me and I wasted a few hours reveling in the fact that I could now watch a youtube video without having to identify a suitable book to read in the space of time between me actually opening the video and the browser finishing up with the buffering before I could actually WATCH the video. So, having watched a few kids and adults make fools of themselves on home videos and thinking that they become anything other than fools by uploading them on to youtube, I found myself exploring what other things I could do with the new found freedom that my increased bandwidth offered me.

Ans then it hit me like orca whale blubber of an orca whale just blown up by dynamite. I downloaded the ‘Shoutcast’ app for my ipod touch, and voila, I had internet radio at home. Needless to say, I wake up to this awesome channel ‘Martini in the Morning’. Internet Radio! Highly Recommended. Internet Radio! For all your needs!