Ever since an evil she-troll who digs song lyrics like
Tongues on the sockets of electric dreams
When the sewage of youth drown the spark of my tears
– Golden, by Fall Out Boy
took the music server away (an old PowerBook G4 1.5GHz), I have been living with the songs last synced on my iphone, and frankly, it’s getting repetitious.
It’s a good time to re-kindle the on-off love affair with net radio… and here it is, the perfect setup.
Jazz FM + Screamer = Listen Heaven
Screamer, a portable application that is designed to do nothing but stream internet radio, and one of my favorite stations, Jazz FM. Screamer has a wide range of podcasts in its inbuilt directory, and there is bound to be something that excite your ears.
WHY SCREAMER AND NOT ITUNES? Simple, Screamer takes up 12 megabytes of RAM and utilizes on average 2% of my Sony TX’s weak CPU. iTunes take up close to 60 megabytes of RAM (not counting the other services it loads), and CPU utilization hovers at about 7%. Screamer FTW.
So, while I would like to transfer all my music back to a computer near me, it’s not going to be anytime soon that an internet jazz radio station will stop playing on my computer. Give it a shot (not in the office of course), you might just like it too.
EDIT : I found that Jazz FM on certain time slots have degenerated into inserting popular pop singers like Mary J. Blige doing jazz covers. Not my cuppa tea, and in those time slots, it’s SmoothJazz.com for me.
EDIT 2 : People have asked me for the streams direct so they can subscribe to it. They are -
(All streams at 64k AAC+)
JazzFM : http://stream.jazzfm.com:8000/
SmoothJazz.com : http://smoothjazz.com/streams/smoothjazz_64.pls
