Online radio channels

Its been a while now but good that the radio channels are back to online broadcasting. Fucking music industry in Singapore/Asia just doesn't get it. The era of lawsuits and bullying consumers is past. In this age, if you want to retain or get a big market share, make sure you give consumers what they want.

Offering good choices at reasonable prices is the correct way to go. For example, I'm perfectly happy to pay the prices commanded by iTunes store. So why isn't iTunes in Asia yet? The answer is simple, GREED. The music industry in Asia just hasn't evolved. They still think in terms of selling CDs. Its 2009. I don't buy plastic discs anymore. Give me my iTunes online account and DRM free (Yes, iTunes music is DRM free now) music anytime. Give it to me at a good price and I will pay.

Anyway, now that I've let off some steam, here are a few goodies. Online Singapore radio is back after a 9 month exodus because of fucking the music industry's obsession for taxing poor consumers (what else?). These links are good for those using smartphones without hardware FM receivers, and have a suitable data plan to go with it. Most streaming players should be able to play these streams without any problem, especially WM based phones (Just open URL in Windows Media Player).

http://www.mediacorpradio.sg/mediaplayer/asx/938live/fm938TO.asx
http://www.mediacorpradio.sg/mediaplayer/asx/987fm/fm987.asx
http://www.mediacorpradio.sg/mediaplayer/asx/yes933/fm933.asx

As you can see, the streams have fairly predictable URLs, which can be confirmed by inspecting the source codes of the pages. :-) hee hee.