I would like to listen to the radio from my computer while surfing. I did find web sites pertaining to it. I just found it troublesome.
Windows popping up.
Selecting stations to listen to then nothing happening.
Connecting then closed.
Cannot play back the audio stream.No hardware is availible or hardware not responding.
I have media player and real player.
I am not sure where to begin.
Any great links? Can this be as simple as clicking a station and listening?
I did have success with two stations so I know it is possible. Most were a pain for me. What can I do? Or do different?
Thank you very much!

Their are lots of links out their for this and some websites that dedicate to streaming audio, independent streaming websites can be up and down randomly or go off the air periodically for no reason - and sometimes they only have a certain amount of streams available, then you have internet delay and such on top of that. One I have found to be fairly reliable is wber.monroe.edu out of Rochester N.Y. You may need to upgrade real player as well, and I've noticed reception always works better later on at night when internet traffic goes down.

Another thing is that, if you have a typical dial up connection like I do. The radio listening stinks. It buffers then plays, then stops and goes throught he whole process again. If you don't have a good connection, you will probably not like listening to it.....JJ

Agree with Justin... I tried listening to the various web stations using RealPlayer, and found the constant buffering--starting and stopping--annoying. The overall sound quality was also marginal. It's much easier, and more reliable, the way the technology is today, to turn on a real radio or "walkman" and listen to it while web surfing/working.

At this point in time, web radio seems better suited for those who want to listen to stations outside of their local areas.
For instance, I live in San Francisco now, but I used to live in the DC area where a local station, WAMU, plays old radio programs from the 1930s and '40s every Sunday night. Once in awhile, when I feel homesick, I call up their web site to listen to the broadcasts.

Yeah, I've got the same problems, but I just got DSL and haven't tried connecting to any radio stations yet. I'll try it again and let you know what happens.

Are you a Brit, bach?

Thanks for all of of the info. Now I know I am not nuts. The whole experience just stunk.

JJ, I have a 56K with a good connection.
Still wish DSL or Cable were in my area.

Peter, nope, I'm not brit. bach is part of my last name:)