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I am a fairly new fan of Launch Radio, which is run by Yahoo, and I finally figured out how to listen to it at work! Right now it’s playing the Massive Attack song Karmacoma. There are commercials every so often, but they’re usually not more than 30 seconds - much shorter than the commercial breaks on the radio. I prefer Launch to other internet radio stations because I can control the content much more closely. If it plays a song I don’t like, I can skip it. I customized my station to play songs I want - it even has k.d. lang on the playlist! And the best part is that it’s free. There’s a Launchcast Plus plan that takes away the ads and allows you unlimited skipping (though I have yet to run out of skips in a given session).
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You might also check out http://www.last.fm/ it has no commercials and the personalization is pretty slick, allowing you to use a defined network of friends plus automatically matching you to people who listen to similar music and using their listening habits to suggest other stuff you might like.
(Note that Last.fm has some problems with IE and Javascript sometimes, so Firefox is the way to go.)
Wow, I’ve been listening to this and configuring it for the past half hour and think it’s really promising. I’m even considering going for the payed service, but I have two concerns. One is that it only works in IE. I really want to stop using IE entirely. I like Firefox a lot better. The other thing is that you can only use this while you’re at your computer. If this was something I could take into the car with me or into the gym, etc., then I’d be totally there.
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