I’ve been lurking/monitoring here for about the last 6 weeks and thought that I should officially say Hello.
I have a question that I’m sure some people here would have more knowledge of than I do. I have been listening to the audio stream for traditional and folk Irish music at liveireland.com on Windows media player at work. I was wondering if anyone knew of some other streams that were worth listening to. Without spending a lot of money on CDs this is pretty much my solution to poor radio reception at work, plus it (hopefully)gives me a much larger selection of stations to listen to.
I have a free program from Roemer Software called Free Hi-Q Recorder that can record anything you can stream on to your hard-drive. You can then burn it on to a CD, etc, so that you can listen in your car or whenever. Admittedly the free version doesn’t give incredible sound-quality but neither does the original stream usually.
There’s also TG4, with quite a bit of trad tv programmes which is great if your computer/connection can manage streaming video: http://www.tg4.ie/Bearla/Webt/webt.htm
Welcome T-Reds! I like LiveIreland too but after a while, you have heard all the shows until they record some news ones, so its good to check out the other links given above.
Because of LiveIreland, I went out and bought CDs of tunes I heard there and it really expanded my appreciation of the music. All in all, it’s a good thing…
