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...radio is a godsend for listeners whose tastes run too eccentric for the MTV Total Request Live navel-exposure set. Whether you hum merengue music in the shower or brush your teeth in rhythm to German techno, there's an online channel that offers what you want. Finding a station that matches your interests at a site like Sonicnet.com is like finding a date in the personal ads. All you have to do is scan the list of descriptions, and eventually you'll find the one that's approximately right for you. Globetrotter? To start, there's "African Experience...
What's even more democratic is that many of these stations are run by amateurs who have nothing better to do with their time than share their musical wisdom with the world. Even if you've never wielded a microphone, you can set up your own Live365.com channel. You can select the option to apply for a station on the site, free, and upload MP3s containing as many songs as you want. You can replace old MP3s with new ones to keep the flow of music fresh, or allow the same selections to repeat ad infinitum. Laws designed to ensure...
...owned largely by Vivendi Universal, which recently subsumed the Web radio site Nibblebox. "The cost for one person to listen to one minute of music is so high. Streaming providers charge by the megabyte, so every person you add costs money." That means the more listeners a Web radio station attracts, the higher its costs, whereas old-fashioned, "terrestrial" stations have relatively fixed costs for a license, staff and facilities, and tend to get more profitable as they acquire listeners...
Some argue that Web radio listeners, once they find a station to their taste, are thenceforth deprived of the joy of musical discovery. "On Internet radio they really try to lock in to a specific interest," says Brian Turner, a program and music director at Jersey City's fiercely independent-minded radio station WFMU. "I think some of the best discoveries you make happen when you're led down an alley by accident...
...says. "I like instructing people, but I'm also trying to bring out a good performance, so I work with them--encourage them." When Cocaine arrives, Dre plays the track. Even though Cocaine is a relative unknown ("He must not want to get his stuff on anybody's station, naming himself Cocaine," says Dre) and Dre is the top producer in the game, he is enthusiastic, even sweet, in explaining what he's looking for. When it appears Cocaine is not getting it, Dre sings the part, revealing perfect pitch and a surprisingly nice voice. Cocaine listens to him, nods...