Canadian online radio

1fastdoc · 06-23-2014, 06:45 PM

In Canada for a few more days and I'm dying here. While technically on vacation I'm spending a few hours on the laptop working and I usually have Pandora on in the background.

Well apparently Canada doesn't allow Pandora or Spotify.

Currently playing last.fm but when I put in a station they play stuff very loosely similar and usually the stuff I don't like. It also stops streaming a lot since it's also playing the video and needs to dl more data.

Canadians? Recommendations?

Taskmaster · 06-23-2014, 07:24 PM

Youtube it, or just download songs to the phone directly.

Taskmaster · 06-23-2014, 07:25 PM

And they drink milk from bags. Weird, and kinda gross.

1fastdoc · 06-23-2014, 07:44 PM

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Originally Posted by TheAxiom

Youtube it, or just download songs to the phone directly.

Can't dl to the phone, don't have global data.

I actually have my headphones plugged into the laptop.

Youtube is doable but it doesn't offer the same service I can get from Pandora.

Taskmaster · 06-23-2014, 07:57 PM

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Originally Posted by 1fastdoc

Can't dl to the phone, don't have global data.

I actually have my headphones plugged into the laptop.

Youtube is doable but it doesn't offer the same service I can get from Pandora.

That's true, just throwing out suggestions. What about "I heart Radio?"

NEFARIOUS · 06-23-2014, 09:49 PM

Try this:
http://www.howtogeek.com/107650/list...using-a-proxy/

Joekerr · 06-23-2014, 10:52 PM

If you have Sirius / xm, in the states, can't you sign up your mobile / computer?

If you don't have a subscription, then you are screwed, radio here generally sucks. I have satellite, and for the car that doesn't, I get a bunch of dl songs from my buddy every time I see him and just burn a few CDs (car doesn't have USB

).

Best wishes...hope you are not a dentist, heard they are driven to kill themselves and the radio selections up here might just be the tipping point for you if you are a dentist...

NEFARIOUS · 06-23-2014, 11:47 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Joekerr

If you have Sirius / xm, in the states, can't you sign up your mobile / computer?

If you don't have a subscription, then you are screwed, radio here generally sucks. I have satellite, and for the car that doesn't, I get a bunch of dl songs from my buddy every time I see him and just burn a few CDs (car doesn't have USB

).

Best wishes...hope you are not a dentist, heard they are driven to kill themselves and the radio selections up here might just be the tipping point for you if you are a dentist...

SXM online is usually an extra charge, but to also answer OP: There are good internet radio stations as well, like SKY.FM for general purpose, Rockradio.com for rock and DI.FM if EDM is your thing.

1fastdoc · 06-24-2014, 12:13 AM

thanks for the suggestions.

I know there are ways around the local IP issues using a VPN but I'm already on a VPN to my office. Unfortunately it's into my EMR, not to a desktop where I can access a browser.

Sucks that you guys don't have Pandora and Spotify. They are great services.

Nkc · 06-24-2014, 12:36 AM

www.thebeat.com

1fastdoc · 06-24-2014, 12:37 AM

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Originally Posted by NEFARIOUS

Try this:
http://www.howtogeek.com/107650/list...using-a-proxy/

This didn't work. It went to Pandora with the https connection but Pandora still searched and recognized the IP as Canadian.

NEFARIOUS · 06-24-2014, 01:15 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by 1fastdoc

This didn't work. It went to Pandora with the https connection but Pandora still searched and recognized the IP as Canadian.

I see... Then again it worked in 2011 when I worked somewhere with a Canadian VPN, so I don't know what to tell you in 2014

Billup · 06-24-2014, 07:22 AM

Damn Canadians. At least you can get some poutine while you're there.

MrRoboto · 06-24-2014, 10:29 AM

http://tunein.com.

P1 · 06-24-2014, 10:39 AM

Just listen to the radio via iTunes.

MrRoboto · 06-24-2014, 11:30 AM

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Originally Posted by P1et

Just listen to the radio via iTunes.

No iTunes Radio in Canada…yet. Suppose to have been launched early 2014.

Joekerr · 06-24-2014, 12:57 PM

You can listen to the Edge 102.1 online, but honestly, it drives me crazy with all the talking...more music, less talking. But typically that's what I'll listen to if I'm forced to listen to a radio station.

upstatedoc · 06-24-2014, 01:53 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by 1fastdoc

Well apparently Canada doesn't allow Pandora or Spotify.

Quote:

Originally Posted by Joekerr

radio here generally sucks.

This explains why Rush wasn't inducted into the RRHF till last year.

1fastdoc · 06-24-2014, 03:45 PM

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Originally Posted by MrRoboto

http://tunein.com.

Thanks, so far that one works pretty well.

Another part of the issue is the lack of cable on the outskirts of Calgary and the satellite isn't very forgiving with large packets of data.

The one I was listening to yesterday kept stopping.

MrRoboto · 06-25-2014, 06:49 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by 1fastdoc

Thanks, so far that one works pretty well.

Another part of the issue is the lack of cable on the outskirts of Calgary and the satellite isn't very forgiving with large packets of data.

The one I was listening to yesterday kept stopping.

Try increasing the buffer settings.

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