Currently everything or almost everything happens on the internet. Thanks to the internet we can listen to any song we want, watch the latest episode of our favorite series or the latest movie premieres. We can also access the traditional press, magazines and even to the radio of a lifetime.
With the arrival of music streaming services, the radios saw how their base business was gradually crumbling. People want to listen to their favorite songs, without ads and without a presenter having to do the Paris before putting it on.
One of the advantages of the internet, related to radio, is that it allows us to listen to our favorite stations from our computer, without having to use our lifelong radios, radios that seem like only they catch The 40 or Radio 3.
Also, for those who are lucky or unfortunate enough to live abroad or spend long periods of time, it is a good way to keep up to date with the news from their country without having to turn to satellite television.
The fastest way to access our favorite stations is directly through their website. But there is life beyond the stations of a lifetime. Thanks to the internet, we can find stations from other regions or countries that fit our tastes, needs or preferences.
The first smartphones that were launched on the market, integrated an FM chip, a chip that allowed listening to traditional radio (they used headphones as an antenna). Unfortunately, it seems that manufacturers are less and less betting on this function despite being very useful when natural disasters occur and the main communication channels have stopped working.
Radio Garden
Radio Garden is one of the most popular and comprehensive web services for listening to radio stations from around the world. If our browser allows web pages to access our location, it will show us the closest stations to our position, which although it may seem silly, it is not.
Depending on our location, it will suggest the closest localities where stations are available, but also search by provinces and in other countries. If the station we are looking for is not available, we can fill out a form to be included in this service.
If we know the name of the station we want to listen to, we can enter it to go directly to the station. If this is not the case, and we want to listen to, for example, any station in Venezuela, we can move across the globe to the country and click on the different green dots that represent the country's radio stations.
Radio Garden is also available in the form of application for both iOS and Android, an application that we can download for free through the following links.
TuneIn
TuneIn is another of the most popular services for listen to internet radio from any country. It allows us to access more than 100.000 radio stations around the world with advertisements, although we can pay a monthly fee to avoid the advertisements and, incidentally, be able to enjoy NFL, MLB, NBA and NHL games.
It has a large number of Spanish-language stations, both in Spain and Latin America, although its main audience is in the United States, from where we can listen to a large number of stations throughout the country. We can also listen to the same podcast that we can find on any other platform.
It is compatible with both Amazon Echo such as Google Home from Google in addition to being available on manufacturers' speakers Sonos. It is also available for both iOS and Android, applications that you can download for free through the following links.
RadioFy
If you are looking for an stations that are in Spain, RadioFy is the service you are looking for. RadioFy offers us a very simple interface where we have to write the name of the station we want to listen to or scroll through the page until we find the station we want to listen to, where the most popular ones are shown.
radiowebsites
radiowebsites It shows us an index of the countries where we can listen to radio stations, so it is an excellent option to consider if you are looking for stations from specific countries. By clicking on each country, we access a country website from where we can access the stations available in that specific country.
myTurner
myTurner is another of the web pages that allows us access radio stations from practically every country in the world. As soon as you access your website, the radio stations of the country where we are will be displayed. On the left, we can select if we want to show only the stations in our community or region.
If you like podcasts, on myTurner, too you will find a wide variety, practically the same that we can find in any other podcast platform. It is also available for mobile devices in the form of an application, so if we do not have a computer at hand, we can use our smartphone or tablet.
Internet Radio
But if what we want is to listen to other stations, discover new songs, listen to other genres of music, none of the above serve us (relatively) as Internet Radio does. Through Internet Radio We can listen to radio stations according to the type of music they broadcast, not by the name of the station or by its location.
As soon as you access the web, the most popular genres are displayed. By clicking on these genres, they will be shown all stations that offer that type of genreWhether polka, funk, soul, Tejano, anime, romantic, chill, trance, ambient, dance, jazz, blues, classic rock, country, metal, salsa, hip hop ...
As we can see the options to find new songs that Internet Radio offers us, we will not find them in the traditional stations of any country. If we find a station that we like, we can download the .m3u list to reproduce it in any compatible application without having to use the website.
Alternatives
The Internet is full of services that allow us to listen to our favorite stations. If within the different options that I have shown you in this article, you cannot find the station you are looking for, it probably does not exist. Look no further, as these services are the most comprehensive available.