This is a true fact. Once you get the hang of it, most of you will find Internet radio more appealing. Why? Mostly because of the possibilities. There are literally millions of Internet radio stations out there, and new ones are popping up every day.
I find myself falling asleep to the ambient sounds of some classical station, or laughing myself to sleep with some stand-up comedy station playing in the background most of these nights.
You can listen to these stations in your mobile phone too. And this is where I envy the hell out of the nokia phones. Because they come equipped with a mobile internet radio client, but the sad fact is that a large part of the population is not aware of this fact!
When you are on a non-Nokia Java phone, you don't have a lot of options, the application support is limited. And though you can just go search Getjar.com for 'internet radio' and it returns you a dozen results, most of them wont be useful or won't work.
I've found over the years two Java Internet Radio Applications that I'm content with.
1. VirtualRadio / VRadio
It plays really fast with little or no buffering in between. I found no breaks in playing while being on a plain GPRS connection (with no EDGE). that is fast! Don't expect much audio quality though, it's Internet Radio.
The high bandwidth stations have a decent playback quality, though they'll require a faster data connection.
download VRadio
2. RadioBee
I used to be a RadioBee user before finding VRadio. Not that there is anything wrong with it, VRadio just kind of grew on me. The channel list is somewhat limited, but RadioBee provides you with a neat settings menu (an option absent altogether in VRadio), where you can add your own stations from the internet if you know the url.
download RadioBee
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