Altrok Radio: New And Classic Songs Update #101

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Folks,

Firstly, the important stuff:

Altrok Radio is at http://www.altrokradio.com

Please remember to tune in whenever you can - every hour you listen turns into more visibility for the station; we show up higher in search listings, and such like that. And if you'd like to help us keep the stream running, check out the advertisers if they appeal to you; your interest actually helps fund us.

Of course, you can't help us if you find that listening is either annoying or difficult, and there are lots of ways you can smooth that process out. Here's a few:

1. Use an MP3 player to listen. Live365, our provider, starts off with a web-based player that uses Windows Media to play the station. Unfortunately, that creates two problems: the station's being translated from its native MP3 format, which deteriorates the sound quality, and the player window itself may open other ad windows that degrade your system's performance.

Thankfully, they provide an option to use your own MP3 player. You can make this change by logging into the Live365 website, then choosing "My Live365" and clicking "listen Settings" - under "MP3 Player", choose the option that enables your own default MP3 player.

Then, when you start the station, just close all the other web-based windows. (If you like having the songs display, you can go to http://www.altrok.com/streams.shtml to see what's playing.)

2. Once you've done that, you might consider using Jet Audio (www.jetaudio.com) to listen. It comes with MP3Pro decoding, meaning you get to listen in full CD quality.

Now that you've done all that, you might want to know what you're listening to....

Here's our Newly-Added Classics:

- Eels - Novocaine For The Soul
- Foxx, John - Endlessly
- Gene Loves Jezebel - Twenty Killer Hurts
- Haircut One Hundred - Favourite Shirts (Boy Meets Girl)
- Helio Sequence, The - Don't Look Away
- Klark Kent - Don't Care
- Numan, Gary - We Are So Fragile
- Siouxsie And The Banshees - She's a Carnival
- That Petrol Emotion - It's a Good Thing
- Then Jerico - The Motive (Living Without You)

This week, our Grinders (the stuff we play heavily) include music from:

- Test-Icicles
- Love Is All
- Youth Group
- Oohlas, The
- M.A.S.S.
- Clap Your Hands Say Yeah

Plus we've got newly-added music:

- Clem Snide - Velvet Elvis Heart
- Dengue Fever - Tip My Canoe
- Forward Russia! - Twelve
- Get Him Eat Him - Exposure
- GoodBooks - Passchendaele
- Guillemots - Trains To Brazil
- Jason And The Astronauts - Passe Disco
- King Of France, The - Mexico
- Little Man Tate - Man I Hate Your Band
- Maximo Park - I Want You To Stay
- Prix, The - Shoot Out the Lights
- Rocket Surgery - Eyes In The Walls
- Seems So Bright - Bitter From The Start
- We Are Scientists - It's A Hit

As always, thanks for listening!

- Sean Carolan
Altrok Radio
On your computer now at http://www.altrokradio.com
On the radio Fridays at 10pm, at 90.5 The Night

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Folks,

The newest update is in the stream now; I'll be posting the text later today. 'Til then, it's probably a good time to reiterate some of the things that came up in other threads...

- Altrok Radio is free (as in beer.) You *can* sign up for a pay subscription if you'd like, but you don't have to.

- It now has Eighties Enforcement - every third non-current song is selected from the music we listened to in the eighties, guaranteed. (And every non-current song could be - it's a luck-of-the-draw thing.)

- The best way to listen to Altrok Radio is by setting up Live365 to use your MP3 player. Here's how:

At the Live365 site, go to the "My Live365" tab, and on the page that appears click the "Listen Settings" link just beneath the tabs.

Scroll down to the MP3 Player section, where there's a number of choices - choose "MP3 Player – iTunes, MusicMatch, Winamp or similar", then scroll down further and click "Save Settings".

You'll need to do this on each PC you listen with, but once your default MP3 player's playing the stream, you can close any other windows that are causing any problems with your normally clutter-free lifestyle..

On a COMPLETELY UNRELATED note, did you know that when you close WinAmp and reopen it, it remembers what it was playing last and starts it up again? Just sayin'...

-Sean
Altrok Radio at <a href="http://www.altrokradio.com">http://www.altrokradio.com</a>
Playing When Posted: Joe Strummer & The Mescaleros, "Global A Go-Go"