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RE: Is there a streaming service that plays a mix of music like 'good' FM radio?

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In Reply to: RE: Is there a streaming service that plays a mix of music like 'good' FM radio? posted by B. Scarpia on November 21, 2020 at 04:03:36

I don't usually focus on classical for numerous reasons. Try BBC radio 3, it is 128kbps mp3 stream.

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+1 - PAR 10:06:49 11/21/20 (1)
" Try BBC radio 3, it is 128kbps mp3 stream."

Although it is also available ( depending upon eligibility - in principle you need to be a BBC licence payer) in AAC 320KB/s.

However two issues for Radio 3 . It is a broadcast UK station so a lot of the good stuff is at odd hours if you listen from the USA. So, for example, the live lunchtime concerts or evening concerts will be at 5:00 am or 11:30am respectively in California. It is also a fully curated service so you may find that instead of music there is an hour's discussion ( with musical examples) of the Second Viennese School or Beethoven's last year. Most of the station's output is from recordings of live concerts or studio sessions. It only relies upon commercial recordings during the morning (UK time).

If the OP just wants a background music service then France Musique Classique Plus is nice.

"We need less, but better" - Dieter Rams
- +2 - Chris from Lafayette 11:48:14 11/21/20 (0)
  Another thing I like about BBC Radio music programs is that the commentary from the announcers is often so erudite. The BBC's announcers, for the most part, put our announcers in the US to shame. (However, that doesn't make me any less skeptical of the BBC's regular news coverage though - LOL!)
  
  I should listen more to Radio 3, but I seem to be backed up so often in my other listening of downloads, Qobuz, etc. - and even (horrors!) disc-based music carriers!

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