20 Great Radio & Podcasting Apps – Blancer.com Tutorials and projects

Launch of the iPod took the music digital. As many found it impossible to carry all the music they love and own in the tiny memory of a portable music player, Internet radio entered a new era. Customized recommendations and anywhere access of playlists make Internet Radio a compelling alternative.

There are a whole lot of online destinations to discover and listen to music and podcasts. After the break, we have compiled of list of 20 such web apps.

Spreaker

Spreaker lets you create your own online Radio. You can Go live or pre-record episodes and broadcast them later. Spreaker provides you with a user-friendly console to manage voice, special effects, and your music library.

Geo Locked: No
Paid Upgrades: No
Playlist Creation: Yes
Sign Up: Required
Mobile Apps: Yes

Pandora

Once on the verge of bankruptcy, Pandora is a legend now thanks to the launch of the iPhone. With Pandora you can explore a vast trove of music to your heart’s content. Just drop the name of one of your favorite songs, artists or genres into Pandora and let the Music Genome Project do its magic.

Geo Locked: Yes
Paid Upgrades: No
Playlist Creation: Yes
Sign Up : Required
Mobile Apps: Yes

Last.fm

Last.fm is an online radio and music recommendation service. For a better experience, you will have to install the Scrobbler, which helps you discover more music based on the songs you play.

Geo Locked: Yes
Paid Upgrades: No
Playlist Creation: Yes
Sign Up: Required
Mobile Apps: Yes

Grooveshark

Grooveshark is an online radio station filled with awesomeness and is my personal favorite. It is not locked to a particular country and allows people who have not signed up to listen songs.

Geo Locked: No
Paid Upgrades: No
Playlist Creation: Yes
Sign Up: Not Required
Mobile Apps: No

8tracks

At 8tracks you can listen for free to the best Internet radio, crafted by people who know and love music. From here you can also legally share your own online mixtape, a streaming playlist with eight or more tracks. I found the sound quality at 8tracks way better than a lot of competitors.

Geo Locked: No
Paid Upgrades: No
Playlist Creation: Yes
Sign Up: Not Required
Mobile Apps: No

Live365

Featuring 260+ genres of music produced by 7,000+ broadcasters and music tastemakers from over 150 countries, Live365 reaches millions of people worldwide. Live365′s end-to-end broadcast platform empowers individuals and organizations alike by giving them a “voice” to reach audiences around the globe.

Geo Locked: No
Paid Upgrades: Yes
Playlist Creation: Yes
Sign Up: Not Required
Mobile Apps: Yes

Songza

Armed with a fabulous design, Songza calls itself the social radio. Their radio stations cover a wide array of themes, contexts, interests, activities, feelings and eras. Songza uses Facebook Connect to show you what your friends are listening to and enjoying.

Geo Locked: No
Paid Upgrades: No
Playlist Creation: Yes
Sign Up: Not Required
Mobile Apps: No

Musicovery

Musicovery is a online radio and music discovery service with a difference. Apart from the regular music discovery options, the web app lets you choose songs that suit your mood. The have an awesome design too.

Geo Locked: No
Paid Upgrades: Yes
Playlist Creation: Yes
Sign Up: Not Required
Mobile Apps: Yes

Stereomood

Stereomood is the emotional Internet radio, providing music that best suits your mood and your activities. It works perfectly as advertised.

Geo Locked: No
Paid Upgrades: No
Playlist Creation: Yes
Sign Up: Not Required
Mobile Apps: No

StumbleAudio

StumbleAudio is a social music discovery site with a mission is to help you find music by new and exciting artists that you would like, rather than play or sell you the hits by known artists that you are “expected” to love.

Geo Locked: No
Paid Upgrades: No
Playlist Creation: Yes
Sign Up: Not Required
Mobile Apps: No

Rdio

Rdio is a new social music service, making waves. Rdio takes the work out of deciding what to play next. Just follow your friends and people with great taste in music, get inspired by what they’re playing, and listen to their playlists.

Geo Locked: Yes
Paid Upgrades: Yes
Playlist Creation: Yes
Sign Up: Required
Mobile Apps: Yes

Aol Radio

Aol Radio has got everything from streaming songs to expert reviews and blog articles on music. Discovering brand new songs released by top artists is so easy with Aol Radio as they promote top new launches right on their homepage.

Geo Locked: No
Paid Upgrades: No
Playlist Creation: Yes
Sign Up: Not Required
Mobile Apps: Yes

AccuRadio

AccuRadio offers over 500 channels programmed by real people for free. And you can customize each channel to your tastes. AccuRadio is made up of hundreds of different radio channels and each one of these has its own playlist of artists and songs

Geo Locked: No
Paid Upgrades: No
Playlist Creation: Yes
Sign Up: Not Required
Mobile Apps: No

SHOUTcast

SHOUTcast is popular online radio service and is well known for its integration with the crowd favorite desktop music player Winamp. In all they have about 46,285 radio stations and there is something for everyone over here.

Geo Locked: No
Paid Upgrades: No
Playlist Creation: Yes
Sign Up: Not Required
Mobile Apps: Yes (For Android along with the Winamp player)

Yahoo Music

Yahoo Music has a great list thoughtfully compiled playlists. There are video and audio prerol ads but they don’t hamper the experience as much as the 6 skip limitation.

Geo Locked: No
Paid Upgrades: No
Playlist Creation: Yes
Sign Up: Not Required
Mobile Apps: No

Podcast Alley

Podcast Alley is the podcast lovers portal. Featuring the best Podcast Directory and the Top 10 podcasts, as voted on by the listeners.

Geo Locked: No
Paid Upgrades: No
Genre: Mixed
Sign Up: Not Required

Podomatic

Podomatic is a great place discover podcasts and get a fantastic app to create podcasts on the go. They have listed podcasts by genre and location as well.

Geo Locked: No
Paid Upgrades: Yes
Genre: Mixed
Sign Up: Not Required

Podiobooks

As the name suggests, Podiobooks is a dedicated to books in audio form. Listeners to Podiobooks.com can choose to receive the episodes of their books via an RSS feed or by listening to episodes by directly downloading episodes from this site.

Geo Locked: No
Paid Upgrades: Yes
Genre: Books
Sign Up: Not Required

Podfeed

Podfeed.net is a podcast directory that helps you find podcasts, read and write podcast reviews, listen to podcasts and share your podcast with others.

Geo Locked: No
Paid Upgrades: Yes
Genre: Mixed
Sign Up: Not Required

iTunes

iTunes is probably the best source for discovering, listening, downloading and sharing podcasts. The iTunes Store puts thousands of free podcasts at your fingertips. To find them, select iTunes Store in the left column of the jukebox window.

Geo Locked: No
Paid Upgrades: Yes
Genre: Mixed
Sign Up: Required