Online radios have already been covered in this blog with a list of the best websites and the best programs to install on the desktop to rarely listen via streaming web. Radio listened to on the internet has the potential to break down geographical barriers and it is certainly nice to be able to listen to music from all over the world by connecting to American or Australian radios. But it must be said that, most of the sites divide the streamed radios on the basis of the musical genre or the genre of topics covered by that radio station and it is rather complicated to search for your favorite radios.
What I mean is that if I don't have a radio at home or at work and I don't want to listen to an American radio but an Italian radio, maybe that is only heard in the area where I live, I would like to be able to turn on the PC and use it as if it had a FM receiver, with "home" frequencies. In short, without pretending to listen who knows which Asian or South American radio, I prefer to get on the Italian or Roman frequencies, perhaps to hear my favorite DJ or the chatter about football teams and the endless comments on the players.
In addition, I would also like to know that I can listen to my team's radio commentary with the local radio commentator who speaks as a fan.
Surely it is known that almost all radios have their beautiful website from which you can listen online but the need is to have them all together in a single list and be able to choose them with a click, doing the normal zapping that would be done from the car radio .
To listen to Italian and worldwide FM radio stations, divided by city, the best site I have found is TuneIn (ex RadioTime).
The simplicity and effectiveness of this website, clear and clean that works directly from the browser, are the factors that led me to dedicate an article to it. It offers a list of over 10, 000 FM radio stations from around the world to choose from, therefore, the chances of finding your favorite station in your city or town are quite high.
You can register (not necessarily) for free and the system automatically recognizes the area from which you connect by proposing, in the "Local Radio" list, the FM stations that you hear when you turn on the radio . If the site goes wrong to locate the computer from which you connect or if you want to listen to radio from another country or state, you can press the "Browse by location" button from the home page and browse the directory by choosing the continent (Europe), the state (Italy) and the city. The covered cities are Rome, Milan, Florence, Bologna, Naples, Palermo, Catania, Sardinia, Turin and then there is another long list for all the other Italian cities. For Rome, for example, there are many national and local FM radios such as Radio Incontro, Centro Suono sport, RAM Power, Radio deejay, Spazio Radio, Erre 2, M2O, Radio, Sport Network, Radio RAI 1, Radio 2, Radio Rai 3 and others.
Clearly there are not all of them, probably (deny me as well) there is no site that manages to collect them all so, for the moment, this is the most complete and easiest to consult, at least to find those stations that broadcast in FM, from the radios real.
For each station, you can press the "listen" button in green and listen to what is being broadcast live.
If the button is yellow, streaming may not be available, however, for each radio listed, you can click the link that reports to the website of the same so as to check whether it is online or not. If you press the "Advanced" button, next to the "Search", you access the advanced search and you can search for a station by name, by frequency, by genre, by city, by country and so on. If you register on the site, an additional button appears on the site that allows you to add your favorite radio stations to a list called "preset".
Incidentally, I remember that to listen to real radio, AM / FM on the computer, it is better to buy a USB tuner that works well and costs little.
