Important Changes to Genre Listings on SHOUTcast

[to6e]

Hello couch-potato and chuckeh,

no that's not the case. You have just found the function for searching the stations names - which I stated in my "P. S. 2" is no alternative. It may work more or less with a term like "Club", which many radio stations use in their names, but it's not very useful for finding other genres or all that special interest stuff.

The problem is that most of the stations do not use their genres in their names. So if you search their names, you find either nothing and/or a lot of stations you're not searching for. And then the manual searching begins...

Besides I wonder why they intend to group ten thousands of stations in a relative small genre list. That must lead to huge listings for the more popular genres while the special interest stuff is hard or not to be found.

Why don't they give a predefined genre list and let the stations decide whether they want to integrate or not. That would fulfill more the true nature of music. (They also could implement two genre lists, a fixed one and a free one, which you could search both or separately.)

If you ask me, the special interest stuff is the true benefit of internet radio, because you can't get it somewhere else. Now I fear this is dying a bit...