Difference Between Streaming Radio Stations

[gem]

hi.. sometimes i record internet radio broadcasts to my r900 for listening to on days when i have nothing to listen to.

anyway, i'm doing one of these recording sessions right now as i type, and i suddenly thought of something.

what's the difference between the different internet radio station providers? like windows media player radio, winamp radio, itunes radio, live365 radio, shoutcast radio, etc? i know winamp uses shoutcast but what about the others?

for example i noticed that winamp/shoutcast radio gives the song and title name of the current song playing but windows media player radio does not. i also noticed that iTunes radio doesn't give you info about the radio station when you right-click unlike the others.

can someone enlighten me on this? i'm really curious about it.

thanks!

[jadeclaw]

live365 sounds crappy. And even if you pay, you won't get real good quality.

Thanks to a new encoder, Tuner2 offers HiFi-Quality at modem-capable bitrates.

Needs Winamp5 and show title and artist for the song played.

Shoutcast offers the biggest selection and is already included in Winamp5.