November 8, 2004
Mercora: Like Live365, Minus the Commercials
This article reminded me to check out Mercora. So far, I’m pleased with it, despite some quality problems in the streams. For those not familiar, Mercora enables P2P streaming of music just like an Internet radio station. Users host the content, and Mercora pays all the licensing fees and apparently ensures that it meets the requirements of 17 USC 114. You can search for what is currently being played and what songs are in someone’s library, but you don’t know specifically what will be played next. The interface is decent – for each station, it shows artist information and provides a link to the album on Amazon. Quality is variable, but at least you aren’t stuck with tons of commercials, as in the free version of Live365.
Still waiting for someone to implement Todd Larson’s Communicast, a peer-rating based web radio station.
Filed by Derek Slater at 5:15 pm under General news
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