AccuRadio
Encyclopedia
AccuRadio is an independent, multichannel Internet radio
property. AccuRadio reaches nearly a million listeners per month. Based on press releases at andomedia.com, Accuradio is usually about the tenth most listened to web streaming service, although that varies from month to month, among all US broadcast groups that stream online and that information is from average quarter hour (AQH) and cumulative audience (cume) totals for Accuradio as gathered by Ando Media.
With over 300 channels of rock
, pop
, jazz
, classical
, oldies
, country
, urban
, Latin, vocals and world
.
These category denominations are the main headings on the AccuRadio website, and most of these are the head of a submenu listing several links to subordinate webpages. Most of these webpages contain a list of selectable radio channels. Not all the channels available are listed on the individual genre pages, some are found under a link on the home page for AccuRadio labeled 'Complete Channel Listing'. The AccuTunes interface won People's Voice award for Best Radio in the 2008 Webby Awards
.
Listeners to the AccuRadio transmissions can observe that these have an unusually precise transmission of metadata
: (The song) Title, Artist, Album, Composer, Label and Year are routinely transmitted. This means these channels are well suited for automated radio music ripping
, a process resulting in a list of MP3
files well suited for explorative browsing of music.
AccuRadio doesn't regard this as a threat against conventional music CD sales, which they participate in by linking to Amazon.com
: "We stream at only 32 kbps, which makes for a good-sounding Internet radio station but is not a quality level that most consumers feel is a substitute for CD ownership."http://accuradio.com/aboutaccuradio/
Accuradio has also launched two subsites that are not listed in the main site's complete channel listing or anywhere else on the main site. They are chitownsmoothjazz.com and phillysmoothjazz.com. The latter mainly mirrors the Accuradio smooth jazz channels, while the former, while also mirroring the individual style channels, leans more towards Chicago smooth jazz artists than the main Accuradio site does. Both sites were started after over the air stations that aired the format dropped smooth jazz for other formats.
AccuRadio is based in Chicago
. Their founder/CEO is Kurt Hanson who publishes RAIN: Radio and Internet Newsletter.
Internet radio
Internet radio is an audio service transmitted via the Internet...
property. AccuRadio reaches nearly a million listeners per month. Based on press releases at andomedia.com, Accuradio is usually about the tenth most listened to web streaming service, although that varies from month to month, among all US broadcast groups that stream online and that information is from average quarter hour (AQH) and cumulative audience (cume) totals for Accuradio as gathered by Ando Media.
With over 300 channels of rock
Rock music
Rock music is a genre of popular music that developed during and after the 1960s, particularly in the United Kingdom and the United States. It has its roots in 1940s and 1950s rock and roll, itself heavily influenced by rhythm and blues and country music...
, pop
Pop music
Pop music is usually understood to be commercially recorded music, often oriented toward a youth market, usually consisting of relatively short, simple songs utilizing technological innovations to produce new variations on existing themes.- Definitions :David Hatch and Stephen Millward define pop...
, jazz
Jazz
Jazz is a musical style that originated at the beginning of the 20th century in African American communities in the Southern United States. It was born out of a mix of African and European music traditions. From its early development until the present, jazz has incorporated music from 19th and 20th...
, classical
Classical music
Classical music is the art music produced in, or rooted in, the traditions of Western liturgical and secular music, encompassing a broad period from roughly the 11th century to present times...
, oldies
Oldies
Oldies is a term commonly used to describe a radio format that concentrates on music from a period of about 15 to 55 years before the present day....
, country
Country music
Country music is a popular American musical style that began in the rural Southern United States in the 1920s. It takes its roots from Western cowboy and folk music...
, urban
Urban contemporary
Urban contemporary is a music radio format. The term was coined by the late New York DJ Frankie Crocker in the mid 1970s. Urban contemporary radio stations feature a playlist made up entirely of hip hop/rap, contemporary R&B, pop, electronica such as dubstep and drum and bass and Caribbean music...
, Latin, vocals and world
World music
World music is a term with widely varying definitions, often encompassing music which is primarily identified as another genre. This is evidenced by world music definitions such as "all of the music in the world" or "somebody else's local music"...
.
These category denominations are the main headings on the AccuRadio website, and most of these are the head of a submenu listing several links to subordinate webpages. Most of these webpages contain a list of selectable radio channels. Not all the channels available are listed on the individual genre pages, some are found under a link on the home page for AccuRadio labeled 'Complete Channel Listing'. The AccuTunes interface won People's Voice award for Best Radio in the 2008 Webby Awards
Webby Awards
A Webby Award is an international award presented annually by The International Academy of Digital Arts and Sciences for excellence on the Internet with categories in websites, interactive advertising, online film and video, and mobile....
.
Listeners to the AccuRadio transmissions can observe that these have an unusually precise transmission of metadata
Metadata
The term metadata is an ambiguous term which is used for two fundamentally different concepts . Although the expression "data about data" is often used, it does not apply to both in the same way. Structural metadata, the design and specification of data structures, cannot be about data, because at...
: (The song) Title, Artist, Album, Composer, Label and Year are routinely transmitted. This means these channels are well suited for automated radio music ripping
Radio music ripping
The term ripping can also apply to radio. New software, techniques and cloud services now makes it possible to extract the songs played on the radio and digitally save them on separate audio tracks...
, a process resulting in a list of MP3
MP3
MPEG-1 or MPEG-2 Audio Layer III, more commonly referred to as MP3, is a patented digital audio encoding format using a form of lossy data compression...
files well suited for explorative browsing of music.
AccuRadio doesn't regard this as a threat against conventional music CD sales, which they participate in by linking to Amazon.com
Amazon.com
Amazon.com, Inc. is a multinational electronic commerce company headquartered in Seattle, Washington, United States. It is the world's largest online retailer. Amazon has separate websites for the following countries: United States, Canada, United Kingdom, Germany, France, Italy, Spain, Japan, and...
: "We stream at only 32 kbps, which makes for a good-sounding Internet radio station but is not a quality level that most consumers feel is a substitute for CD ownership."http://accuradio.com/aboutaccuradio/
Accuradio has also launched two subsites that are not listed in the main site's complete channel listing or anywhere else on the main site. They are chitownsmoothjazz.com and phillysmoothjazz.com. The latter mainly mirrors the Accuradio smooth jazz channels, while the former, while also mirroring the individual style channels, leans more towards Chicago smooth jazz artists than the main Accuradio site does. Both sites were started after over the air stations that aired the format dropped smooth jazz for other formats.
AccuRadio is based in Chicago
Chicago
Chicago is the largest city in the US state of Illinois. With nearly 2.7 million residents, it is the most populous city in the Midwestern United States and the third most populous in the US, after New York City and Los Angeles...
. Their founder/CEO is Kurt Hanson who publishes RAIN: Radio and Internet Newsletter.