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Re: Crystal Radio
I don't miss it at all.
The station made too much noise.
Too many songs with lyrics.
Not enough instrumentals.
There are better choices out there.
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Re: Crystal Radio
Radiowiz wrote:
I don't miss it at all.
The station made too much noise.
Too many songs with lyrics.
Not enough instrumentals.
There are better choices out there.
Did you even listen to the station? Instrumentals were always at least 75% of the broadcast hour.
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Re: Crystal Radio
I don't miss it at all.
The station made too much noise.
Too many songs with lyrics.
Not enough instrumentals.
There are better choices out there.
Did you even listen to the station? Instrumentals were always at least 75% of the broadcast hour.
I beg to differ. There was enough singing to make me tune out. Some of that singing was way too much noise.
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Re: Crystal Radio
I don't miss it at all.
The station made too much noise.
Too many songs with lyrics.
Not enough instrumentals.
There are better choices out there.
Did you even listen to the station? Instrumentals were always at least 75% of the broadcast hour.
I beg to differ. There was enough singing to make me tune out. Some of that singing was way too much noise.
I've listened to Crystal Radio pretty steadily the last couple of years and never heard vocals exceeding 25% of the playlist, so I know you aren't listening to it, at least not recently. Maybe 10 years ago? I'm sure Iain would set the record straight.
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Thread Starter- Scarboroughbluffsradiof99
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Re: Crystal Radio
I do miss the station.
If you want the easy listening format now, there's a station out of Vancouver called swish radio.
Or for the soft AC format, audacy.com has some stations and you don't need a VPN to listen.
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Re: Crystal Radio
hears one of audacy's exclusive soft AC stations.
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hears one of audacy's exclusive soft AC stations.
That station has too many songs with lyrics. There are quieter options out there.
Here's a Christmas Easy listening option, it's not all that bad. It might have a few soft songs with lyrics, but that seems to be less than 25% so that's a good thing.
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I have to admit this is not the kind of music that would attract me, but perhaps you'll find something more to your liking on AccuRadio.com, which offers a number of Beautiful Music channels for free. (It also offers every conceivable kind of other music gratis if you've never visited the site.)
AccuRadio Beautiful Music
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If only you still could...
When was that? I strongly miss (or pine for) the late great 94 point 9 CKQT in Oshawa. "Always quiet and beautiful..."
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There are actually quite a number of beautiful music or easy listening options available online.
1. If you subscribe to Sirius XM there is Escape on channel 69 on satellite as well as streaming from their app.
2. If you are a Rogers subscriber, Stingray’s channel 747 is Easy Listening on cable and streams from the app.
Stingray has a few other streaming stations called Music for Quiet Moments, Pure Relaxation, Instrumental
Wake Up and for soft vocals Comforting Voices and Vintage Love Songs.
3. Tune-In Radio streams Beautiful Music 101 from Los Angeles and The Oasis from Toronto.
4. The website called lists quite a number of Easy Listening radio stations with
free online streams.
I hope Don and Iain can revive Crystal Radio.
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Re: Crystal Radio
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Repeat for 10 years.
never touched it after it was set up/
shut it down when listener numbers went nuts. they always do at this time of year but went from avg. 140 an hour to 11-1300. too easy to blow vps bandwidth limits and too many steady streams not to attract licensing problems and i was bored of it.
ig
Madness takes its toll. Please have exact change.