Canada’s net radio takes a leap

Listeners can access any of these features without interrupting their audio stream, from anywhere in the world.
 
New audio technology
Using the latest audio streaming technology and the free Windows Media Player (www.microsoft.com), each of FMcanada.com’s stations offers innovative features such as:
· No commercials until October (and, they clm, limited commercials  later)
· The name and artist for the current song
· “Pause a song” for a minute or an hour and resume at the note you left
· “Next selection”, tells you what artist is up next
· “Skip to the next song” lets you jump immediately to hear the next song
· One step “click and purchase” the current CD

Since it is not “broadcast” media, FMcanada.com is not regulated by the CRTC. The company says this will actually help it promote Canadian artists who can’t break into the tightly formatted world of commercial radio.
 
“Traditional radio, as we know it today, is going to decline and eventually disappear,” says Wall Street Journal columnist Walt Mossberg. “But not the concept of radio — of listening to audio content as a pleasant way of passing the time.”