Your Own Radio Station

Whether Napster is a tool for thieves or a needed adjunct to the record industry’s brain-dead distribution methods (it’s both), one of the software’s under-appreciated facets has always been its ability to serve as a personal radio station. You could tell the world what was on your own “play list” and let the world listen.

UserLand Software has taken that notion a step further, but also deliberately omits something, in a newly released product called Radio UserLand. You can tell the world what you’re playing, and modify your own play list like crazy, but Radio UserLand doesn’t let people go straight to your computer to download the MP3s. If I understand this right, we’re talking about a personal radio station, not a web-cast station — something for individuals to create their own playlists, sharing the titles but not the actual music.

CAUTION: Radio UserLand is beta software, and installation problems have already been found (and are being fixed). I doubt novices will find it very intuitive in this initial version.

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