News by: Gail Nobles

There is a difference between radio and podcasting. In radio, you have a license to play music by music artists. However, in podcasting, you are not allowed to play copyrighted music without permission. By permission, I was able to upload a few songs by artists with permission. You have to be sure that the artists own their own music and not their record company.

Later on, as time went by, I found music artists that allow you to download their music under creative commons license. I thought it was a splendid idea. There are so many new artists wanting their music to be heard that radio does not play. Radio seems to play only a handful of music artists over and over again. You can get tired of hearing the same old songs because radio disc jockeys will play the same songs to death. Sometimes it will make you want to call up the radio station and complain, but instead, you may switch to another station. I'm surprised that radio has not lost all of its listeners. When you listen to radio today, there seems to be no variety. I think that online radio has more variety than radio in your car. You can play all of the songs that you want to hear online, but you have to depend on the DJ to play the songs you want for radio in your car. If it had not been for the internet, I would not have found new music artists and their music.

You can hear independent artists and new music from my category of music I call Podcast Grooves.