Listening to online music has never been easier with the advances in computer technology. While it is possible to listen to music via a modem and dialup connection, it is far more enjoyable with faster connections as there tends to be less latency with the streaming music feed.

The first step before playing music online is to ensure that a program is installed that can play the music. The Windows operating system comes installed with Windows Media Player that can play most types of music that users encounter online.

Other programs can be downloaded that replace Windows Media Player. Programs like Winamp, AIMP2 or Realplayer can all play music that is streaming from the Internet.

There are basically two major ways to listen to music online. Loading music playlists into a software music player or listening to music on embedded players on Internet sites. Embedded players usually are located on music portals. They provide access to the most basic features like Play, pause, controlling the volume and skipping songs.

The next step after making sure that the Internet connection is capable of streaming the music to the computer and that a compatible program is installed to receive and playback the audio stream is to find a website that streams the right kind of music. One way to find results fast is to use Internet search engines like Google or Yahoo to look for those music portals.

Search terms like free music online or listening to music online will provide plenty of results to work with. Many sites contain playlists for various music genres that can be listened to online. Choices usually contain top music, rock, pop, heavy or rap among other choices. The Internet contains practically any kind of music and genres even those you might never have heard about before.

Links are usually provided on those music portals to play the music in a software music player. The default music player is associated with those music playlists. A click on a link should launch the music player automatically on the computer system.

There may be a dialog asking whether you want to allow the file to play on your machine. This is only a security precaution to ensure you requested to let the file run from the remote machine. If you choose to allow this and continue, your program should start playing the streaming music you selected.

Now, all you have to do it enjoy the music you’ve selected.

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