Listeners have access to a wide range of material. Oldies, Country, Rock and almost any other kind of music can be found and listened to on the Internet. Internet radio gives listeners access to stations across the globe. Our Latin broadcast also receives emailed messages from listeners in Puerto Rico and other Latin American countries. However, Stedham says that sound quality is a major disadvantage of Internet radio.
Most computer speakers are small.
It's like listening to a cheap AM radio. This is due to the compression of files. When these files are sent to listeners' computers, programs are used to shrink them. They are then decompressed in the listeners' computer. All this compression and decompression distorts the sound quality once it reaches the listener.