Dear listeners,

after the fire that destroyed a datacenter in Strasbourg and put our station OFF, the situation looks really bad. Our provider still doesn’t know if/when the service will be restored. Apparently, it will take more than 7 days.

For this reason, I have moved the station to a new server (Oh no, not again!). The new server has a capacity for 2,500 simultaneous listeners (the previous one had 1,000) so, if no accidents happen, it will be more than enough for all our listeners.

This is the NEW STREAM ADDRESS for Milano Lounge:

https://centova.wlservices.org:4003/stream

If you want to listen to Milano Lounge with your favourite media player, please use these links:

Winamp, iTunes

Windows Media Player

Real Player

QuickTime

Dear Listeners,

I can’t cope with social networks anymore. They are time consuming and I have decided to spend that time for selecting good music for you, instead of on social networks.

Plus, I do not like their commercial policy. This is completely the opposite of what I am. I think that advertising is killing also FM radios in Italy, with 20 minutes of ad every hour, not to mention that in the other 40 minutes you’ll listen only to the same songs sponsored by majors and useless blah blah blah of djs.

For me, advertising is also killing social networks, with an ad coming up every 2-3 posts, not to mention that i am now getting ads also on Whatsapp and Messenger. This is really too invasive, and this is not the way I would like the future world to be.

Milano Lounge is my personal radio station, created for the pleasure of sharing my favourite music with other people, and my idea is to do something completely different from FM radios.

At the moment, there are 1,115 tracks in the day rotation, with songs repeating every 3 days, always in a different order, plus 485 tracks in the night rotation, with songs repeating every 2 days (in different order).

It is not a financial empire or a corporation, and you donations are really helpful when I need to pay licenses and other monthly fees to keep the radio online. If you wish to make a donation, here is the link for PayPal:

https://www.paypal.com/donate/?hosted_button_id=DHFSFDPD6U56A

Please let me know what you think, you can email me at musclerob@gmail.com

Thank you,

Roberto

Hi everyone,

I can’t find a less obvious way to wish HAPPY 2021 to all the listeners of Milano Lounge.

During this strange year, the community of listeners proved to be very attached to the station, writing to me often to report malfunctions or songs to add / remove to the programming.

You are very attentive listeners and this makes me really happy. I’d like to get to know you one by one, but there are so many of you.

Just think that Milano Lounge has closed 2020 with 747,561 unique listeners, from all over the world.

The TOP countries have been:

1. Switzerland
2. Germany
3. Italy
4. France
5. United States
6. Canada
7. Australia
8. Sweden
9. Russian Federation
10. Belgium

That said, although I can claim figures that not many online station can claim, I have decided not to get trapped in the “war of numbers”.

After all, Milano Lounge is a non-profit personal web radio, which I created for the pleasure of sharing my favorite music with listeners.

It is not a commercial web radio that has to follow a different model, putting advertising to survive and choosing songs based on pressure from record companies.

In this moment, as I do radio for the sole pleasure of doing it, it makes no sense to look at the total number of listeners, I prefer to look at their quality and develop a personal relationship.

It’s also interesting for me to see if this “no advertising” model (with the station funded by me and listeners) can stand the test of time, or it is not viable in 2021.

Still happy new year and please continue to support Milano Lounge with your listening and your donations.

Roberto