Radio Paradise is a non-commercial listener-supported Internet radio station that helped to redefine the radio station for the internet era. It is known for high quality audio streams and curated playlists. The station is based in the United States but has a significant international audience, with many of the songs and station greetings on its "world" stream in multiple languages. The station is known familiarly as "RP". Programming As of 2020, RP has four curated playlists: Rock Mix, emphasizing modern and classic rock; World/Etc Mix, emphasizing world and electronic music; Mellow Mix, emphasizing songs with a more relaxing tone; and Main Mix, combining the three. A little jazz and classical music is sometimes heard as well. Detailed information about the playlists is available on the website but they can only be listened to live on the stream. There is limited DJ commentary, with sets that can go on for hours without interruption. Community The station has a lively online community via its song comments, forums, journals, comments section, and contests on the web site. Radio Paradise has more than 135,000 registered members and hundreds of thousands of listeners from all regions of the world. the active play music library had over 16,000 songs and the total library size is over a million songs. The web site allows users to rate and comment on recently played songs. The players buffers the stream ahead, which allows users to skip individual tracks. The players provide detailed information on the artist being played, including data from the artist's Wikipedia page, the album cover, lyrics, distribution of user ratings, and a scrolling list of often colorful user comments, sometimes embellished with videos. As of June 2020, the track with highest listener rating of all time was "Wish You Were Here" by Pink Floyd. The ten most frequently played groups were Pink Floyd, The Beatles, Led Zeppelin, Radiohead, The Rolling Stones, David Bowie, U2, Peter Gabriel, R.E.M., and Dire Straits. Streams RP streams are available in multiple compressed audio formats, as well as lossless FLAC. The streams can be accessed on virtually any device and operating system. The web site and playout systems use Linux and customized open-source software components for most of its sections, a system devised by Goldsmith initially for KPIG's playout system. They also use PHP and BBCode. History The station was started in February 2000 by Bill Goldsmith and his wife Rebecca