[vicsireland] internet radio picking a player

  • From: "Paul Halligan" <tigerone@xxxxxxxxxx>
  • To: <vicsireland@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Mon, 3 Nov 2008 11:26:03 -0000

Blankhi tony and folks

in the tutorial i posted on recording internet radio i mentioned that some 
stations use real player and some use windows media player.
using the instructions in the tutorial for the website mentioned will let you 
identify which stations use which player. 
personally i have both real player and windows media player installed to widen 
my choice of stations i can play but as far as i can figure if a station uses 
real player and you only have wmp then you are snookered!

below are the steps in the tutorial that are relevant to this question

Keep pressing your down arrow until you come to the station you want, in our 
example radio one extra.  

6 when you get to the station you will hear the following

First the station name

Second the location of the station

Third jaws will say Graphic and then the player you can use i.e. if it says 
graphic real audio you can use real player to play and record the station.

If jaws says graphic and windows media player you can use that one and so on 

Note 

that if jaws announces map then the station will open in real player too. 

7 now we wanted radio one extra in Dublin and have got to the station name

Arrow down again and we hear Dublin, its location

Arrow down again and we hear graphic real audio which means the station can be 
played through real player

arrow down again you will hear jaws say graphic windows media but we want to 
arrow down past this

arrow again and jaws says link 32 kbps this is the link to open and listen to 
the station 

8 Press enter and the station opens in real player after a few seconds. Be 
patient  





i use the mikesworldradio site because it is not so tricky to navigate. there 
are numerous sites like shoutcast.com

or radio365 which you might find more or less easier to navigate.

hope that clears things a little, but contact me either on list or offlist 
tigerone@xxxxxxxxxx

if you run into any other glitchs, god knows it took me 3 years to get my head 
around it.

regards

Paul H

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