[blindreplay] Re: Music of YOur Life: follow-up

  • From: <petrakigianos-giasou@xxxxxxxxx>
  • To: blindreplay@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Thu, 20 Sep 2007 03:30:41 -0700 (PDT)

Hi
It has been added to the Replay Media Guide. Check and see if it
works for you.
 

--- Pam Drake <pamdrake@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> Thanks a million, Mike.  It would be great to have it in the
> RAV guide if
> they can do it.  
> 
> Just for fun I tried launching the stream from the convoluted
> link, and it
> wouldn't open.  The message said Windows Media Player could
> not open it.  In
> fact, the second time I entered the url IE tried to ftp it. 
> not
> surprisingly that couldn't be done either.  Wonder why the
> difference,
> unless Vtuner just has some special coding.  
> 
> Thanks again. 
> 
> Pam
> 
> 
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: blindreplay-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> [mailto:blindreplay-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Mike
> Pietruk
> Sent: Wednesday, September 19, 2007 6:18 PM
> To: blindreplay@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: [blindreplay] Music of YOur Life: follow-up
> 
> 
> Pam
> 
> I took a look again at the vtuner url, and it indeed is a
> vtuner custom link
> primarily designed for use with their own tuner product.  It
> will, as we
> know, also work independently of their tuner.
> 
> 
>
http://www.vtuner.com/vtunerweb/asp/StatLaunchMP3.asp?id=1944&link=1
> 
> notice their id number of the station at the end.
> 
> 
> When I launched the link, which played in Windows Media
> Player,k the
> urlfinder discovered no links.
> 
> 
> I then entered the link, via RAV's add a show manually
> function, and was
> successful in both starting a stream capture as well as
> listening to moyl
> via the RAV tuner.
> Then the url finder discovered this rather convoluted link.
> 
>
http://bdcast-musicofyourlife.wm.llnwd.net/bdcast_musicofyourlife
> 
> Now, here is where all this gets mighty strange.  RAV was more
> than able to
> record this stream, just as with the vtuner stream.
> However, when I asked Vtuner to allow me to tune into the
> stream, it balked.
> No other player on my system would play the link either.
> Oh yes, when I looked at properties in WMP when the Vtuner
> launched its
> link, it too showed the convoluted link.
> 
> So here are the conclusions:
> 
> definitely use
> 
>
http://www.vtuner.com/vtunerweb/asp/StatLaunchMP3.asp?id=1944&link=1
> 
> for listening as well as recording via RAV.
> 
> If nothing else, maybe we can now appreciate why attempting to
> directly
> listen through the moyl website was an effort in futility.
> To the credit of the folks at VTUNER.COM, they figured out how
> to link to
> the stream directly.
> 
> I don't have much luck in getting stations added to the RAV
> Media Guide.
> Perhaps Petro can pass this on as, with the difficulty of
> linking to this
> one, it would be very useful if the Media Guide could include
> this one.
> 
> 
> 
>            Mike
> 
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