[blindreplay] Re: Salem Media Stations, Stream_Audio, and the URL Finder
- From: "Petro T. Giannakopoulos" <petrakigianos-giasou@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: blindreplay@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Sat, 26 Apr 2008 16:59:03 -0700 (PDT)
Mike
Great job. You also did a fine job explaining to others about Replay AV 8 over
Total Recorder. Are most of these Salem stations religious oriented?
Petro
--- On Sat, 4/26/08, Mike Pietruk <pietruk@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> From: Mike Pietruk <pietruk@xxxxxxxxx>
> Subject: [blindreplay] Salem Media Stations, Stream_Audio, and the URL Finder
> To: blindreplay@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Date: Saturday, April 26, 2008, 12:41 PM
> The Salem Media Group of stations appears to be yet another
> example of an ownership group adopting a form model url
> structure.
>
> Here are several examples of their stations and their urls:
>
>
> wind, Chicago, IL -- Intelligent Talk (conservative hosts)
> AM 560
> mms://uni1.salem.streamaudio.com/WIND_AM
>
>
>
> wyll, Chicago, AM 1160 -- religious ministries
> mms://uni1.salem.streamaudio.com/wyll
>
> worl, Altamont Springs-Orlando, FL, newstalk, AM 660
> mms://uni1.salem.streamaudio.com/Worl_AM
>
>
> wmca, New York City, AM 570 religious ministries
> mms://uni1.salem.streamaudio.com/Wmca_AM
>
> kgu, Honolulu, HI -- religious teaching ministries -- am
> 760
> mms://uni1.salem.streamaudio.com/kgu_A
>
> kgmz, aiea-Honolulu, hi, good time oldies fm 107.9
> mms://uni1.salem.streamaudio.com/kgmz_fM
>
> Note where the station call letters and the broadcast band
> designator appears within the url.
> The above have been verified to tune and record within
> RAV.
>
> Outside of RAV, as indicated by their url prefix, these are
> all WMP stations.
>
> What's even more interesting is that I uncovered this
> thanks to RAV's url finder found in the program's
> tools menu.
>
> Last evening, I, following the rain out of the Baltimore
> Orioles-Chicago WhiteSox game, decided to catch the end of
> the Arena Football League game between the Chicago Rush and
> the Colorado team.
> As WSCR had priorly committed to the SOX game, they farmed
> out their broadcast rights to WIND which has become a
> back-up station for Chicagoland CBS sports since WCKG
> switched from a talk to contemporary music format late last
> year.
>
> I found the following nurl for WIND
>
>
> http://www.streamaudio.com/stations/player/pages/index.asp?headertext=WIND_AM&Station=WIND_AM&Optin=no
>
>
> obtained from the database of
>
> http://streamingradioguide.com
>
> which is one of my current favorite sources of stream info.
>
> Out of curiosity, I wanted to see if RAV could handle it.
> Well, it couldn't record the stream so I decided to let
> the urlfinder do its thing.
>
> The UF actually found for
> urls embedded in the above.
>
> I decided to begin the testing with
>
>
> mms://uni1.salem.streamaudio.com/WIND_AM
>
> and, with luck on my side, this one immediately tuned and
> recorded.
> Noticing the call letters and radio band at url's end,
> the next thing was to see if this might work for other
> Salem stations.
>
> And it did as represented by the examples displayed above.
>
>
> for those of you who bothered reading to this point, here
> is another golden nugget as your reward.
> Notice also that call letters and broadcast band appear
> twice in that long convoluted Stream audio url.
>
> I haven't done extensive testing with this, but, as the
> Stream Audio plug-in player is used widely, this may prove
> valuable for locating streams for such stations. So far,
> it did work for WSB Atlanta
> (am 750) along with WOKV Jacksonville (am 690).
> Note that I didn't test this with RAV and will leave
> it to others to take it this next step if they so choose.
> Just remember that the Stream Audio url for WIND, before
> UrlFinder decompiling, failed to record and the working URL
> I happen to have in RAV for WOKV is
>
>
> http://www.streamaudio.com/stations/asx/wokv_am.asx
>
>
>
>
> Mike
>
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