[vicsireland] Re: internet radio picking a player
- From: "Flor Lynch" <florlync@xxxxxx>
- To: <vicsireland@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Mon, 3 Nov 2008 12:46:06 -0000
Tony's question was, how do you choose a default player?
The reality is that not one player will play all audio file-types - so at
least in my opinion it's not a good idea to have just one default player,
that is, if you like your audio media files. "Realplayer comes near to
doing so; but it changes some file extensions - mp3 to mpga, for example -
so that other players cannot play them then. Real audio is proprietary to
Real networks, so that other players will not be able to, or will have
difficulty with playing .ram and .rm format files. you can have RealPlayer
playing .wma (and I think .asx - the common Windows media player formats
of - audio streams and files. Many radio or smaller stations use winamp,
which is also a pretty versatile player. Most of these three players' more
advanced features are all reasonably accessible with JAWS. there are lots
of winamp stations on shoutcast.com - www.shoutcast.com/
Visit www.whitestick.co.uk
for a flavour of programs out there and alternative programs that do much or
all of what the above media programs do.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Paul Halligan" <tigerone@xxxxxxxxxx>
To: <vicsireland@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Monday, November 03, 2008 11:26 AM
Subject: [vicsireland] internet radio picking a player
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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