Re: Recommendation for National Public Radio player
On 28/10/11 07:28, John Hasler wrote:
> Harry Putnam writes:
>> ...can anyone advise me what players are capable of connecting to npr
>> USA and in particular the Chicago area, USA affiliate `wbez'?
>
> The stations are independent organizations that purchase programming
> from (and sell it to) NPR. They are not under central management. What
> works with one won't necessarily work with another. I can listen to
> WGBH and MPR (Minnesota Public Radio) with vlc but it looks like WBEZ
> wants you to use their widget (which works for me on Iceweasel).
> Possibly you could dig out the URL for the stream and feed it to vlc
[*1] http://sc5.ord.llnw.net/stream/wbez_91_5_fm
Works with VLC, Amarok, Kaffeine, and Dragon Player. I'd be surprised if
Miro couldn't play it either.
<snipped>
Curiously they run Apache on a CentOS server and use Drupal to manage
their site...
[*1] http://www.wbez.org/player#live
Cheers
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