Hi Carol,
I went through this at least tenb times so hopefully I can give you some
reasonable instructions as to how to get about the Bill Sparks page under
the United Kingdom Link. Please understand! You must be patient! It may
take 1 or two minutes to connect. I'd say a bit over a minute. It might
be helpful to leave your speech on.
Go to the Bill Sparks dot org web page. If you typed in www.bill sparks
dot org, press enter. The first thing you should hear is "radio
lookup". When you hear radio lookup, type or braille the letter u. Do not
press enter at this point. You should hear something like United Kingdom
live radio list. When you hear this press enter. Once enter is pressed,
you should again hear Radio lookup. To go forward through the links, press
spacebar. To go back through the links, press backspace. To read
everything line by line, press dot four with spacebar to read forward a
line at a time or dot one with spacebar to read back a line at a time. Dot
five with spacebar goes forward a word at a time, or a table at a time or
one can see where the "link start" is from where you wish to point and
go. Usually, the "link start" is to the left of where you wish to go. If
you want the BBC, your cursor should be pointed to the left of the bbc
where it says link start. Press enter on that link start spot and you are
there. I call this sneaking up on a link! Sometimes one needs to do
this. Thank goodness, there are easier ways to find links. You can go
forward through the links by pressing spacebar as I said earlier or back
through the links by pressing the backspace key. The Keyweb brouzer has
another nifty way to go through links. Simply type the initial letter or
if you please the first letter of what you are looking for. Type b and
listen to what it says. If it isn't bbc, keep typing the letter b till you
hear bbc. Some BBC links are followed by a number. Keep typing the letter
b till you hear the BBC with the number you are looking for. Let's say you
are looking for bbc 4. Type the letter B till you hear BBC 4 and press
enter! You will hear loading media and hopefully the stream you wish to
listen to. Some stations start with numbers on that page. Type a 2 and
see how many stations are listed. Type a 3 and see if you can find the
station 3c. If you do press enter. You will hear what they are
streaming. I was listening to a station out of Scottland a bit ago,
SAGA. Type the letter S. You may find a number of home station pages
while pressing S. When you see and hear Saga, press enter. They play a
variety of soft hits. I was impressed when I heard it. I'm leaving that
page in my favorites for a while so I can learn more about Saga out of
Scottland. The United Kingdom Radio Lookup List doesn't show any
categories of music as does the US listings. It would be good to read a
link at a line at a time so you will learn more about a station's call
letters, format, where they are located, which kind of audio stream, what
they program etc. . The best way to leave a link is to disconnect from
it by pressing O for options, C for connectivity and W for wireless. You
will be told the status of the connectivity when you click it. It will be
Y for yes to leave it on, N for no to disconnect. If you wish to leave it
on, do nothing more but listen and get out of the connectivity menu. Press
N to disconnect. Sometimes you will hear the link for a time even though
you have disconnected but the music or programming will eventually go
away. The UK page doesn't appear to me to have categories as is the case
with the US or main page of Bill Sparks dot org. You need to get station
information from the link before you click it. If you sneak up on a link,
the "link start" spot is to the left of what you wish to link to and this
is found by pressing spacebar with dot two. If you go too far back,
pressing spacebar with dot five will bring you forward till you hear link
start. When you do, press enter.
I could do no wrong today! I managed to hear every UK station I clicked
onto. It worked every time I tried it. If a station has a Real Audio
stream, don't bother! You won't hear that with your BN. Usually the
station information indicates which streaming they have. If it is Windows
Media, and you click onto the link, the BN says loading media, wait
patiently and you should hear what you hoped to be listening to.
If you have further problems, go to options menu, u for utilities, press I
for index and type W for Keyweb options or whatever it is called. Read up
on these and that should help you work the links with the Keyweb Brouzer.
HTH
Jim Aldrich
At 08:41 PM 10/07/2005 , you wrote:
Jim,
Spacebar with dots 2 or 5 don't take me where I need to be.
Please give examples of your one letter only use to get where you want
on the Bill Sparks page.
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Hi Carol and list,
I didn't have success with shoutcast at all. I wouldn't be surprised if
one had to download software in order for their site to work properly.
Bill Sparks dot org is an excellent site! Once you go into his site,
you
will see radio lookup. You then can listen through the categories
listed. Quite often I simply type the first letter of what I am looking
for and I can get right to where I need to go. I sometimes do a find
command and that also takes me where I need to go on the page. If I
need
to sneak up on something, I use spacebar with either dot two or dot
five. Once I'm on what I'm looking for I pressed enter. This usually
takes me where I need to go.
Jim Aldrich
At 02:40 AM 10/07/2005 , you wrote:
>Hi Sarah,
>
>I took a look at
>
>www.shoutcast.com
>
>and must say that I think Bill Sparks' pages are easier. I couldn't
>actually find my stations by searching and could only look through the
>pages. (Who wants to look through over 400?) Maybe there are a few
>tricks I still have to learn! What is your experience with it?
>
>I've worked more with the
>
>www.billsparks.org
>
>site now and, because I found a link directly for the United Kingdom's
>list at the bottom of the Home Page, I was then able to look through
>and save favourites. However, I still wasn't able to access the
>"country" combo box further up the page. The mPower just read out a
>list of the countries and no "clicking" anywhere appeared to achieve my
>aim. I couldn't "enter" on that combo box either.
>
>If anyone has had more success with this then please tell me the secret
>because I'm sure it will crop up in future WEB pages.
>
>Thanks.
>
>
>--
>Carol
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>Sent: Thursday, October 06, 2005 3:45 PM
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>
>
>Hi Carol,
>
>Would you mind trying
>
>www.shoutcast.com
>
>with the BN mPower? I'm curious to see if and how this will work.
>
>Thanks,
>
>Sarah
>
>
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>Sent: Thursday, October 06, 2005 9:31 AM
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>
>
>Hi all,
>
>Today I was trying to get together a collection of radio stations (as
>suggested by Jonathan in his demo) and went to
>
>www.billsparks.org
>
>to try to do this. I found this easy to do with the PC but got rather
>stuck with the mPower. I could not find the combo box to select United
>Kingdom so therefore tried including the URL to show the UK stations.
>Unfortunately, all my tries were in vain and I still haven't got that
>list up and running.
>
>Can anyone please help with the use of that particular page using the
>BN and/or give any other useful sites for looking up these radio
>stations?
>
>Thanks!
>
>
>--
>Carol
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