On Wednesday 30 May 2007 19:13, Johannes Wiedersich wrote: > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > John Hasler wrote: > > Tshepang Lekhonkhobe wrote: > >> Hi, all I want to do is listen to radio 2 (sad I know). I am nable to > >> find any way of doing this with out using RealPlayer, which is very hard > >> to do as unable to find one that I can down load and use on debian. > > > > Install streamtuner. > > That's really cool! Haven't managed, yet, to find radio 2, but there are > loads! > > Johannes
Yeh it seems great if you have broadband, but I'm on dialup. Also as far as I know the only way you can stream from www.bbc.co.uk is by using the bbc radioplayer, and that requires realplayer to be installed, which I have. I'm not saying that I like realplayer, but if it's the only way to listen to Internet radio from the bbc, then I'm stuck with it. I believe also that since many of their radio stations have moved to digital, that you can also listen using WMA, which mplayerplug-in handles ok. That's Mozilla-mplayer on Debian. Back in the 60's I remember listening to Radio Luxembourg, and Radio Caroline. The signals were weak, and would constantly fade out and back in, accompanied by harmonics, but we were happy to listen to the music. Quite why CD quality streams are necessary now I don't know. In my case on dialup, I am denied being able to listen to this music. I listen to radio 1 on www.bbc.co.uk/radio1, and don't find anything wrong with the quality on my dialup connection. Why this obsession with perfection? As an example. Now and again I go to http://cpr.org/ . News, and classical musical music. Both are fine on my dialup (low bandwidth) connection. Those that like classical music are usually fussy about the quality, but I find no problems with the quality of the streams. No rant intended. Just some observations, along with not wanting to be forced into getting a broadband connection to just listen to music, etc. Nigel. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]