Re: 128k WMA problem solved on Wi-Fi radios

hwh <iimeeltje@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

There's links for Chill, theJazz and Classic FM on here:

http://www.digitalradiotech.co.uk/broadband_internet_radio.htm

But the issue was only with playback on Wi-Fi Internet radios, because they
reduced the bit rate for playback from 128k to 32k, but if you play them on
a computer they're always 128k (apart from if there's some dynamic bandwidth
reduction, but that's rare).

Right, thanks. I tried a few of them on my iMac and they played at the
advertised rates. I told the system to use VLC player, not iTunes (for
Guiseppe, www.videolan.org).

I already have the latest VLC installed, but when I copy and paste one
of those addresses in it, it gives me those error messages:
main: Connection to mediasrv.musicradio.com port 1755 failed: Operation
timed out
access_mms: failed to open a connection (tcp)
access_mms: cannot connect to server
access_mms: cannot read data
access_mms: error: HTTP/1.0 400 Bad Request
access_mms: cannot start stream
main: no suitable access module for
`mms://mediasrv.musicradio.com/Chill?MSWMExt=.asf'

Windows Media Player for Mac OS X only plays the streams at 32 kb/s.
How do you access the 128 kb/s streams with VLC?

Oh well, problem solved in any case, now I tried Quicktime with the WMA
plug-in and it seems to play the 128 kb/s streams fine!

Although I'm not sure that I really missed anything until now, judging
by the content of the stations. Still, it's good that big radio groups
such as GCap stream their stations at those high bitrates.
.

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