How Do You Tune In To Radio Stations..........

[Guest clacton crew]

useing the windows media player on the spv c 500. i have been trying to find URLs For the streems of radio stations on windows media player on google but it wont find any. does any one know where i can find a list of urls on the internet as i dont know much about this sort of thing?. :?

[Guest simonbratt99]

for radio on the net i use

Radio locator

Hundreds of stations inc uk ones

[Guest martin]

You just need to create some shortcuts to the address of the Audio streams.

Here are some examples zipped up :)

Just copy whatever shortcuts you want to Storage(or IPSM)\Windows\Favourites

* Watch out for those GPRS costs though :wink:

shortcuts.zip

[Guest simonbratt99]

is it possible to stream these via a pass though to the PC, ie not racking up charges? or is it all a bit too slow?

[Guest martin]

is it possible to stream these via a pass though to the PC, ie not racking up charges? or is it all a bit too slow?

Yep you can just set the Internet connection to pass through connection in Settings-Data connections. Not sure it why you would want to do it though as you can play the audio streams on you PC anyway :wink:

[Guest clacton crew]

yes thats how i went to tune in to these streems. i will do it when i have my phone connected up to my pc.

[Guest clacton crew]

i have all ready set the phone up to pass through last week. and i am on aol broadband so i will be able to tune in to 128k streems i hope.

[Guest RickDawson]

why do you need to stream through your mobile?

why not just output to some decent speakers?

I'm a avid listener to Digitally Imported. (http://www.di.fm / http://www.digitallyimported.com)

[Guest martin]

I think it's one of those things that people want to try at least once on their phone (Audio streaming direct to the phone using Pocket Windows Media Player). It would be great thing if you had unlimited GPRS but if not, I suppose the pass through will do :)

While were at it here's the shortcut to Virgin Radio 1215AM, Groove and Classic Rock (20K & 64K)

[edit] The 64K version keeps changing to 20K. I suspect WM player keeps doing it but don't know why :?

Virgin Radio.zip

[Guest FosterJ]

Listening to the radio via GPRS over your phone must cost a fortune, no? Anyone got a bill through yet?

[Guest martin]

At 20kbps I think you will get you just over 6 minutes of streaming for 1MB :shock:

It could prove very costly unless you where are on a very high GPRS data plan.

[Guest Disco Stu]

House music all night long (Say what ?1?)

http://www.electronic-music.net/music.php

..and techno, dub, breakbeat etc etc 8) )

[Guest bigfatbob]

I am trying to use the pass through connection to listen to the radio at work (so I can listen through my headset). I have had to set-up a new proxy connection and was asked for u/name and pwd. Now when I connect to the internet it works fine but it still dials when connecting to a radio station from within media player.

Any ideas?

[Guest clacton crew]

i know a very good web site to do this. check out http://www.radiofeeds.co.uk/ on the phone and click on the windows media player stations and they play :) . now i would not reckamend doing this other gprs but if you work in an office or are at an internet cafe you could just plug the phone it to your pc and this should work 8)

[Guest madmaxedcn]

i put the shortcuts in the start menu but all i get is error open the app first then file or something. igot mpx200 w 2003

[Guest Disco Stu]

You need to type the shortcuts into the address bar in internet explorer on the phone

[Guest Confucious]

Wouldn't it be easier just to buy a cheap radio for work.... ^_^

[Guest overcast1]

I just got my C500 the other day & dunno how to pass the internet through to the phone, can anyone explain?

cheers

[Guest RT87]

In settings, go to Data Connections and change all possible options to 'pass through connection'.

Now, simply try connect to the inet on the phone - should work!

(the computer also needs an active connection of course..)

[Guest jason76]

bluetooth conection to pc, i can get as far as my back garden, pointless really but still fun when listening to austrailian and american stations ^_^

[Guest dejitaru]

I have an i-mate sp3 and have been messin around with audio streaming, and noticed that when clicking on a .m3u or .pls stream it says that it cannot play the file. So what I did was save the playlist file to my pc and then copy it over to my i-mate and associate the file with betaplayer and then open the file locally from my phone and the stream works fine. Mostly monkeyradio and Somafm of course the 24k streams work best on GPRS but I do have an unlimited gprs plan with tmo USA and its nice to be able to stream music.

[Guest metalgearal]

bluetooth conection to pc, i can get as far as my back garden, pointless really but still fun when listening to austrailian and american stations  :D

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Excellent, this works over bluetooth too? That's great, just mucking around on MSN messenger at the moment, even though I'm actually sitting at my PC :D

[Guest jbrowne]

Hi,

I have just got the new c500, and have been trying to listen to radio stations by opening the url in media player. However, when playing a 48kbps stream (BBC 6 music..., there is a break every 10 seconds due to buffering....is there anything I can do to stop this from happening? There is a lower quality stream available for the station, but the sound quality is terrible, so would rather not have to chose this one...

Thanks.

[Guest martin]

It's GPRS on the 2G network that is causing the problem. It's going to struggle to sustain 48kbps streaming. EDGE or 3G offer higher data rates for GPRS.

You could always use your PC connection for streaming to the SPV although this only works when sitting next to the PC :lol:

[Guest Confused Stu]

As someone said earlier, bluetooth connection to PC = walking round the house listening to radio walkman-style for free. :lol:

As someone else also said earlier - why not just buy a cheap radio or walkman? :(