A couple of questions......

[Guest Dr Who]

I was trying to listen to the cricket the other day using my SPV E100 via the BBC website but couldn't get the radio player on the website to work. After a bit of thinking I figured the radio player is using Real Audio to stream the broadcast. Are there any apps out there that will allow me to listen to a streaming braodcast. On a related note anyone know how much data is being transferred when player is showing 30kbps? Or 46kbps? Just wondering how much it would eat into my GPRS bundle......

On a different tack, what do I need to know about ebooks? Never really looked into it. Having had a look through the forums found links to a couple of free ebook sites. Which format would you recommend? Which reader? Should I just stick to .txt and a text reader? Did find this post, (sorry lost URL)

"Opps forgot to answer the top question. Speed Reader Plus can read any file that can be viewed with a document viewer (like word) that supports copy and paste. Just use the Library Utility (installed on your PC) to copy and send the file to your phone for reading. This way you can read document like Word, PDF, Excel, TXT, and from the internet by copying document like ebooks from Internet Explorer. I hope that helps with file types. The Library Utility is also very fast so it only takes a few seconds to send entire books to the phone. "

What is the 'Library Utility'? Is it packaged with Speed Reader Plus or is it a seperate app?

Hope you good folks can help.

Dr, Who?

[Guest zeta101]

You can listen to streaming radio if its in the .asx format (this is MS own format i assume) as mentioned here:

http://www.jenneth.info/archives/000290.html

I havent heard about a real program, i dont know if anyone would be allowed to make one except real themselves, in which case drop them an email and see if they are going to ever consider making a smartphone version.

In anycase, streaming audio would eat your gprs *really* fast, so i wouldnt recommend it at all.