hi. WQXR is not an xm station. They do their own content and don't rebroadcast stuff, accept for news channels and some sports.
At 11:35 AM 10/10/2005, you wrote: >Dana, >Hmm, I didn't know that WQXR was one of the XM choices. Maybe i'll try to >find that, though i'm still not real good at pasting in URL's to the Winamp >address bar or whatever it's called. For this station maybe I'll just stick >to the regular radio, lol. Of course, maybe there's a variant of >www.wqxr.com, but no, that's probably too simple, right? nothing like a >little wishful thinking. > >Thanks for your response. I'm still not sure I understand whether this XM >or AOL content is free or not and under what conditions. it's frustrating >to have to register for things before you know what you are agreeing to, and >then of course there's the chance it won't work. Oh well, no such thing as >a free radio station or something, lol. > >Susan > >----- Original Message ----- >From: "Dana S. Leslie" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >To: "PC audio discussion list. " <Pc-audio@pc-audio.org> >Sent: Monday, October 10, 2005 12:25 PM >Subject: Re: winamp problem > > > > Susan, > > > > Well, I don't fully understand it, either. but, when Winamp 5.1 was > > released, a couple of months ago, there was a new subsection in the Online > > Streams section of the Library, where you could find AOL with XM streams. > > I > > found a stream in there for WQXR, the New York Times' classical music > > station. I bookmarked it, and I was able to copy the URL from the edit > > bookmarks dialogue to my web page. The stream still plays fine, whether I > > use the bookmark or the link I created on my web page. but, apparently, > > several of us, at least, can no longer find this section of the Winamp > > library. Actually, just at the moment, I'm having trouble navigating the > > library, at all. Ever since 5.1 was introduce, JAWS would continually lose > > focus as one tabbed away from the main treeview in the library, and then > > tried to get back to it. One would have to use the JAWS cursor to find the > > items on the treevew, then click on them and route pc to JAWS. Bt, just > > since this morning, I can't even find the treeview. something is VERY > > screwed up! I'll have to get a sighted person to take a look, tomorrow. > > > > If you're interested, here is the URL I found for WQXR, it's very long and > > very ugly, and you have to get it all into Winamp's location bar, until > > you > > bookmark it. But I still have no idea how the URL is structured, or how it > > might help you to infer the URLs of other Xm streams that will play in > > Winamp: > > > uvox://64.236.34.107:5190/stream/13270?auth_token=r%3D2113823%26sid%3D12770%26expires%3D1126760580065%26csum%3D2cd01f29f7b603749d5c100cdf2f2429&uid=WA-287F2030C25141DC83537812639D1992&sessid=29D12D3CCEFB4A27A0B2D4ED5D8FFB58 > > > > ----- Original Message ----- > > From: "Susan Wojtecki" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > To: "PC audio discussion list. " <Pc-audio@pc-audio.org> > > Sent: Monday, October 10, 2005 11:46 AM > > Subject: Re: winamp problem > > > > > >> Gail and Dana, > >> I'm a little confused as to the relationship between the XM stations and > >> AOL > >> and the player through which they are accessed. I mean, I was under the > >> impression that those with an XM account could only play the streams > >> through > >> Windows Media. I had an account but canceled it since I found I had long > >> buffering times on many occasions and sometimes couldn't seem to access > >> streams at all, though maybe I didn't try long or hard enough to solve > >> this > >> problem. Bottom line was that I couldn't see paying for a service I > >> wasn't > >> able to access. > >> > >> > >> However, after they did this deal with AOL this summer, I tried to find > >> out > >> how it worked but couldn't get definitive information. I assume that > >> they > >> want you to download an AOL player which you pay for? Does this mean > >> that > >> AOL takes over your ISP? I have good cable service and this is not > >> something I'd want to have happen. Dana, are you saying that there is a > >> way > >> to use Winamp as the player of choice listening to these streams? That > >> would seem to be ideal for me since I think the buffering problems I had > >> are > >> somehow related to WMP 10 though am not completely certain. Would > >> appreciate if you or other good folks could clarify, lol, i'm definitely > >> confused. > >> > >> Susan > >> > >> ----- Original Message ----- > >> From: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > >> To: <Pc-audio@pc-audio.org> > >> Sent: Sunday, October 09, 2005 10:16 PM > >> Subject: Re: winamp problem > >> > >> > >>> Ah, I stand corrected. Since I use the AOL service for my ISP, it is > >>> easy > >>> for > >>> me to go to AOL radio on their main screen, so I didn't look for that > >>> feature > >>> in the Winamp library. But Winamp probably doesn't have all the AOL > >>> radio > >>> features. If I know AOL, they're probably using it as an advertising > >>> ploy > >>> to > >>> convince more people to switch to their full service. I like their > >>> service > >>> but I > >>> wouldn't try to talk anyone into switching just because of their radio > >>> feature. > >>> > >>> Gail > >>> _______________________________________________ > >>> PC-Audio List Help, Guidelines, Archives and more... > >>> http://www.pc-audio.org > >>> > >>> To unsubscribe from this list, send a blank email to: > >>> [EMAIL PROTECTED] > >>> > >>> This list is a service of MosenExplosion.com. 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