Gary Let me attempt to explain why your attempt to play wzzr in WMP had to fail. WZZR (and many other Clear Channel family stations) use what is known as the CC Tuner. The CC tuner is what is known as an embedded player meaning it is a small plugin that seamlessly works with another player, in this case, Windows Media Player. While it may not be readily apparent, this set up potentially has benefits for both sides of the equation including being able to deliver to you talk show names and guests, song titles, news headlines, whatever. However, for the stream to work, the path must go through that tuner plugin which, by attempting to load the stream url into WMP, apparently bypasses. On the other hand, launching the stream from the run dialog or your IE Favorites, apparently, in the CC Tuner case, works fine.
What I would urge anyone who encounters one of these broken links to do is use the databases' feedback mechanism to report the error. I've, as an example, reported a bunch of these over the last week to the support crew at radiotime.com, and they're repairing them quickly as folks point these out to them. On the Streamingradioguide.com listings, you will see the most recent date on which the stream was validated. Streamingradioguide.com appears to have a program in place which checks streams to see if they're still operative. MikesRadioWorld also seems to be on top of the situation. That's why, at the moment, these are my 3 top choices for streams. And as has been said before, anyone who attempts to maintain links for their own use well knows, links do often change and uncovering broken links is part of the expectation. One bit of irony in this, I began working with streaming radio in 2000 or so. The first link was Wgn Chicago which still works; the 2nd one was WMBI-FM Chicago which worked until early this year when the Moody owned stations switched to BarnabasRoad.com for their audio feeds. Audio List Help, Guidelines, Archives and more... http://www.pc-audio.org To unsubscribe from this list, send a blank email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
