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We often broadcast in Ogg Vorbis format. Your normal, default media player may not support this, so we suggest that you download one of the following free players for your platform:
Windows
We suggest you download and install the illiminable Ogg Directshow filters to enable support for Ogg in Windows Media Player. If iTunes is your favourite player then try installing the Xiph Plug-in for Quick Time. Finally there's some good alternative free players available for Windows, such as WinAmp and VLC Player.
Mac OS X
We suggest you download and install the Xiph Plug-in for Quick Time which will enable Ogg support in iTunes. Alternatively you might like to try a free software player such as VLC, Whamb or MPlayer OS X.
Linux
Linux comes with loads of free players installed, including XMMS, MPlayer, Xine, FreeAmp, VLC or Helix Player.
Once you have an audio player installed you will need to point it at the stream you wish to listen to. Do this by using "open URL", "play location", "open sequence" or "open web location" or using the address bar if it has one. You will need to provide it with a full URL to the stream. So type or copy and paste in the URL, it will look something like this: http://live1.radiovague.com:8000/resonancefm.ogg.
You can also visit our streaming server's status at any time page and if there are any streams available, click on the link for that stream. The status pages can be found at:
This will open an .m3u file, which contains meta information about the stream. One problem you may experience is that it opens your default player, which may not support Ogg Vorbis. So you may have to drag the link onto the player that you do wish to use. If in doubt, use the manual method described above.
The following text has been translated using proprietary software:
The Ogg Vorbis open, free audio platform is one that reportedly better with compression than MP3 and, more importantly, is completely open source software, allowing for licence-free use and development of Ogg Vorbis based tools. All well and good I hear you say? Well yes, but there is a draw-back: not all players, especially the more commerical ones that come with your computer by default support Ogg. Hence the need for the instructions above.
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