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Is there a reason that with XP and WMP 11 certain radio stations will not

play? Can anyone help?


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On Sun, 9 Sep 2007 15:50:03 -0700, TP <TP@discussions.microsoft.com>

wrote:





I don't think media player supports most shoutcast stations. Is there

a specific station you had in mind ? For example. what happens with

the windows media streams on www.somafm.com ?



Cheers - Neil

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Digital Media MVP : 2004-2007

mvp.support.microsoft.com/mvpfaqs" >mvp.support.microsoft.com/mvpfaqs

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That link won't work. There were a few international stations for ex.

www.live24.gr/radio/supersportfm" >www.live24.gr/radio/supersportfm that used to play with WMP 10. I

downloaded a bunch of codecs and I got it to work. I don't know why there is

such a discrepancy b/w 10 and 11



"Neil Smith [MVP Digital Media]" wrote:

Sorry, I can't see any specific examples of radio on the page URL you

gave below. Please give an exact URL copied from your browser address

bar where a radio station which used to play no longer does.



I'll check the page and content it's returning and get back to you.



Cheers - Neil



On Mon, 10 Sep 2007 19:20:02 -0700, TP <TP@discussions.microsoft.com>

wrote:



Digital Media MVP : 2004-2007

mvp.support.microsoft.com/mvpfaqs" >mvp.support.microsoft.com/mvpfaqs

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Sorry the link is www.live24.gr/radio/sportfm.jsp" >www.live24.gr/radio/sportfm.jsp



"Neil Smith [MVP Digital Media]" wrote:

Hmm it was because I was viewing it in Firefox. Their page code is

broken and it doesn't display any media player in FF (though it does

in IE browser).



The link to the content there is mms://sportfm.live24.gr/sportfm7712



In WMP11, mms links like that above no longer work (the support for

that was removed starting with WMP9). Content providers are supposed

to have updated their sites in the last 5 years to take this into

account, but many haven't (or don't know how to).





You could try this link directly : With media player open, press CTRL

+ M keys, to show the menus. Then go to File ->Open URL and paste



sportfm.live24.gr/sportfm7712" >sportfm.live24.gr/sportfm7712





That should work. If it doesn't it could be because it's WMA mono.

There's a specific bug in some configurations of AC3 Filter, which is

used for DVD audio playback where it kills the mono audio in WMP11



In that case, the steps on this page should get the audio working :

www.w3exchange.com/t674-3-a-b...wmp-91011.html" >www.w3exchange.com/t674-3-a-b...wmp-91011.html



That may be the cause of other radio not working too (if it's WMA

mono) and the mms link could still be the other cause on many other

web pages.





HTH

Cheers - Neil



On Tue, 11 Sep 2007 16:00:01 -0700, TP <TP@discussions.microsoft.com>

wrote:



Digital Media MVP : 2004-2007

mvp.support.microsoft.com/mvpfaqs" >mvp.support.microsoft.com/mvpfaqs

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