Internet Streaming Audio Problem

[lexilis]

Recently I began to listen to an internet radio channel called jazz24.org (out of the US provides free streaming music). It uses the MS "Silverlight" audio player. Everything was fine and I enjoyed the content but suddenly the service died. The player locked up and now nothing. I reset everything several times and then deleted and then reinstalled the player. Still, nothing. The internet connection is OK, the web-page for the site loads fine and updates, but no audio stream. Anybody have a problem like this before? Possible solution? Thanks....

[siamect]

Not that it will help you, but I wouldn't touch MS Silverlight with a ten foot pole... the product is distributed only to lock out non MS browsers from websites

A customer lock-in thing...

Martin

[lexilis]

Thanks for the tip. I have been using Firefox for a long time but based on what you said tried the player in a MS Internet Explorer window and it works fine! I don't pretend to know a lot about this stuff but it appears that this Silverlight player forces you to use IE. At least now I know.

[vanheusden]

Try RarmaRadio and/or Winamp. RarmaRadio is a stand-alone application which even allows you to record the station selected in several audio formats. Truly awesome. Winamp does the same, after you install a free open source plugin called streamripper. Google for this plugin.

Both applications are great and readily available via several "torrents"

Hope this helps!