[gui-talk] The WRN Website

[Mike Freeman]

I was able to get the stream thru http://www.RadioTime.com (a great site) 
but would still appreciate pointers navigating the WRN site directly.

Mike

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Mike Freeman" <k7uij at panix.com>
To: "NFBnet GUI Talk Mailing List" <gui-talk at nfbnet.org>
Sent: Thursday, December 31, 2009 4:16 PM
Subject: [gui-talk] The WRN Website


> Greetings, everyone.
>
> Has anyone been able to successfully navigagte and use the World Radio 
> Network (WRN) website lately? It's at http://www.wrn.org and has live 
> streams of many international broadcasters. Many moons ago, one could 
> listen to live streams for North America, Asia, Europe and Africa using 
> stand-alone players for Windows Media and Real Audio formats. No more. Now 
> there's one of those blasted players (presumably using Flash) and one is 
> still supposed to be able to select the stream of one's choice. However, I 
> have only once been able to click to a place where the North American 
> stream played live and when I saved the link, I got a 404 error the next 
> time I tried to access it directly. Why is it that folks think it's an 
> advance to have to click through a dozen links to get where one wants? I 
> want to look thru at most *one* menu, select the stream of my choice and 
> with one keystroke, fire it up! Ah, illusion.
>
> Any help is appreciated.
>
> Mike Freeman
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