OT How to get National Public Radio FM on Rythmbox
William Case
billlinux at rogers.com
Sun Jun 22 21:46:06 UTC 2008
Hi Tom and all;
On Sun, 2008-06-22 at 13:08 -0400, tom wrote:
> On Sun, 22 Jun 2008, William Case wrote:
>
> > Hi all and thanks;
> >
> > On Sun, 2008-06-22 at 05:21 -0400, Matthew Saltzman wrote:
> >> On Sat, 2008-06-21 at 23:56 -0400, William Case wrote:
> >>> Hi -- particularly to my American friends.
> <<snip>>
> >> http://www.npr.org/audiohelp/progstream.html
> >>
> >> There's also a list of NPR stations at http://www.npr.org/stations/.
> >> You could stream any of those.
[snip]
> > Loved the car guys.
> >
>
> Its been a quarter century since I lived in northern new england, but as I
> remember Maine's NPR stations are all run pretty much as a single system.
> That said, NPR is a collection of diverse local stations, most of which
> their own programming. WFAE, one of my local outlets, runs to jazz and
> talk radio. WDAV, another local outlet with less NPR sourced material, is
> almost entirely classical (just a touch of news). The South Carolina
> outlet just to the south of here (Charlotte NC) has yet another flavor,
> but my reception is quite weak so I'm not sure what their mix is.
>
> If you liked the mix from Maine Public Broadcasting, you might want to
> search for them, as I have no clue what their various station call signs
> are. Otherwise, I'm afraid you have a manual search for something worth
> listening to.
>
> FWIW, the car guys are "Car Talk" if memory serves.
>
Spent the whole afternoon getting NPR running on Rythmbox. I was
overwhelmed by the logic and simplicity of it all. I wish the
developers would stop that.
--
Regards Bill;
Fedora 9, Gnome 2.22.2
Evo.2.22.2, Emacs 22.2.1
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