Was home visiting briefly. While i liked the musical variety and would continue to tune in, the on air personalities (station IDs, solicitations, etc.) are not up to standards even for "community radio". If you want people to keep listening, you must not embarrass them with your amaturism.
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I have so much respect for you opinion! You must be a superjock!
Bruce Quinn rocks. He is one of my best friends and would do anything to help anyone. Not too many people, like him, left.
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I hear WHUM is looking to expand and Bruce wants back on the air in Indianapolis. Perhaps Jeff should donate 1070 for a WHUM relay. Meanwhile, I have to listen to this internet stream.
mms://whum-live.dyndns.org:8000
mms://whum-live.dyndns.org:8000
That link won't play in Winamp and transfers to M&M's website on Firefox. What are you listening to that link with?
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I'm sorry. I guess one must copy and paste this address into a media player.
mms://WHUM-Live.dyndns.org:8000
mms instructs your computer to open Windows Media Player. So, you should also be able to paste the address into your browser and play the stream.
mms://WHUM-Live.dyndns.org:8000
mms instructs your computer to open Windows Media Player. So, you should also be able to paste the address into your browser and play the stream.
I browse this discussion site using Firefox. Clicking on the link took me to never-never land.
I copied the mms://WHUM-live-dyndns.org:8000 into MSFT Internet Explorer and it works like a champ.
I never do media in Firefox so I am assuming I have just never set up the proper associations and permissions.
AFTERTHOUGHT- Why am I using Firefox for the RadioDiscussions.com site and use it almost for nothing else? Those of you who are more humane than I and write short, short messages here don't know about a problem IE has. For people like me who sometimes write book-length entries here find that once what you are typing fills up the little box into which we type (I have two more lines available right now before the box if full) the text suddenly begins to look like it is playing on a trampoline while you type. Using Firefox solves problem.
I copied the mms://WHUM-live-dyndns.org:8000 into MSFT Internet Explorer and it works like a champ.
I never do media in Firefox so I am assuming I have just never set up the proper associations and permissions.
AFTERTHOUGHT- Why am I using Firefox for the RadioDiscussions.com site and use it almost for nothing else? Those of you who are more humane than I and write short, short messages here don't know about a problem IE has. For people like me who sometimes write book-length entries here find that once what you are typing fills up the little box into which we type (I have two more lines available right now before the box if full) the text suddenly begins to look like it is playing on a trampoline while you type. Using Firefox solves problem.
Hey, dfwrunner... on one of those trips back home to Indiana, make it a point to meet up with Bruce. I have breezed back through Indiana only once since discovering WHUM and it was a funeral trip with no time for a stop-off.
He and I have had multiple phone conversations.
He and I share a hero who gave both of us "a leg up" in doing this thing called broadcasting.
And if I get involved in an application in the next Application Window.... Bruce's operation is on my list of people and places to visit to make sure we understand what this LPFM thing is all about.
The FCC published a study of LPFM in recent months which was produced for them to help shape the future of LPFM and the planned Application Window which is coming up. I need to pull that report up and read it again but the number that really reached out to me was the fact that virtually all LPFM stations operate on a budge of less than $20,000 per year.
I don't care how skilled you are and how much experience you have in producing good sound, if you have an operation that is limited to $8,000, maybe $11,000, maybe $16,000 per year, you probably won't sound quite like something from Dallas or Chicago or Atlanta or Boston. And you know what? That's a good thing. LPFM was designed to sound like it is originating in Podunk or an ethnic neighborhood in a city or some other community that does not get whatever it needs from traditional broadcasting.
He and I have had multiple phone conversations.
He and I share a hero who gave both of us "a leg up" in doing this thing called broadcasting.
And if I get involved in an application in the next Application Window.... Bruce's operation is on my list of people and places to visit to make sure we understand what this LPFM thing is all about.
The FCC published a study of LPFM in recent months which was produced for them to help shape the future of LPFM and the planned Application Window which is coming up. I need to pull that report up and read it again but the number that really reached out to me was the fact that virtually all LPFM stations operate on a budge of less than $20,000 per year.
I don't care how skilled you are and how much experience you have in producing good sound, if you have an operation that is limited to $8,000, maybe $11,000, maybe $16,000 per year, you probably won't sound quite like something from Dallas or Chicago or Atlanta or Boston. And you know what? That's a good thing. LPFM was designed to sound like it is originating in Podunk or an ethnic neighborhood in a city or some other community that does not get whatever it needs from traditional broadcasting.
Windows Media Server cannot connect to the server is what I got when pasting mms://WHUM-live-dyndns.org:8000 into IE.Goat Rodeo Cowboy said:
I have Real Player set up to be available in IE but do not have it set up to be available in Firefox.BobOnTheJob said:
Maybe someone else knows a work-around that allows the mms protocol to work in something other than Real Player.
I was not trying to say that IE would work (for you and others) while Firefox browsing will not work. It is apparently Windows Media Player that does not like the link.
Radio stations are "shooting themselves in the foot" by not having info available on their website right next to where they have the button that says: "Click here to listen on line". I cannot estimate the number of times these links have failed for me, and the number of hours I have wasted trying to make a "Click here to Listen" work. You can e-mail these stations and tell them of your difficulty, and if they reply, it is likely to be: I don't understand. It works for me!
I hear there is a war for ears going on out there. The Internet Streamers are convinced they will eventually beat radio at it's own game and over-the-air radio will fade away. If radio does not get it's head out of it's collecting rear end and start getting civilians off the street to try their link while someone from the station watches, radio will never understand that potential audience is walking away from websites that have "Click Here to Listen" links that only work for really adventurous computer nerds, and that could be the death of radio as we know it.
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I'm listening to WHUM from out of the area so I use the stream. In 6 years of listening, I've never had a problem. However, I'm not using VISTA and I don't have several players installed on my computer.
WHUM sounds great on the internet and I hope to see them expand and get more radio signals.And, I hear some of their biggest donors listen in New York City on the internet.
WHUM sounds great on the internet and I hope to see them expand and get more radio signals.And, I hear some of their biggest donors listen in New York City on the internet.
I can't tell you specifically who is listening to AM in Indianapolis, but on 1070 alone, roughly 3 of every 100 listeners are. That's not bad considering that the most popular FM stations only have 3 times that many.Lionheart said:
I listen to WHUM with a little piece of software called XMPlay. It can handle streams of MP3, Windows Media, and Real Networks. Aside from the fact XMPlay seldom drops a stream, it has a built-in equalizer and accommodates Winamp plug-ins, as I am totally addicted to the Bobware Stereo Delay Module 2.0 (Delay=20.0ms; Crossover=33.0%; Delayed Amplification=20.0%). Plug that into some Henry Kloss speakers and I dare ya to try and leave the room.
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