[robg adds: This works as described, though you may have to drag the file onto Windows Media Player to make it open with that application.]
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Here's how I got Bloomberg Radio working on my Mac. First, download and install both Windows Media Player for Mac OSX and Flip4Mac from this page on Microsoft's site. Then create the following file, and name it Bloomberg_Radio.asf:
Save the file, quit the editor, and then double-click the saved file -- you should soon be listening to Bloomberg Radio.
[robg adds: This works as described, though you may have to drag the file onto Windows Media Player to make it open with that application.]
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Listen to Bloomberg Radio via Windows Media Player
Forgive me for my lack of understanding. Create the file with which application?
Listen to Bloomberg Radio via Windows Media Player
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Listen to Bloomberg Radio via Windows Media Player
Just copy the text into TextEdit and save.
Listen to Bloomberg Radio via Windows Media Player
Thanks for the hint. Does this work for *any* radio that has a Web site? If so what and how do I modify your program? I guess it's the akamaistream part, but I know nothing about it, so you'll need to hold me by the hand ;-)
Listen to Bloomberg Radio in ... VLC instead !
Bloomberg's link works right away in VLC
Listen to Bloomberg Radio in ... VLC instead !
I agree with using VLC instead... however when I try it doesn't work.
Listen to Bloomberg Radio via Windows Media Player
WMP has long since been abandoned by MS, and I don't like the idea of installing it on my Mac. If Flip4Mac doesn't just play the content right away, then it must be something I don't need to hear. Yikes! exactly....with a picture of Ann Coulter on the home page of Bloomberg, I have further reason to pass this one by.
If VLC, then how? PLUS: Batteries Included
The trick is not to use the original installer. All you need is the Windows Media Player.app, you very much want to avoid the old components as they'll likely mean no end of trouble. Once you've acquired the stand-alone player, it will use Flip4Mac to translate the data stream.
To make the task of getting just the player without the installer a tad simpler. I've uploaded it so that you can download it using this short address: http://snipr.com/2x50r-fmueb8 This topic's .asf is also included in the folder. Please get it now as I don't know how long I'll have it here to offer. As for using VLC; That was my first thought coming upon and reading this hint, and, as we have Flip4Mac, why not Quicktime, or even iTunes? Yet and since, I'm left to wonder if this has been done successfully on anyones OS X? I've tried it on two older G3s and a G4 MMD FW800 all three running Tiger, as well as a MacBook Pro w/Leopard, in all cases with the latest VLC, and none of them will do it. I sometimes think I've every QT component in the known Mac universe, so unless that's the problem, it would seem I'd be well covered to succeed in those attempts. No, not here. I'd love to know how you got VLC to work. In the meantime; WMP, thanks to Rossetta on the Intel, works fine on all of them, and its mini player window mode, for all its retro charm, is ideal for this sort if thing. And as for paranoias, there's not much havoc it can raise without the parts you will no longer need to install. Enjoy P.S. There's lots of World news there too, and from a wide range of POVs. Blessedly for me I've yet to hear Ann Coulter, though now that you mention it…, that default mini player skin looks remarkably similar to some 1940's made-in-Berlin tabletop bakelite radios I've seen…
Listen to Bloomberg Radio via Windows Media Player
Radio station WBBR in New York airs the same audio stream as the Bloomberg website, except that it is so frequently interrupted with commercials that it is not much fun. WBBR can be accessed by a Mac using the Reciva radio website. I have Flip4Mac installed; I don't know if that is a necessary condition for it to work. |
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