Steel Radio without download?

Dale Bessant · Post by **Dale Bessant** » 3 Sep 2006 7:57 am

Is there a way I can listen to Steel Radio without having to download there recommended player?Would like to hear some of the Convention today if possible.

Earnest Bovine · Post by **Earnest Bovine** » 3 Sep 2006 8:21 am

I don't know what player they recommend, but I use Winamp. Winamp is a free download.
In Winamp, go to "Play URL" and type or paste this:
http://steelradio.serverroom.us:8300/

Dale Bessant · Post by **Dale Bessant** » 3 Sep 2006 8:43 am

ok Thx., Earnest . i'll give it shot

Joe Law · Post by **Joe Law** » 3 Sep 2006 4:24 pm

Once you get to Steel Radio go to the Win Amp file menu and save it as a bookmark and you don't have to worry about it anymore ,just open the bookmark.

Jack Stoner · Post by **Jack Stoner** » 4 Sep 2006 1:45 am

There were a lot of dropouts and buffering this weekend on Steel Radio, even on a high speed cable link.

Don't know if it's the server they use or the bandwidth of the server links.

One thing that doesn't seem right is it was announced that 1 million, at one point, were logged on to Steel Radio. I would have to challenge that. It may be 1 million were logged on to the server, which has other "radio" sites but not just to the Steel Radio.

Wiz Feinberg · Post by **Wiz Feinberg** » 4 Sep 2006 8:36 am

I use Media Player Classic with the advanced K-Lite Codec pack to listen to .pl (playlist) files.

Documentation about Media Player Classic

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Jeff Agnew · Post by **Jeff Agnew** » 5 Sep 2006 4:26 am

I'm with you, Jack. I don't know what they're using to determine those listener figures but they seem way out of whack. Last year, I believe they claimed +400K and I don't buy that one either.

Also, with all the buffering going on, I'd bet lots of folks hit the servers multiple times each just to get a stable stream. That would be several hits in server logs per user, but it's not the same as unique listeners.

Jack Stoner · Post by **Jack Stoner** » 5 Sep 2006 5:19 am

Jeff, as much as we like to think the Steel Guitar is popular, I would suspect 1000 total may even be too many.

Jeff Agnew · Post by **Jeff Agnew** » 7 Sep 2006 5:00 am

Reluctantly, I posted some Arbitron listener figures over in the SteelRadio forum for comparison. I say "reluctantly" because I truly don't mean to criticize what they do. It's a great service to our community. But I think they've been given some bogus info by some techie folks who should know better.

There is a lot of jargon and lots of numbers being thrown around but, viewed in isolation, they're useless without proper interpretation.

Charlie C Harrison · Post by **Charlie C Harrison** » 7 Sep 2006 5:50 am

Sure was A disaster here. I had dial up last year, It did much better. I now have
dsl I couldn,t here one song all the way through No I don't believe those numbers.I,m sure radio is like the steel shows, 95% of the people are musician.

Jack Stoner · Post by **Jack Stoner** » 7 Sep 2006 6:14 am

One issue that affected the broadcast is that the server is apparently in the NYC area and they were having weather related issues. However, any decent server site, especially one that is selling time on their servers, would have better reliability and have emergency power and communications "pipes" (lines) that are on alternate paths to avoid service interruptions. Some even have a "hot site" backup site that they can bring on line if needed because of whatever problems at the main server site.

(Edited for those damned typos) [This message was edited by Jack Stoner on 07 September 2006 at 08:37 AM.]

b0b · Post by **b0b** » 8 Sep 2006 12:27 pm

Moved to Steel Radio section of the Forum