Real Audio Internet Radio Links (or whatever)

This page was created when Real Audio's Realplayer was king. That time is past. Links below may work or not depending on whether they're still live and format and however your browser is configured for whatever. Streaming audio is one area that seems to be getting worse, not better at time of writing.

24 Hour Stations

Air America Radio Note: The American left's answer to right wing radio.
BBC World Service
KPFA Berkeley Note: Streaming mp3 format, may not work unless you have your browser configured to support it. Listener supported radio from Berkeley, California.
National Public Radio (NPR) Note: The major public radio station in the United States
Radio Australia
WBAI Note: Listener supported radio in New York City

Precanned Stations

Prerecorded, limited duration, but seems more reliable than live stations.

Instructions for Mozilla/Netscape

Actually, these instructions are for Mozilla, but since recent versions of Netscape are based on Mozilla, they should be the same. And if you're using an old version of Netscape (4.7x or older), for goodness sake upgrade!!!. I don't use Internet Explorer (IE) routinely, so if there are problems with it or fixes or whatever, let me know and I'll post any useful info I get here.

First thing, you'll need Real Player installed. You can get it from their site: Real Audio .

(The info below was for the old mozilla. Firefox is easier, just Edit->Preferences->Applications, scroll down to the ra formats and use the drop down to select realplay)

Then in Mozilla go to Edit->Preferences->Navigator->Helper Applications

If there isn't already an entry for audio/x-pn-realaudio you'll need to add one. Click on 'New Type...'. Here's the info you'll need:

Description of type: Real Media
File extension: RM RAM RA
MIME type: audio/x-pn-realaudio
Application to use: /usr/X11R6/bin/realplay

Note that the path to the application may be different on your system. But there's a browse button you can poke around looking for it with, or use whatever 'find' facility your platform has (from the command line in *NIX, as root, find / -name realplay)

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