Escient MP-150 manual Adding New Internet Radio Stations, Locate New Stations, Examples

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Adding New Internet Radio Stations

ADDING INTERNET RADIO STATIONS WD010-1-2 12/22/2003

Adding New Internet Radio Stations

Your FireBall is able to deliver a variety of Internet radio station programming through its connection to the Internet. Escient’s OpenGlobe Internet radio service provides a large variety of stations including Radio Free Virgin and various other stations from across the country. These stations can be selected for playback in the Radio Guide view.

In order to increase your listening enjoyment, FireBall also allows you to add new Internet Radio to the Radio Guide for playback. The FireBall will tune stations that broadcast in the Microsoft WMA V2, V7 and V8 formats at bit rates up to 192kpbs. A complete list of the supported bit rates is listed in Appendix A. The procedure below will give you some examples of how to find new stations and add them to the Radio Guide.

Locate New Stations

Internet Radio is a fairly new form of radio broadcasting which all terrestrial radio stations have not yet adopted. Please keep in mind that the station you are interested in may not broadcast over the Internet, or it may use a proprietary interface only accessible from a PC. You can locate Internet radio stations using various Internet Radio web sites that can be accessed

using the Internet Browser on a PC. One example is Radio-Locator. Simply, go to http://www.radio-locator.com and type in the station call letters, zip code, State code,

Genre, or Country in the fields provided and press GO. The radio locator will return information about the station or the area that you requested. Click on the (i) icon in order to find the detailed information about the specific station. From the Information page, the radio locator will list an Internet address for the Audio Stream location. If this address ends with a

.asx or .asf file extension, then the FireBall may be able to playback this station.

Examples:

WSM-AM 650 kHz

Nashville, Tennessee

“America’s Country Music Station”

Audio Feed: mms://mmslb.eonstreams.com/wsmam1.asf

KFOG-FM 104.5 MHz

San Francisco, California

“K-Fog Worldclassrock 104.5”

Audio Feed: http://www.streamaudio.com/stations/asx/kfog_fm.asx

Add The Stations To The Guide

While in the Radio mode, press the Menu button on the remote, and select “New Station” from the list of options. When prompted as to what station you would like to add, select “Internet”. Using the remote control or a USB keyboard, type in the information about the station in the fields provided. The Audio Feed information goes into the field titled “URL”. Once completed, press the record button to save this information. Your new radio station is now available to select in the Radio Guide!

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Escient MP-150 manual Adding New Internet Radio Stations, Locate New Stations, Add The Stations To The Guide, Examples