HD2 and Online Radios

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I'm not able to listen to online radios which I was able to do with my old T-Mobile Wing. What do I need to do?

Originally Posted by tuss

I'm not able to listen to online radios which I was able to do with my old T-Mobile Wing. What do I need to do?

You mean like Slacker? What exactly can't you do? (sound not coming out, no connection, etc)?

Originally Posted by egzthunder1

You mean like Slacker? What exactly can't you do? (sound not coming out, no connection, etc)?

The website of online radios doesn't display correctly.It says something like this page is formatted by google. Do I need a flash player or something?

You should have a program called slacker on your phone

Originally Posted by tuss

The website of online radios doesn't display correctly.It says something like this page is formatted by google. Do I need a flash player or something?

what's the exact url of the site? and which browser did you use on your phone to access it?

As far as stopping Google from formatting your pages, do this:

• Open opera and perform a google search
• Scroll to the bottom of the search results and look for the link called "Settings"
• (You may have to zoom in to click the link)
• Under "Format web pages for your phone", click "Off"
• (I also click "Off on "SafeSearch" and "Save Recent Locations")

Voila, all webpages will now be formatted via opera instead of Google.

Originally Posted by sirphunkee

what's the exact url of the site? and which browser did you use on your phone to access it?

Unfortunately, I am not allowed to post URLs, but I use Opera. I got rid of that Google formatting, but there is still no sound. It looks like Windows Media Player plug-in for Opera is missing. How to get it?

Originally Posted by tuss

Unfortunately, I am not allowed to post URLs, but I use Opera. I got rid of that Google formatting, but there is still no sound. It looks like Windows Media Player plug-in for Opera is missing. How to get it?

Ok, I got the URL you PM'd (http://local.trio.ee/ot/mp3/mp3player/elmarwmp.html) and opened it in my desktop browser first. It did just open a WMP plugin and started an mp3 stream, but it took quite a while to buffer at first, and kept needing to pause and re-buffer every minute or so...so it looks like the feed isn't that stable to begin with.

Now, I tried opening that url directly in WMP on the phone, and it wouldn't play it...it started to open, then just gave an "error has occured" message and wouldn't play it. So, even if there is a 'wmp plugin' for opera (I've never seen one), it probably wouldn't help in this case since the onboard WMP doesn't seem capable of playing it anyway.

Some of the other common media players (TCPMP/Coreplayer, nitrogen, etc) might be able to open that url and play the stream, but I don't have any on hand right now to test. Each of them has an option to "open URL", just find that and put that address in and see if they can do it any better.


EDIT: The stream that the player at that URL starts is this: http://striiming.trio.ee:8008/elmar....mar&format=mp3. I tried that in WMP as well, it said the file was corrupt or in a format it couldn't play. Opera offered to open the file, and did play the music, but it only played the current track being streamed (that stream seems to serve up a rotation of ~3MB mp3's) once it finished downloading the whole mp3.

Originally Posted by sirphunkee

Ok, I got the URL you PM'd and opened it in my desktop browser first. It did just open a WMP plugin and started an mp3 stream, but it took quite a while to buffer at first, and kept needing to pause and re-buffer every minute or so...so it looks like the feed isn't that stable to begin with.

Desktop browser? What is that?

Originally Posted by tuss

Desktop browser? What is that?

He meant he used his Desktop computer before he tested on his phone. Lol