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Howdy and thanks for your interest in listening to WNMC! As of January 23, 2009, WNMC has moved it's stream away from Live365 and to Audio Realm and that may mean that things will work a bit differently on your end of things. For most folks, the transition will be pretty seamless. But depending on your computer configuration, there may be a few complications. I'll be posting some tips here to try to get you past what hurdles this change may throw in your way. If you are having problems and don't want to be bothered with fooling around with Windows, Click Here to go to our embedded player. For those who'd like to use their own player . . . Case One: Internet Explorer says it "cannot open" listen.pls (the stream file).This may happen with computers that have not been used very much for music and video playing. The easy solution to this is rather than trying to open the listen link through Explorer, copy it (right click the link: copy link location) and then paste it into a media player like Itunes or winamp or QuickTime. Then just use this program directly henceforth. The above didn't work for me! If you have a media player (Real, winamp, media monkey, Itunes. . . most anything other than Windows Media Player) you can use . . . Open "My Documents" In the Tools menu, select Folder Options Click on the File Types tab. See if PLS is in the list. If so, select it and change the associated program to media program in question (you might have to browse & find it in Program Files). If not hit the NEW button, create a new extension PLS and save it. Then "Change" that entry and associate it with your media program (choose program from list and browse through program files). OK through the menus and restart your browser and it should launch the new app once you hit the link. Windows Media Player Windows Media Player often doesn't seem to recognize .pls files(Microsoft has a competing format) but it can be forced to recognizeour .pls file. So . . . If you REALLY want to use WMP. . .
you'd have to run a third-party program which I believe is fine (I've seen it recommended in several places and used it myself) BUT I don't have the knowledge or expertise to vouch for it. That said: You can use Windows media player if you want by downloading and installing the program here: http://www.codeplex.com/openplsinwmp and then aim PLS files at that program (OpenPLSinWMP--see below), which will then send the stream along to Windows Media PLayer. To assign PLS to that program Open up your My Documents folder . . . In the Tools menu, select Folder Options Click on the File Types tab. See if PLS is in the list. If so, select it and change the associated program to OpenPLSinWMP. If not hit the NEW button, and associate PLS with OpenPLSinWMP (You'll have to choose the program from a list) Say OK, yadda yadda and next time you click on the pls link it'll ask you how to open: aim it toward OpenPLSinWMP and the stream should open in Windows Media Player.
If what's here so far doesn't seem to help, write to Eric. Hopefully we'll be able to figure out your problem quickly and add it to the list of solvable problems above.
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