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http://keesan.freeshell.org/bl/classrad.tgz

For any linux with either mplayer or mpg123, to listen to online radio 
broadcasts in mp3 format.  Mplayer also does wma (.asf, .asx) and ogg
and playlists (.pls).  You may need to add cook.so codec for realplayer.

Mostly 24 kbit/sec, a few each 20 and 32kbit, for dialup access.
About 20 stations that play classical music, some also jazz or NPR news,
which worked today but may be busy once in a while.

Unzip to some place on the path such as /user/local/bin.  Contains a 
script 'rad' that lets you type the number of a webcasting station, and 
the scripts used by this main script, which require mplayer (also at my 
site, mplayer4.tgz, no dependencies).  Scripts ending in 'm' need mplayer, 
the others work with mpg123 but don't have much of a buffer so don't sound 
as good.

About 20 classical stations, mostly US, on each Australia, New Zealand, 
Turkey, Peru.  Please contribute others from Europe (where everything I 
found was either talk or too fast).  I listed the broadcast rate 
(kbit/sec) and the KHz (recording quality).  Some stations start with 
8KHz introductory messages that sound like they are underwater.

128KHz is supposed to be near FM quality, but the 22Khz of most of these 
stations sounds better to me than most of the FM I hear from our nearest 
classical stations (50-75 miles from here).  24 kbit/sec lets you type 
email while listening, 32 does not (using 56 modem at 40 or so actual 
connection speed).

The 32KHz stations (32kbit/sec) cut out more.  They are at the end of the 
list.

I have lynx.cfg set to use mplayer, but it won't work at mms:// sites, for 
which you need mplayer directly.  .pls sites need -playlist but in most 
cases I managed to find a direct link to the mp3 file.

Mplayer will also play webcast TV programs.  See the archives for a list 
of low bandwidth ones that display in 3" diagonal 'screen'.
And DVD movies.  What else will it do?

Let it snow. (We got nearly half a meter in the last couple days).

Sindi

keesan AT sdf.lonestar.org
SDF Public Access UNIX System - http://sdf.lonestar.org