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On Mon, 7 Jan 2008, baslinux AT lists.ibiblio.org wrote:

> Message from Steven
> ===================
> Sindi wrote:
> > I cannot get bbc radio 3 to work.
>
> Nor I.
> It appears the BBC has stopped the low bandwidth stream.

Dumb.

> Do you have this one?  It's only 20kbps.
> Cultura Musical 100.3 FM
> http://200.69.253.116:83/cultura%2520musical?MSWMExt=.asf
>
> Cheers,
> Steven

Argentina.

It works (opera) but there is very loud background noise, worse than a 
72rpm record.  Maybe that is what they are playing right now?

http://delicast.com/radio/ lists stations by category or country and then 
by bandwidth.  Better with links than lynx.  'Classic' is classic rock.

In the first hits on classical, most are broadband.  Radio Ukraine 16K. 
Radio Tre Rome Italy 32K.

Click on the 'www' link.

The Ukraine (RP) station downloads 20% of the cache and tells me I need 
codec rasipr, which is not in rp9codecs.  What is the current version of 
Realplayer?

The URL for the Italian station is 
http://www.radio.rai.ti/live/radio3.ram
and also does not work, but it just exits after 
filling the cache instead of complaining about codecs.

BBC3 is listed as 44k.

Mexico City University 24K UNAM
Opus 102 Mexico 24K RNL

China has a bunch of 12K, 16K, 20K and 32K, including an RTHK classical 
station.  I selected the 'www' link, found the home page, clicked on 
something about Live Radio and then Windows Media Player and am listening 
to fast talk in Chinese.

Catalunya Radio is slow enough.  Can anyone find the 'listen live' link?
Escolta-ho is javascript.

RNE Radio Clasica also Spanish.  PULSE AQUI is javascript. (click here).

I did not check out either of these with Opera.


classica sofia has an English page or you can 'slushaj on-line'

visoko kachestvo (high quality) is broadband
bavna vr"zka is slow link.  Click 'tuk'.
http://classic-nonstop.atlantis.bg:8000/classic_nonstop_low.ogg.m3u
Works beautifully until it suddenly stops, then starts again.
36.7kbit/sec 22000Hz.  Too fast for my noisy phone line.

There is also a Hristo Botev 20K station in Bulgaria.

Sofia had a nice opera house.

The rest of E. Europe seems to have gone broadband.


A narrowband US classical guitar internet only station.

181FM US has a long list of stations including a classical one that works. 
http://www.181.fm/stream/asx/181-classical converts to 
mms://rly.181.fm/181-classical 32K/32KHz Brandenburg Concerto.  Sudden 
switch to something else baroque.  Then classical.  This seems to be 2 min 
selections of famous pieces.  No program.

http://www.181.fm/stream/asx/181-classicalguitar is 64K

If you click on categories they try to sell you CDs.

The Easy Listening group includes classical, acid jazz, soul, and blues. 
They don't have folk at all.  They also offer chilled out, bebop, trance 
jazz, business talk, christmas highway, front porch, punk, christmas swing 
and many more.

Brisbane Australia 4MBS Classic FM is listed as 32K.  Wants javascript.
Listen Live asks me to Download or Cancel (with lynx) the .asx file
http://www.quicknet.com.au/netshow/4mbs.asx which if I use it with mplayer 
-playlist takes me to mms://streaming.quicknet.com.au/4MBS but then it is 
unable to open the URL.

Also a 2MBS and 3MBS.

Germany 32K WDR 3 classical jazz world culture in Koln.

Ageri FM Greek classical, jazz, world, Rhodes
Irleand has RTE Lyric FM
Italy RAI Quinto Canale, link to Come ascoltarci Internet  (you can also 
listen by telephone).  Requires realaudio 10.5.

I will test these out and add working ones to the list.  Classical only.

Except for ITU, the stations in my script are not listed here.  I may 
write delicast.

Sindi