FREEWARE SPOTLIGHT By Deanna McElveen Living exactly halfway between two cities means we are on the broadcasting fringe of both cities’ radio stations
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Pocket Radio Player — a world of radio stations
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AuthorTopicDeanna McElveen
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Rick Corbett
AskWoody MVPWow! Thank you, Deanna… what a truly excellent program. I had never heard of it before but it’s already been playing in the background for the last hour.
A few points I’ve noticed after using it for the first time:
1. *Right*-clicking on the station logo cycles through any available equalizer animations.
2. When you’re recording songs, you lose the ability to right-click on a song to use ‘Search’. To get the ‘Search’ function back, click the large ‘Back’ button on bottom-right of the UI.
3. Changing the recording format from OGG to MP3 is as easy as dropping a libmp3lame.dll file into the same folder as prp.exe then changing your recording preferences in Options.
The libmp3lame.dll needs to be either v3.99.5 or 3.100… and make sure it’s the x86-Win32 version. I chose v3.99.5 downloaded from the Lame3 libraries at Rarewares. (The v3.100 version is available from Free-Codecs.com but I found that site was less clear.)
Hope this helps…
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Wayne
AskWoody PlusAother great freebie is streamWriter, a program I’ve been using for years. It has all the features mentioned, e.g., recording, volume control, etc., but in addition allows building folders of your favourite stations (in my case, separate folders for blues, folk, soft rock, hard rock, country, and guitar along with unsorted stations for Christmas music, chill out, and a few classical composers). Finding stations is also easy, just enter the genre you want plus optional variables like kbps and a list appears in the right side panel.
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milleron
AskWoody PlusWell, Deanna, you’ve hit another home run here. I’ll check out Pocket Radio, and I’m also interested in the StreamWriter that Wayne recommended. Thanks to both of you!
Depending on where one is listening, it may be worth mentioning that Alexa, the genius who lives inside my Amazon Echoes, can reproduce many of the tricks that Pocket Radio can do if you’re away from your PC. However, she wants you to provide the call letters or the frequency of the station you’re after, as she can’t show you her database. (I’d assume that her sisters, Siri and Google, can do the same thing.)
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OscarCP
MemberFor years I used to have iTunes for Windows and used it to listen to radio stations sorted out by content: NPR news and commentary on current affairs, Jazz, classical, country, etc. and to save music organized by tracks if it was an album. These days I have stations bookmarked, something messy, but I only listen to a few stations that cannot be reached with my own radio. Now I have a Mac (running Monterey), but iTunes is gone, gone, gone.
So, inspired by this article by Deanna in the current Newsletter, I now wonder what could be a good replacement of iTunes for Macs.
Ex-Windows user (Win. 98, XP, 7); since mid-2017 using also macOS. Presently on Monterey 12.15 & sometimes running also Linux (Mint).
MacBook Pro circa mid-2015, 15" display, with 16GB 1600 GHz DDR3 RAM, 1 TB SSD, a Haswell architecture Intel CPU with 4 Cores and 8 Threads model i7-4870HQ @ 2.50GHz.
Intel Iris Pro GPU with Built-in Bus, VRAM 1.5 GB, Display 2880 x 1800 Retina, 24-Bit color.
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Alex5723
AskWoody PlusNow I have a Mac (running Monterey), but iTunes is gone, gone, gone.
iTunes hasn’t gone. iTunes has been split in 3 : Music, Podcasts, and TV apps
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OscarCP
MemberAlex: “iTunes hasn’t gone. iTunes has been split in 3 : Music, Podcasts, and TV apps”
If that’s all, then it has lost the radios?
Ex-Windows user (Win. 98, XP, 7); since mid-2017 using also macOS. Presently on Monterey 12.15 & sometimes running also Linux (Mint).
MacBook Pro circa mid-2015, 15" display, with 16GB 1600 GHz DDR3 RAM, 1 TB SSD, a Haswell architecture Intel CPU with 4 Cores and 8 Threads model i7-4870HQ @ 2.50GHz.
Intel Iris Pro GPU with Built-in Bus, VRAM 1.5 GB, Display 2880 x 1800 Retina, 24-Bit color.
macOS Monterey; browsers: Waterfox "Current", Vivaldi and (now and then) Chrome; security apps. Intego AV -
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AskWoody PlusRobert J Sokol MD
GuestQuick question that I’ll bet others will ask. I downloaded the program as described in the article, but on a win 11 dell workstation laptop, Windows Defender won’t let it run, with no option to run it anyway. I turned Defender off and still no dice. Could you ask the author re this and maybe publish a response? This program would be very useful for me.
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Paul T
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Steve
AskWoody PlusI have mostly migrated to On-Line Radio Box. It is native to your World-Wide Web browser. The station that I have truly flipped out for is Swoothradio. It reminds me very much of (when I had satellite TV here) Sirius Disorder.
Important links you can use, without the monetization pitch = https://pqrs-ltd.xyz/bookmark4.htmlfotafm
AskWoody PlusWhere can I find the article “Pocket Radio Player — a world of radio stations” online so that I can share a link to the content? There is no link to the plus Newsletter (19.24.0, 2022-06-13) “Plus Newsletter” is not valid.
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fotafm
AskWoody PlusAlex,
There is a link to the Free Newsletter which contains only a summary of the 10-12 page FREEWARE SPOTLIGHT article. The Plus newsletter is not linked in the Newsletter list. I am interested in linking to the article content which provides instructions and recommendations for using the Pocket Radio Player. I don’t know if this article has been published elsewhere. An internet search found only AskWoody.
BTW: I edit a newsletter for the Fredericksburg PC Users Group in Virginia.
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Alex5723
AskWoody PlusI am interested in linking to the article content which provides instructions and recommendations for using the Pocket Radio Player.
The full article is only for Plus members and can’t be linked.
You can become a PLUS member for as much as $1…
fotafm
AskWoody PlusI understand. I am a plus member. If I decide to write about a topic and find content only available to AskWoody Plus members, I provide the link to the plus content and explain that you have to be a plus member of AskWoody to read it. This provides credit to the author and perhaps some motivation for readers to become paid (i.e., Plus) members of AskWoody.com.
Some of the Plus member Newsletters are linked in the 2022 Archives. Since the 19.24.0 (i.e., Plus) Newsletter containing the full article written by Deanna McElveen is not linked, the citation for content is “AskWoody Plus – 19.24.0 – 2022-06-13 – Pocket Radio Player — a world of radio stations” This citation would be for content that I cannot access as an AskWoody.com Plus member.
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ManagerThat Plus newsletter is listed and the link is valid if you’re logged in as a Plus member, but you are not being recognized as a Plus member (compare the first line under your name beside each of your posts with the similar line under Alex5723 on his posts).
Windows 11 Pro version 22H2 build 22621.2361 + Microsoft 365 + Edge
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AskWoody PlusYes.
Most of the Plus content is not linked. I would attach the page to show you but there does not appear to be a means to attach a screen capture. The top right of the page after I log in says:
<h5>Plus Membership</h5>
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Your membership expires on August 24, 2023Susan Bradley
ManagerThe issue appears to be that you cancelled the subscription in the console. This messes with the plus membership big time. I’m fixing it now but just a fyi if you want to adjust subscriptions, email me ahead of time as there are settings I have to fix up.
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