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MP3 Streaming
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Listen Live
Now Playing: PLEASE VISIT WWW.WREK.ORG
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24 kbps
Lo-fi mono
Click here to listen (new server)
Click here to listen (old server)
(Good for dialup modem connections)
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128 kbps
Hi-fi stereo
Click here to listen (new server)
Click here to listen (old server)
(Good for broadband connections)
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Listen to Archive
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Get the song list
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Several ways to find out what is/was playing:
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The complete online playlist, which allows you to go back in time
to whatever day you're interested in
- A lightweight link for cellphones
showing just what song is playing right now (and a clickable link to the full blown page above)
- The current artist and song is shown on the www.wrek.org home page on the right side.
- NEW! The current artist and song is now transmitted via the RDS protocol
over the air to your FM radio! If your receiver is RDS-capable
(usually found in higher-end car radios) you'll see the song information text
scrolling on your receiver's display.
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Get the Player
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Go to mp3.com
and pick out an MP3 player.
For Windows platforms, WinAmp
is widely considered to be the best. Certainly you need to
avoid Windows Media Player if possible. If you upgrade to
WinAmp 2.73 or newer, you'll be able to jump around in time
while listening to archives (e.g. fast forward 5 minutes).
Or ...
Go to www.real.com
and get their latest
free player.
RealPlayer started supporting both RealAudio and MP3 streams a couple
years ago, although we don't know when they started supporting time
jumps (FF/RR).
If you already have RealPlayer, you can probably already listen to MP3.
They have the player available for virtually every OS platform now,
including even mobile devices.
If you can't get the current player to work, you'll probably have better
luck with one of their
older players.
Or ...
If you're running Unix/Linux, try XMMS.
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Scroll down for more info, or jump ahead to:
[What's New]
[Frequently Asked Questions]
[Live At WREK album]
[WREK Makes Streaming History]
What's New
Not much. Smooth sailing. We recently implemented a new scripting
system that automatically restarts streaming if it goes down for
some reason (like a network problem).
Send your comments to
streaming-at-wrek-dot-org.
Listen to Live at WREK Album
The Live at WREK Album in RealAudio.
Frequently Asked Questions
- My player seems to be running, but why don't I hear anything?
- Sometimes we go off the air and you'll hear silence, although lately
that doesn't happen much -- we're pertty much 24/7 now, even the 91.1 FM
operations. In fact, even when our FM carrier does go off the air in
metro Atlanta (e.g. transmitter maintenance, lightning strike), we
still keep streaming on the net. How cool is that?
- Why doesn't the MP3 stream seem to function at my workplace?
- You're probably behind a proxy. Try the following links instead:
Also, perform the following steps to configure WinAmp for operation behind
a proxy:
- Right-click somewhere in WinAmp to pull up the context menu, then select
"Options" and then "Preferences". Or just hit Control-P.
- At the top left of the Preferences window that pops up, click on "Setup".
- Enter in your proxy info in the "HTTP Proxy" field.
- Close the Preferences window. You may need to restart Winamp.
- Why does the WREK stream crash my audio program?
- Have you added a program or a browser plugin recently?
If so, try removing it. If not, wait a few hours and see
if it still crashes. If it still does, let us know.
Usually, though, it's because of weirdness at your end.
Try upgrading your player -- it may be a known bug that has been fixed.
And of course, always try the old standby -- reboot.
- How do I make Winamp my default for playing mp3s and not other media?
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One way may be to install the newest winamp and make sure you allow it to
associate itself with m3u and mp3 files. Here's one way to make a winamp
you already have installed the default:
- Start Winamp.
- Go to the Preferences Menu Window
Hit Control-P with Winamp selected. This should bring up the
preferences screen. You can also right-click on the winamp faceplate
and select "Options" then "Preferences...". You can also click the "O"
at top-left of winamp faceplate and select "Preferences..."
- Choose "File types" under the Setup section on the left hand side.
- Make sure "m3u" and "MP3" are selected in the "Associated extensions"
list. Make sure "Register types on Winamp start" is checked.
(It's on the lower-right side of the preferences menu window.)
- Choose "Agent" under the Setup section on the left hand side.
"The Winamp Agent allows Winamp to keep it's file associations from
being stolen by evil competitor programs such as Real Player/Jukebox,
Sonique, and Microsoft Windows Media Player."
- Make sure "Enable Winamp agent" and "Maintain file associations" are
checked. You may want "Show system tray icon" selected as well to
remind you why mp3s and m3u metafiles always open with winamp.
- Close the preferences menu window and winamp.
- Now click an archive link and hopefully Winamp will launch.
This may not work 100% of the time if another program like RealPlayer or
Windows Media Player is aggressive about keeping its file associations.
History of our pioneering Internet stream efforts
WREK has been a pioneer in Internet radio broadcasting since 1994 when
we were the
first station ever
to broadcast our signal using
a client-server approach (on November 7th, 1994).
Back then we were using "CyberRadio1", software
written by Georgia Tech student and WREK staff member John Selbie.
He works for Microsoft now.
In 1997 we switched over to RealAudio. We chose it over some
competing technologies (freeware and commercial) due to its sound quality
at low bitrates, and its low CPU load (and thus the ability to be encoded
and decoded by the PC platforms of the day).
In 1999 we started tinkering with mpeg layer 3 streaming, at
multiple bitrates, in addition to the RealAudio stream.
We completed the beta phase and launched our public mp3 streams in late 2000,
and launched the mp3 archives in April 2001.
Thanks to Chris Ricker, SGA, and the students for giving us a place to
store the audio (Cyberbuzz, the student groups server).
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