Internet Radio

[Merlin]

I'm new to Vista and Media Centre. I have installed an Extender so I can
access Media Centre in another room - it sems to be woking okay.

I listen to BBC radio via the internet and want to be able to listen to it
via the extender and TV in the other room, but I can't find any way to
achieve this. Also I would like to have a screensaver type slide show
display on tha TV while I'm listening.

Can anyone help? I'm reasonable computer literate, but assume I know
nothing about Vista and Media Centre!

 

[DDW]

(crossposted to microsoft.public.windows.mediacenter)

I'm new to Vista and Media Centre. I have installed an Extender so I can
access Media Centre in another room - it sems to be woking okay.

I listen to BBC radio via the internet and want to be able to listen to it
via the extender and TV in the other room, but I can't find any way to
achieve this. Also I would like to have a screensaver type slide show
display on tha TV while I'm listening.

Can anyone help? I'm reasonable computer literate, but assume I know
nothing about Vista and Media Centre!

DDW

 

[Synapse Syndrome]

(crossposted to microsoft.public.windows.mediacenter)

Try this:

http://windowsmediacenter.blogspot.com/2008/07/bbc-radio-plug-in-for-mce.html

ss.

 

[Merlin]

Thanks. I've downloaded and installed the plugin, as suggested. Now what?

I can't see it anywhere in Media Centre. Where should I look for it and
what do i need to do to actually play my selected station?

Please bear in mind that I know nothing about Media Centre, so what might be
blindingly obvious to you will be a revelation to me!

Thanks

 

[Synapse Syndrome]

Thanks. I've downloaded and installed the plugin, as suggested. Now
what?

I can't see it anywhere in Media Centre. Where should I look for it and
what do i need to do to actually play my selected station?

Please bear in mind that I know nothing about Media Centre, so what
might be blindingly obvious to you will be a revelation to me!

You should see it in the Music section of the main menu in Media Centre.

ss.

 

[Eric Baines]

That looks pretty cool - thanks.

I get Freeview, so listen to BBC radio using that. It has the advantage that
you can record it in the same way as you record TV.

I just wish I could find a reliable (and preferably free) way to convert the
dvr-ms files to MP3 or WAV/WMA. I have tried DVR-MS toolbox, but it is so big
and confusing (trying to to all sorts of other things) and all the services
etc it introdcues seem to make my PC unreliable - with the only way to
resolve the problem being to uninstall. I have Movie maker and Nero 7, which
don't seem to work with just audio, so I just can't quite find a good way to
do it :-(

 

[Drew Tognola]

Eric,

I swear by 'radiotime.com'. I haven't seen any other site of it's kind that
is as good. Plus there is a Media Center plug-in to boot.

Site: http://radiotime.com/Search.aspx?query=bbc

Plug-in: http://radiotime.com/partners/mediacenter.aspx

Drew