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Here is a little tech trick. Most of the Colombian radio stations allied with Caracol mask the actual URL of their Streaming Media. However if you paste this URL in your browser it will open Caracol in RealPlayer without having to go to their web page and use their embedded player.
rtsp://a1639.l1058032265.c10580.g.lr.akamaistream.net/live/D/1639/10580/v0001/reflector:32262
Now the fun part, try adding in increments of one to the reflector, for example same URL as above and change the last digit to a 3, now you will listen to Radio Activa. You can go through all 10 of their URLs in this manner. Some have a terrible ground loop hum in their equipment, but others don't sound bad. Vallenata is overdriven so watch out.
Hope this all makes sense.
I just ran the digital S/PDIF coax from my PC's sound card to one of the digital inputs of my preamp. The result is good to excellent sound from all over the world on my home stereo depending upon the stream rate. By the way Rubiazo, I fixed the ground loop hum I mentioned in the PM, just wound a toroidal and that took care of it.
Sorry if this topic seems slightly nerdish (is that a word ?).
By kernow62 on Sep 20, 2005, 19:26 in Friendly Talkzone.
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kernow62 says on Sep 20, 2005, 20:12: The complete radio list. This is the list I have culled so far from various sources. I am having trouble getting the RCN affiliates to load; these are mostly the ones that are asx files.
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kernow62 says on Sep 20, 2005, 20:33: more
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adrimm (Moderator) (☼Travelguide writer) says on Sep 20, 2005, 22:13: Not Nerdish Nerdy?
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Miguel says on Sep 20, 2005, 23:57: Very Helpful Thanks, kernow. "There is nothing lower than the human race...except for the French." - Mark Twain 1878-79 0 funny, 0 helpful. |
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emero says on Sep 21, 2005, 01:31: excellent Buenos Dias!!! hugs Diane x 0 funny, 0 helpful. |
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plokij says on Sep 21, 2005, 03:39: super kernow ! Right now I'm listening to La Z Bogota at work
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kernow62 says on Sep 21, 2005, 04:09: I am glad it is helpful. I have a few more URLs to post later. Perhaps Tinto will make it a sticky or Peter might add it to the guides. If so I will work on organising the links as I did with the photo links.
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emero says on Sep 21, 2005, 04:14: me too All I can hear is what the time is... they talk too fast, mind you a few months ago I wouldn't have got that, so at least my listening comprehension is getting better hilarious when they were saying it's 4.40 am... hugs Diane x 0 funny, 0 helpful. |
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aztec says on Sep 21, 2005, 04:20: Thanks... ...kernow62. A very productive and positive post.
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kat1 (Moderator) (Trustee board) (☼Travelguide writer) says on Sep 21, 2005, 04:26: Very good kernow, i have now a very clear rumba stereo
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kernow62 says on Sep 21, 2005, 04:31: I am enjoying Tropicana Estereo from Bogotá at the moment.
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SweetNess says on Sep 21, 2005, 04:59: Thanks Kernow. I'mma try this at home and if I can get it maybe I can have it playing for my mom. I know she'll love it.
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gato-bandido says on Sep 21, 2005, 05:46: Univalle Estereo should be
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aztec says on Sep 21, 2005, 06:59: I am attempting... ...copying, kernow62, your links but can't. Of course I can with those full url's on the post. I would like to place all of them on a Jumpdrive. Any suggestions.
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kernow62 says on Sep 21, 2005, 09:43: aztec just view the source of this page and look for the URLs or I will post them this evening for you.
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cdyow says on Sep 21, 2005, 09:49: Radio Activa Here is a link for Radio Activa; Planeta Rock
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kernow62 says on Sep 21, 2005, 13:12: cdyow, I am going to post active links and URLs for all the stations I can find, including Radioacktiva so you don't have to use their embedded player. If Tinto will at least make it a sticky post so I don't have to look for it when I want to add a station. If Peter is reading this it might be a good post to add to the PBH Guides.
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cdyow says on Sep 21, 2005, 13:22: problems opening links ok kernow. no more embedded links from me! ;)
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kernow62 says on Sep 21, 2005, 13:44: cdyow, do you have RealPlayer installed as a stand alone? If not you must install RealPlayer. I am using version 10 and it works. Just when you do install it, make sure you don't let it install everything, just the basic player.
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BlondeJamesBond says on Sep 21, 2005, 14:30: Top stuff Kernow
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cdyow says on Sep 21, 2005, 14:48: realplayer installed yes. have real player installed. for media types, it is set only to play real player type files though. i use winamp for everything else.
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kernow62 says on Sep 21, 2005, 15:42: cdyow, try opening RealPlayer and paste the URL into RealPlayer, see what happens. Not sure if it is possible even.
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cdyow says on Sep 22, 2005, 13:04: thanx for the help. the last tip worked. had 2 change all default to real player.
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kernow62 says on Sep 22, 2005, 14:22: That is odd, because I use UltraPlayer for everything except rm and rma and the RealPlayer opens automatically for those formats as it should.
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Gomezman5 says on Sep 22, 2005, 17:59: Kernow......... Good contribution.......to PBH
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kernow62 says on Sep 22, 2005, 18:31: I have just added all the ones I know about at the moment to the second post on this thread. I will continue to update it as new stations come to light. Contributions very welcome.
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aztec says on Sep 23, 2005, 11:27: Thanks... ...for the update. I am able to connect to all but the following:
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kernow62 says on Sep 23, 2005, 11:57: Check at various hours. Some appear to broadcast only certain hours of the day. There is also the possibility on some of the smaller stations that toward the end of the month they will exceed their bandwidth for the month and go down for a few days.
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tucsween says on Sep 24, 2005, 11:01: kevin bacon oooh yeah!!!!!!!!!!!(very sarcasticly said)
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Mariangela says on Sep 24, 2005, 15:23: Excellent! Gracias, Kernow! Mariángela 0 funny, 0 helpful. |
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kernow62 says on Sep 24, 2005, 18:28: Nice to hear that you feel a little closer to home Mariángela. I put on one of the stations for my wife this morning, the one that was her favourite station in Bogotá, she was so happy. Her favourite thing is listening to the advertisements.
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kernow62 says on Sep 24, 2005, 18:32: Aztec, here is the homepage for all the staions that do not seem to be webcasting at the moment.
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Victor Carranza says on Sep 26, 2005, 21:04: Tropicana estereo is the best.
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Maura says on Sep 27, 2005, 11:49: HELP!!! I've been listening to Vibra Bogotá and I'm not totally fluent in Spanish so I'm having a hard time figuring out the artists of the songs they're playing. Does anyone have any ideas of where or how I can find out a play list? Maybe email the station? Thank you!
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ARMacleod says on Sep 29, 2005, 03:18: Thanks kernow Some excellent stations, a great help with my studies. The brain is like a parachute, it only functions correctly when it is open. Pax vobiscum. 0 funny, 0 helpful. |
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kernow62 says on Sep 30, 2005, 21:43: I have added a few more, some are from the USA and very good. Most require you sign up for a free account at Live365.com
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gato-bandido says on Oct 1, 2005, 09:07: Live365 is not exactly famous for the quality of its broadcasts, and besides not all of the ones you listed are related to Colombia in any way. Anyhow, some quick research gives these direct links:
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kernow62 says on Oct 1, 2005, 09:33: Removed Paisa Stereo. Thanks.
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gato-bandido says on Oct 1, 2005, 10:07: kernow62 Not sure what you mean by "download" here. Since they are "live" streams, there is no way that I know of to download them other than by recording the live stream.
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kernow62 says on Oct 1, 2005, 10:15: But in Opera, Mozilla, IE under XP or Win 98SE it tries to download, at least under default configuration. Even on a cable connection that is a hell of a download.
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webmanco says on Oct 2, 2005, 09:26: listening audio reports about Colombia No hay extremo cierto o verdadero, porque los extremos opacan, enruedan, (lavan cerebros) verdades. Yotas 0 funny, 0 helpful. |
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Colombo Canadiense says on Oct 4, 2005, 08:41: Colombia Radio Thank you for the great post. 100% Colombiano 100% Canadian Greetings from Windsor, Canada 0 funny, 0 helpful. |
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Paisitaenusa says on Nov 5, 2005, 16:50: All of those and some more here... http://www.chatdecolombianos.com/html/modules.php?name=Internet_Radio3
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quindioman says on Dec 15, 2005, 00:53: .... i am but a simpleton who is out of his depth with too much choice....Kernow thanks to you I have wasted more than an hour trying to decide which radio station to listen to....:-P
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Paisitaenusa says on Apr 7, 2006, 17:28: Here's a Nice Little Pop Up Browse the web and listen to Colombian radio stations while you are doing it. here
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Gomezman5 says on Jul 18, 2007, 08:34: Is anybody interested in updating and/or amending the information of this list........? Some of it seems out of date. In the past, I had used this a fairly reliable link to connect to radio stations.
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Julioanibalvet says on Nov 23, 2007, 22:33: I was looking for a way of listening some music that makes me remember my motherland, so i found this page with way so good interesting links. I wanted to hear some radio stations, but my PC is old so I cannot install Windows media Player series 9 'cos the computer gets wrecked or something like that, anyway install that shit didn't help me so much. So I found a program called Winamp 5.5, and guess what? some radio stations worked so far so good!
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