Using the Internet as a radio can be quite a simple experience.
There are a few different approaches towards this using it in exactly the old way when we switched on the radio and listened to the radio, as it came live or streaming as it’s sometimes called.
In my last post, I suggested downloading one or two resources. In this post, I’d like to consider using the free programme, Viddi Player.
So here’s an example of how to listen to BBC Radio 4 using Viddi player.
Simply start the player and choose BBC Radio 4 from the drop down menu on the right.
If you like, you can always add this to your favourites, and every time that you start the player from now on, It will start with BBC Radio 4 until you change your station.
You might prefer to listen directly from the BBC Radio 4 site.
You can find it in many different ways of course, but as we’re using the the player, we can click on the I or information button, and there we’ll able to get more details about the web page of the station playing.
Click on the web page information to open up the BBC Radio 4 page now and find the listen live button.
We could just click on this now if we want to listen to the programme but if we do, when we close the page we’ll have to do it all again later.
So let’s see how we can provide a link on our computer desktop, which will always play Radio 4 whenever we like.
First of all we need to click on the listen live icon.
This will take us to a pop up box, which has the text, “Listen using stand-alone player” and if we right click on this box we can choose “save link”.
So let’s choose the save link, and when we come to save, I suggest saving it to the desktop, but changing the name.
In this case I’ve chosen the name Radio4player and chosen to save it to the desktop.
Once we’ve done this, we should the return to the desktop where we now have an icon with the RealPlayer logo saying, ” Radio4player”
and any time we want to listen to BBC Radio 4 we can click on this icon, and the BBC Radio 4 programme will start.
There’s one thing more to think about and that is of course using the radio through the Internet depends very much on how good your Internet connection is.
Later we’ll want to see how we can control what we listen to, how and when.
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