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Portable and Mobile WWR
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Portable and Mobile access to WWR
The intent of this page is to document participation in WWR from portable (handheld, walking) and mobile (cars, boats, airplanes).
Listening from an internet-enabled PDA or PDA phone
Listening to the WWR Lo-Fi stream is know to work running the PocketTunes media player software on a Treo 650 subscribed via T-Mobile (long story, bought unlocked and using a sim chip that was originally bought from Voicestream). However, direct linking from WWR did not work, so it was necessary to manually unpack a .pls file and install the numeric host name into Pocket Tunes.
A somewhat less-expensive alternative for the Palm is KinomaPlayer.
GSPlayer is a free and open-source alternative (for Windows Mobile)
More information on portable media players may be found at:
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Cigarette Lighter FM Transmitters
Several problems have been reported on using cigarette lighter FM transmitters to feed car radios:
- In urban areas where the FM band is fully allocated it is sometimes difficult to find a clear channel for use
- On long-distance trips stations will phase-in and phase-out on the channel you're trying to use
- Frequency drift is also a problem for marginally-stable transmitters
The new generation of FM transmitters will optionally transmit on one or more channels BELOW the standard FM band, such as 87.7 or 87.9, and many modern car radios will also tune these frequencies. Along with the improved frequency stability of the new generation of transmitters, this makes the FM transmitter approach more workable.
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Bluetooth Stereo
For devices like the Treo 650 which do not come with A2DP software, an external Bluetooth headphone or speaker system can be enabled using SoftickAudioGateway.
