In my /very/ limited experience with web radio, I go to the site & click on "listen", or somesuch. That click launches a media player app which then might give you the option to select an audio device. Windows Media Player & RealPlayer do, Live365 doesn't, that I can see.
Out of curiosity, I tried Fox radio & my Firefox browser seemed to be playing it itself. Not using another media player. Maybe I could tell Firefox to use a particular player.
You have me interested in doing this myself (sending web radio around the house). My motherboard has audio on it, but I have another sound card that I'm going to install & play with. I'll let you know.
Maybe someone who actually knows this stuff can say.
IME for all basic sound cards I've owned, the line out is just part of the (single stereo) output signal chain viz:
Line Level Audio -> Power Amp -> Speaker Level Audio | | Line out Socket Speaker out Socket
Conceivably with the 5.1 and better (surround sound) audio cards it may be possible to route several audio sources to various output sockets, however my knowledge runs out here...
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I nosed around the Options section in Firefox v3.0.6
Looks like default audio player is a Quicktime plug-in, "in Firefox".
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yeah, the browser invokes some sort of media player as a "plug in" (ehich basically means the browser bosses the media player round but the media player is retreiving the stream and playing it,
Well ... that other sound card has the old format peripheral bus connector & doesn't fit in my PC. But PC's with sound cards show up at the dump regularly, so I'm still going to try this.
Jim Thompson wrote: > Does there exist a web-based radio tuner from which I could feed audio > to my home sound system?
Jim Thompson wrote: > Another "solution", which I suspect can't be made to work... >
Jim Thompson wrote: > Can a browser, choosing a website with streaming audio, such as Fox > News ;-) direct that signal to a line output, and not to the normal > speaker outputs?
Bob Engelhardt wrote: > In my /very/ limited experience with web radio, I go to the site & > click on "listen", or somesuch. That click launches a media player > app which then might give you the option to select an audio device. > Windows Media Player & RealPlayer do, Live365 doesn't, that I can see. ...
OK, I have this working, kind of. My motherboard has audio on it, which is the default audio device. I have also installed a PCI audio card. Both of these are seen by Windows XP as audio/sound devices.
If I stream audio from a web site & it uses Windows Media Player, I can tell WMP to use the audio card, not the default audio (Tools - Options - Devices). But this change only took effect after I closed WMP & restarted it. And it sticks until changed back. In other words, it's an attribute of WMP, not of an instance of its use. So if you wanted to stream 2 sources, they both couldn't use WMP.
RealPlayer seems like it offers a choice (Tools - Preferences - Devices), but it doesn't show the devices installed.
Live365 & the plug-in that Firefox uses don't offer a choice of device.
The way that I will be using this setup is to send web radio to my shop. I'll be using the default motherboard audio for sound at my desk/PC & the PCI audio card's output will go to the shop.
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I started to look into this and became totally bewildered. For instance, FireFox Tools-Options-Applications is a list of "Content Types" & the app to be used to handle it. There are about 70 entries on that list, including many audio types. I have no idea how to distinguish between them. I.e., the context of when one type might be used. Then there's internet audio streaming in general. Which has different formats, different protocols, etc.
So I'm going with a somewhat degenerate solution: for the shop, I'll only use web radio stations that allow Windows Media Player, because I can direct them to the shop's audio device.
if you like country, or bluegrass. It uses Windows media player.
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