Listen To Radio Stations And Watch TV Channels With Windows & VLC Media Players

How to Listen To Radio Stations and Watch TV
Channels From Around the World With Your
Windows and VLC Media Players by Chinedu
Rylan
1. Listen to Radio Stations With Windows Media
Player:
In case you don't know this already, you can listen to
a host of radio stations in the world with your
Windows Vista-, 7- or 8-powered personal
computer, from the comfort of your home. You
won't be needing the heavy and unreliable Short
Wave receivers for this nor will you download an
application to achieve this. All you need is a
Windows Media Player and an internet connection.
If you have a Windows Media Player on your PC and
a working internet connection, find the application
and open it. Then click on the "Media Guide" button
at the top right or left (depending on the version you
are using) corner of your screen and it will take you
to the next step. However, if the "Online Stores"
button is visible instead of the "Media Guide" button,
click on the arrow to the right of "Online Stores" and
it will take you to the "Media Guide" button.
If your internet connection is working, it will
automatically search for available popular radio
stations. If this does not happen (or if it does
happen, but the radio station you want to listen to
does not appear in the list), you can manually
browse for radio stations by their genre or you do a
quick search by typing the name of the radio station
you intend listening to in the application's Radio
Station Search box. If the radio station is available, it
will come up among the search results. If it doesn't
appear, then it's not in the Windows Media
database.
For example, if you want to listen to the BBC World
Service, you can either browse for it in the News +
Talk genre or you can do a quick search by typing
"BBC" or "BBC World Service" into the Radio Station
Search box. If the radio station is available it will
show up in the search results. Once you've found
the station you are looking for you can start listening
to it straightaway by clicking on the "Listen" button
below it.
2. Listen to Radio Stations With VLC Media
Player (1):
Don't feel too bad if your Laptop is not Windows-
powered, because you can also listen to an
unlimited number of online radio stations with your
VideoLAN (VLC) Media Player. This is even a better
and more comprehensive alternative to the
Windows Media Player.
The first thing you need to do is to make sure that
you have a working internet connection. Once you've
firmed this up, you need to launch the VLC Media
Player application. Then you have to click on the
"Media" button at the top left corner of your screen.
Doing this will give you a drop-down menu from
which you are to select "Open Network Streaming."
When you've done this you'll see a dialog box
requesting you to insert the URL of the internet
radio station you want to listen to. If you don't know
the URL of the station you have in mind, you can
search for it with a web browser. Click on the "Play"
button when you've done this and – if it's available –
you should start listening right away.
A reliable, but unofficial, URL of the BBC World
Service is http://www.vpr.net/vpr_files/
stream_playlists/vpr_bbc_mp3.pls
3. Listen to Radio Stations With VLC Media
Player (2):
Alternatively, you can listen to some preinstalled
radio stations with your VLC Media Player by clicking
on the "View" button on the top left corner of your
VLC screen. This will show you see a drop-down;
when you see this you should select "Playlist."
Double-clicking on the "Internet" button on the
screen that comes after it will show you another
drop-down menu. Here, you'll have to click on the
"Icecast Directory." Select the radio station of your
choice and listen there and then.
4. Watch Online TV Channels With VLC Media
Player
To watch an online TV channel with your VLC Media
Player, launch the application and click on the
"Media" button on the top left corner of your screen.
A drop-down menu will be displayed. To watch an
online TV channel, select "Streaming" from the list of
items displayed in the drop-down menu. When
you've done this, a dialog box will be opened; click
on the third tab labelled "Network" and insert the
URL of the TV channel you wish to stream or play in
the search box and click on "Stream" or "Play" to
watch. Voila!
Try this out today.
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