Who loves listening to Internet Radio while you are working or coding? Yes, it is me. I like Internet Radios, and that is why I think the Internet is so great. Since I like music, especially listening Chinese songs while I am coding to stop the outside world from interrupting me at that moment, I sometimes use online stream radio to enjoy the no-stop new/old music playing because the traditional radio wave can not cross the ocean for me.
But suddenly I could not connect to some of my favorite Internet Radio stations any more, name a few, Taiwan Kiss Radio, etc. This made me very frustrated, since I could not be focused on coding without radio music. But the trouble shoot for this issue made me more frustrated. I tried to close all my anti-virus, and google search on “can not listen online radio” return invalid solutions.
After a few days of listening to CD music, I figure out the problem was caused by one of Microsoft’s recent updates. MS just upgraded my Windows Media Player from version 10 to version 11. And for no reason, starting from Windows Media Player 11, it does not support mms:// protocol any more. And a lot of radio stations are still using mms:// instead of rstp:// protocol.
I know it is so stupid for doing such thing on a so-called popular stream audio/video player. But hi, it is MICROSOFT. What is the difference of rstp:// and mms:// anyway.
OK, to get back my Internet Radios, my only choice is to un-install Windows Media Player 11 and use the previous version of Media Player (Unfortunately all of my favorite online radios do not use Realplay stream format, it is sad).
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