It’s water change day once again, I have a shit-ton of work and zero desire to do it, but music helps because I don’t notice the work so much. I wasn’t in the mood for either of (miscellaneous stuff on my iPod) or Pandora. I had Radio Viva on computer for a while this morning, but changed it to RixFM because that woman with the god-awful honking voice was on Viva (I don’t have to understand her to find the sound of  “nasal Slovak” seriously unpleasant). I was midway through listening to Katy Perry’s “Hot and Cold” on RIX, grinning to myself at the thought of those Ukranian dudes, then I wondered whether I could listen to it on my phone. I hate the Flash web player, so I use VLC on my computer for it, but the phone can’t do most Flash anyway, so I quickly Googled the answer and found a blog post with instructions for a free app called Fstream, and even the necessary URL (though I guess it’d probably be the same one I had to dig out to get it to work in VLC? Hm…no, same URL, but VLC needs “mmsh”, not just “mms”). Anyway, it works, I have unlimited data, so I can use either wifi or the cell network, and since the guy’s also got a post for Shoutcast streams, I should be able to set up Radio Viva. Dunno about K-Rock; it’s fucking Flash and I don’t think I was ever able to hunt down the actual stream URL for that, so I ended up using Prism. Doesn’t matter for now, though, because I can do what I wanted to do today, and I have no more time to mess around. When I can’t find it again, the blog post is here, and if it “disappears” as things on the Internet sometimes do, the instructions are…

1. Ladda ner och installera Fstream från App store. Starta Fstream.
2. GÃ¥ till Favorites.
3. Klicka på Edit.
4. Scrolla ner och klicka på Add new webradio.
5. Name: Ange ett valfritt kanalnamn, t.ex. P3
6. URL: Ange adress till strömmen, t.ex. mms://wm-live.sr.se/SR-P3-High
7. Fälten Format och Bitrate kan du lämna tomma.
8. Klicka på Save. Klicka på Done.
9. Gå till Play. Scrolla ner till kanalen du lade till och klicka på den.
10. Lyssna på webbradio!

The URL I used was mms://mtg-wms.bahnhof.net/rixfm/?MSWMExt=.asf which is the same as the one I have in VLC except for VLC uses mmsh instead of just mms. I have no idea why; they both appear to work just fine.

Also, yay me for reading through the whole thing, not only the instructions, and understanding whilst having to translate just two words. I get a cookie, right? 😀

OMG…thud. (Faints of teh cute.)