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Requirements

You will need a program that can connect and play MP3 streams.  Winamp, iTunes (Windows), and Windows Media Player (version 8 or higher) are quite suitable.

These are 128kb streams, so they may not work that well over dialup.

Winamp and iTunes show the artist names and titles for the songs that are currently playing and Windows Media Player (as far as we can tell) only seems to show "listen.comfortradio.org:7050".  There is a fair amount of obscure fun stuff here and we guarantee that you are going to be asking "Who or what the heck is THAT?!" for at least some of it!

You should also see the bottom of this page for a known problem with Windows Media Player and we're not sure about how to get the Macintosh version of iTunes to tune in yet.

Winamp is available here.

iTunes is available here.

Windows Media Player is usually installed on your Windows system.  The latest version can be obtained through Windows Update here.

Connecting

The recommended way to connect to Comfort Radio is to click on one of the following links:

You can also right-click on the above links to save these files to your desktop.  You will then be able to launch Comfort Radio from your desktop by double-clicking on the file without having to visit this website.

If Winamp or Windows Media do not launch when you click on the above links (or double-click on the files), then try this:

  • Winamp - Choose "Play -> Location" from the menu and enter "http://listen.comfortradio.org:7050"

  • Windows Media Player - Choose "Open URL" from the File Menu and enter "http://listen.comfortradio.org:7050"

Troubleshooting

The first thing to try is to click on this link to launch the web page of the radio server itself:

http://listen.comfortradio.org:7050

If the web page does indeed display in the browser, then you are halfway there.  Try all of the different options for connecting mentioned above.

If you get a "404" error, the chances are pretty good that your firewall is blocking you.  We do NOT recommend that you ask your IT department to make a change so that you can listen to Comfort Radio!  They probably won't appreciate it.

The next thing to try is to try to connect to someone else's server:

If either of those work but the suggested methods do not, there is only a small chance that this is going to work for you.  If you want to try one last thing, you are welcome to email us by clicking here to let us know what link you used to successfully connect.  We cannot promise that we'll be able to get it working for you, but we will try to help.

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This site was last updated 10/17/03