mms web streams?

Hi, Jill, welcome to Apple's user-to-user discussion forum.

What makes you think OS X will recognize mms (Miscrosoft Music Stream)? ;-)>

I played around with this a while ago, but I forget what I discovered. Could you give me a link to a site so I can look into it?

Tom

Firefox will correctly open Windows Media Player to play mms streams.

You can also paste the mms url into File > Open Url in WMP to get it to play.

At this moment, I am getting a host not reachable error message for the address you gave. I assume that this is because they are currently playing a nationally syndicated show that they don't have the rights to broadcast over the Internet. I will try to check again this afternoon when they are playing local content.

I am still getting "Host is not reachable" error messages or, after playing around a bit "Server is not responding" messages. WMP is trying to connect to the radio station but is not being succesful. I have gotten other mms streams to play in wmp so it is not just that the station is using this format, something else is going on.

Do you think there's a plot out there to shut apple/mac users out of the MS universe?

There is a plot by Microsoft to get web developers to use their tools which have proprietary technologies and extensions which make something work fine in Microsoft's own Windows but not on other platforms. This might be a good marketing strategy, but it is not a good strategy for a standards-based Internet.

Rather than going after Microsoft, the web developers need to be made to realize they are locking out potential customers and users by not coding to standards. I have seen two reactions from developers. One is "let's fix it" and the other is "I don't care - get a pc".

In your particular case, however, part of the problem is that Microsoft has not upgraded its own Windows Media Player to have the same capabilities as the most recent two versions for Windows.