How can I hear the live stream?

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To listen to our free live streams on our website, you must install the Microsoft Silverlight plug-in for your web browser. But if you can not (or will not) install Silverlight, you can still access the live stream. In this guide, you will see how to access the live streams from the site itself, as well as several non-Slverlight alternative methods for listening.

Website Method:

1. Go to the front-page, and click on “Listen Live.” You do not need to be logged in.

2. The OnDemand player (in the red box in the image below) should load, and you should see the face of whichever host is broadcasting at the moment. Click either of the play arrows (circled in red) to begin playing the stream. If you do not see the OnDemand Player, you may need to install the Silverlight plug-in. See the Silverlight site to download and install, and see the Wikipedia article to see if your operating system and browser are compatible.

3. We actually offer 4 separate streams. You can choose which live stream you would like to hear (see image below). You can choose form our Washington D.C. station (1050AM), our primary stream (titled simply “Air America”), a stream f some older, classic Air America shows (“Classics”), and a live video stream of some of our shows. You can find the schedules for all these streams by clicking here.

Non-Silverlight Alternatives:

If you can not (or will not) use the Silverlight-based player, you still have many ways to listen to the live stream. Our primary stream is MP3-based, so it will play on almost any operating system and free media player.

Silverlight Stream Alternative 1: iTunes
You can se iTunes to listen to the stream. ITunes is free download, and you don’t need an iPod or anything like that to use it.

You can download iTunes here.

1. In iTunes, Click Radio in the left-hand “Library” Column.
2. In the list that appears in the main section, click “talk/spoken word.” (may be listed under “News/Talk Radio” in newer versions)
3. Double-click “Air America.”

Silverlight Stream Alternative 2: Windows Media Player
1. In windows media player, press "control" and "u" at the same time, or click on "file/open URL"
2. In the "open" box enter the following address, and click OK: http://cast.voxcdn.net:8000/live

Silverlight Stream Alternative 3: Any Other Free Media Player
The Air America live stream is a simple MP3 stream. It will play in many free media players, like Winamp and Foobar 2000 and MPlayer (among many others). Try entering either of these addresses into those players:

http://aarlive.voxcdn.com/live.m3u

or, more directly,

http://cast.voxcdn.net:8000/live

If you have any trouble with the above steps, please send an email to Tech Support: aarsupport@airamerica.com

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