Kinoma Notes

Bloomberg Radio is an excel­lent source of eco­nomic, busi­ness and mar­ket news.

Unfor­tu­nately the only stream avail­able is encoded using the archaic Win­dows Media Voice codec instead of Win­dows Media Audio, which pre­vents us from lis­ten­ing to it directly with Kinoma Player.

This week I was able to make it work. Here’s how:

• Cre­ate an Orb account, then down­load and install Orb
• Go to my.orb.com and login to your account
• Click on Open Appli­ca­tion (in the upper-left cor­ner) and choose Audio
• In the iTunes-like panel on the left, click on Favorite Chan­nels (under Inter­net Radio)
• Click Add Cus­tom (to the right of the Open Appli­ca­tion menu)

• In Name type Bloomberg Radio, in Path type mms://media2.bloomberg.com/wbbr_sirus.asf, then click Sub­mit

That’s it! Your PC will now act as a relay for Bloomberg Radio, transcod­ing the audio to a mod­ern audio for­mat in realtime.

Now to lis­ten to Bloomberg Radio with Kinoma Player:

• Use Web (Blazer) to go to my.orb.com and login to your account
• Scroll down to the bot­tom of the page and click 40 to set your stream­ing bitrate to 40 Kbps
• Click Bloomberg Radio to start listening

Once you’ve tested it, use Orb’s Set­tings page to “Use fixed speed” so you won’t have to pick your stream­ing speed every time.

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