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Listening to The Ark in OS X and Linux
Posted on Thursday, February 01, 2007 at 5:43 PM by Jason Barker
I wrote last month about the Orthodox Christian Network launching The Ark, their new 24-hour Orthodox Internet radio station.
The streaming service used by The Ark incorporates an embedded media player, meaning that The Ark's page loads the Windows Media Player into a small webpage in your browser. This creates a problem for people using OS X or Linux rather than Windows, because embedding the Windows Media Player into a page requires Active X, which is only present in Windows. Thus, potential listeners who use OS X or Linux may have found themselves unable to listen to the station.
By looking at the code for the page for the high-speed web stream, I was able to find the direct URL for The Ark's stream:
http://63.247.194.178:7475/SAM_WMA_1O
Opening that link directly in your WMA-capable media player will enable you to listen to The Ark without having Active X. You will lose the artist and title listings - and the promotional graphics - that are part of The Ark's player page, but you will now be able to listen to the stream if you are using something other than Windows.
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