What's on this website?

ARD Radionet Audio

The above link opens a webpage where all ARD Radionet stations can be played. To start playing, click on the start symbol to the left of the station's icon which you want to play. This will start playing the station and the start symbol will be replaced by a stop symbol. Clicking on another start symbol will start playing the respective station. Clicking on the stop symbol will stop playing the station.

Attention, the player requires JavaScript! The volume is preset to 70%. Changing the volume will store the new value in a cookie. The stored volume will be preset automatically the next time the player gets started. Of course this can only work as long as cookie are allowed for this website. Otherwise, the volume will always be preset to 70%.

Swing und Classic Jazz Audio

The above link opens a webpage where a small selection of Swing & Classic Jazz Internet stations can be played. Use the page in the same way as decribed above.

ARD Radionet für Winamp

No matter where I'm currently located, I like to listen to the radio stations, preferably via Internet and Winamp. Winamp offers a lot of radio stations world wide through Shoutcast. Besides using Shoutcast, I like to listen to German public radio stations, especially when I'm abroad. I like to keep current by listening to German news and soccer coverage. Unfortunately, the German public broadcasting organization ARD offers only a simple webpage, which is pretty backward design wise. Besides, I'm using mainly Winamp. That's why I came up with the ARD Radionet Winamp Online Service. A single click on the ARD Radionet image above gets you directly to the webpage where you will find detailed information about the Winamp ARD Radionet Online Service.

On the very same web page is also discribed in detail how to install an online service in Winamp and how to use it. Besides, there is a screen copy where you can see how the ARD online service looks like in Winamp. The shown ARD icons are not current. Over time the icons have been modernized and are being replaced once in a while. Occasionally, stations get removed and/or new stations get added. Such updates are phased in by me in a timely manor. The list of the ARD stations is usually up to date.

Swing and Classic Jazz für Winamp

I also like listening to swing and classic jazz, but lately Shoutcast has been getting on my nerves with their adverising videos. That's why I created a Winamp Online Service containing my favorite swing and classic stations. Furthermore, I do not need to select a genre or search for my favorite stations anymore. Setting up the Winamp Online Service works exactly as described under ARD Radionet for Winamp except that the file omService_{0000033709}.ini needs to be downloaded from swing/omService_{0000033709}.ini into the Windows Folder %APPDATA%\Winamp\Plugins\ml\omServices. The particular folder names for the various Windows Versions are available under ARD Radionet for Winamp above.