How to Operate Radio-on-Demand for Dial-up
Please read this entire page carefully.
We
use a method known as pseudo-streaming to deliver audio content to
your computer sound system. Streaming does not work well for
dial-up users because of the connection speed and the fact that many
Internet Service Providers automatically disconnect your computer
every so often.
Here
are suggestions on how you can use Radio-Yahweh.com with dial-up to
get the best possible results.
STEP ONE
First, download and install two utilities. They are free.
Free Download Manager 2.3.655 or higher
http://www.freewarefiles.com/program_5_173_15429.html
BySoft StayAlive Pro 3.0
http://www.freewarefiles.com/program_5_54_25240.html
Click each link, then click the download button, then click the
"software author" download link. Make sure you download to
your desktop. When fully downloaded, click on "run" or go
to the desktop and double click the file that downloaded to install.
If
they give you the option to do so (usually with a check box during
installation), allow them to be put in with your 'start up' items.
When
you have installed these programs, reboot your computer.
Free
Download Manager will accelerate any files you download 200 - 500%.
BySoft StayAlive will try to trick your Internet Service Provider
into keeping you online.
If
you already have a download accelerator and stay alive measures,
then skip these steps.
If
you use these, please do go back to the links and write a nice
little review for the authors that have given you valuable software.
STEP TWO
This symbol is for dial-up users: ▼. Clicking this symbol
will download the material that it is associated with to your
computer. Make sure your download accelerator is set to your
desktop so you can find what you download.
This symbol is NOT for dial-up users: ►. Clicking this
symbol will cause your computer to buffer and lock up.
Locate the audio you would like to listen to that includes this
symbol ▼. Make note of it for now, but do not click the
symbol yet. (Check back daily as more and more content
will be designated for your download use). Just make note of
what you want to listen to later.
STEP THREE
A
typical sermon is about 55 megabytes in length. This will take
some hours to download. It is good to start downloading in the
late evening. Often your content will be ready on your desktop
for you in the morning. Start out by downloading one message.
(That is, clicking on the ▼ symbol.) Your download
accelerator will tell you what to do once you click the appropriate
symbol. When the download is finished (perhaps hours later),
notice the time it started, the time it finished and the size of the
file downloaded. With these figures, you can tell how long it
will usually take for a file to download. (This is primarily
controlled by the phone company in your area.)
A
listing will sometimes look like this:
|
PREACHER | SERIES
| TITLE
| PLAY | LOAD |
Jackson Snyder Bville Barn Burners
Master and Commander!
►
▼
This is a VALID LISTING, so you may click the
▼ and the
sermon will download.
As you get more proficient at this, you
will have more and more choices.
STEP
FOUR
When you are ready to listen, you may simply double click on the
file(s) that downloaded earlier. If you clicked on the example
in Step Three, the file on your desktop will be
snyder-master-commander.mp3.
With some system, it just starts playing when it completes
downloading. On others, you must click on the file name.
Either way, if your Windows or Mac system is correctly configured
for audio and if you have speakers or headphones, the computer will
do the rest. Your music machine will pop up and the message or
music will begin.
I might suggest a better music player than the default player you
have on your computer - jetAUDIO. This too is free and you can
download it from here:
http://www.freewarefiles.com/program_6_73_9326.html
I use jetAUDIO because it has all kinds of controls by which you may
make the audio sound better.
STEP FIVE
Once the audio file is downloaded to your computer, you may play it
as many times as you want by just double clicking on the file name.
You may download as many audio files as you want - simultaneously if
you want - and even collect them and play them whenever you want.
That is Radio-on-Demand for dial-up.
Audio files take up a large amount of space. You may burn your
files onto a CD and pass the CDs on or you may send the files to the
recycle bin whenever you want. I suggest you learn to burn CDs
and pass these messages on to interested persons. If you have
any trouble, contact me via the
feedback form and I will
help you. A donation would help me!
Final Note: You are allowed by law to download files by
permission of the author. If the file you want has the
▼ symbol
then you may download it with confidence. It is also legal for
me to share my music collection with you as long as you listen by
pseudo-streaming. However, it is not legal to download
copyrighted material - like Beethoven's Symphonies. This is
why you may see a
► (play)
symbol but not a
▼ (download)
symbol with certain files.
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