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For MAC users: Our CBC Radio streams are compatible with MAC OS For For OS X 10.3.9 or higher, you will need the  Flip4Mac Windows Media plugin. Note: When connecting to Windows Media streaming servers, the Flip4Mac may try to download the requested media instead of streaming it. This can cause the stream to stutter or loop back after a few minutes of play. To correct this: Open the System Preferences utility Click Flip4Mac WMV to open the Flip4Mac preferences pane Open the Movie tab Select "Create streaming movies" Close System Preferences and restart any open browsers The next time you access a WMA or WMV stream, the plugin will display the streaming progress bar instead of the download bar, and the stream should play correctly. For OS X 10.3.8 or lower you will need Windows Media Player 7.1 After you've downloaded the correct codec or Media Player you may need to quit your browser and then re-start/re-open it for the player to work correctly. OS 8/9 users: we've made some technical changes as of September 24, 2004. You should now be able to connect.

For Windows 98 users or Windows Media Player 6.4 support: Users with Windows Media Player 6.4 or Windows 98/ME will need to download codecs

For Mozilla users: There is a known bug with the Windows Media plugin and Mozilla. There is a patch available from Mozilla that will fix this problem. Download the patch for Windows Media from Mozilla Save the patch (text file) to your desktop and then double-click on it. You will be asked if you would like to add the information into your system Registry. Click "yes" and restart Mozilla. For Unix users: Our CBC radio streams are compatible with Unix We tested our streams using the Mplayer plugin version 2.66 on: - Gentoo Linux 1.5.1 - FreeBSD 5.x Download the Mplayer plugin version 2.66 Mplayer tends to take longer to connect and buffer the stream than Windows Media player, so please be patient. To reduce the buffering time in mplayer, update /etc/mplayerplug-in.conf by uncommenting the following line: cachesize=256 Xine is another alternative player that works for Linux/UNIX as well: Find out more information about Xine on their website

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