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The future of WOBO continues to be in your hands.
WOBO Broadcasters, trustees, and officers are volunteers and receive no
compensation.
All contributions support operation of the station.
Please support our Internet broadcast with a tax-deductible gift in any
amount.
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WOBO is truly listener supported. WOBO receives no federal, state, or local
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Help For
Dial Up Connections
Thank you for listening to WOBO, and we are sorry you are
having problems listening to our live Internet broadcast. Please check
these common problems.
Stream Not Available
Close the player and try again. If the condition persists,
1.
The maximum number of listeners may already be connected to the
stream.
2.
The stream may be temporarily offline.
Re-Buffering and Dropouts
Problems with playback stopping every few seconds are
usually due to a connection speed that is not fast enough to receive the
audio stream.
WOBO is dedicated to providing a high quality
listening experience. The dial up stream is a monaural program because
WOBO believes the quality of our broadcast is the first priority. Lower
bit rate streams, that do not drop out on dial up connections, have been
tested. The current dial up stream was considered to provide the minimum
quality. At lower rates the sound becomes dull, with increasing
distortion.
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The connection speed (usually reported when a
dial up connection is made) must be at least 24 kbps. Connections less
than 28 kbps are expected to drop out occasionally. If you are
connecting through a service such as AOL, then a speed of over 30 kbps
will probably be required to accommodate the audio stream and all of
the pictures and text being sent to the service provider’s windows.
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Be sure you are accessing the dialup stream.
Some users can connect at 56 kbps and select the 64 kbps stream. It
will play for a few seconds, then run out of buffered data.
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If you are connecting through AOL, or another
content providing service, after starting the stream close all windows
and minimize the main window. Also, disable instant messaging, and
anything that may cause background downloading.
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After connecting to the dial up service, try
launching the player and pointing it at the stream.
mms://wm13.spacialnet.com/wobofm86908 for the Windows media 20 kbps stream.
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Windows media player should be updated to
version 9. Also, Turn off all the background Internet access options
in the TOOLS/OPTIONS menu.
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If the player is still 'buffering' or
're-connecting', then try increasing the player buffering. Since
Internet data often comes in bursts, a larger buffer may help.
For Windows Media
player
1. Select on the menu bar TOOLS / OPTIONS
2. Select the PERFORMANCE tab
3.
In the "Network buffer" section select the "Buffer" check box
4.
Enter a value of 15 to 60 seconds
5.
Click OK
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If you are still having problems email
webmaster@wobofm.org.
Please include:
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Operating system
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Player and version
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How you connect to the Internet (AOL, CompuServe, etc.)
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Connection speed reported
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If using Windows media player, what are the stream
statistics
(View / Statistics / Advanced)?
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Which stream are you connecting to?
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