The following is information on how you can listen to TotalRock on various platforms. If you have any questions or suggestions please email webteam@totalrock.com

Please choose one of the following topics:

• TotalRock Custom Player
• Using Your normal mp3 Player
• Mac Users
• Linux Users
• Webcam
• Stream Problems
• TotalRock News RSS and Podcasts

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Using Your normal mp3 Player
This link will allow you to listen through your default mp3 player. If it doesn't work you may not have a music player installed or streaming might be blocked by your network administrator.
Listen Live using your normal mp3 player

Mac Users
We advise using our mp3 stream. When you click on the mp3 link you will normally get an m3u file downloaded onto your desktop. If you click on this your default mp3 player will open and play the stream.

Mac users can get the latest Windows Media Player here.

Linux Users
We advise using our mp3 stream. It can be launched by clicking on the 'mp3' button in the Listen section near the top of the site. Linux users can use Xine or any of its derivatives, also with Firefox.
Get the Icecast mp3 stream

Webcam
Do you get a clicking sound everytime the webcam picture refreshes?

To fix this follow the instructions below:

* Go to Start Menu/Settings/Control Panel
* Choose Sounds and Audio Devices and select the Sounds tab
* Under program events go to Windows Explorer/Start Navigation  and choose 'none' from the Sounds drop down menu .

Stream
Is your Stream dropping off a lot?

Launch Windows Media Player.

For version 6.4 Click "view" from the menu then "options", select "Advanced" tab then select "streaming media"( double click), and there should be a buffer section, change this to 30 seconds and click [apply].

For all later versions: Click "Tools" from the menu then "options", Select "Performance" tab then there should be a Buffer section, change this to 30 seconds and click [apply].
Always try to keep the buffer value as low as possible consistent with a continuous stream.


TotalRock News RSS and Podcasts
What is RSS?

'Really Simple Syndication' allows you to identify the content you like and have it delivered directly to you. It makes staying up to date very easy by showing you the latest content you are interested in.

How do I use it?

The content is accessed by using a "news reader", which is an application collects the News/updates you tell it to. The latest versions of all the common browsers act as RSS clients now.

Once you have found a news reader you like, all you have to do is click on the RSS button of a website or drag the URL of the feed into your news reader.

Some browsers like Firefox, Opera and Safari, automatically pick up RSS feeds for you. For more details on these, please check their websites.

Using the TotalRock News RSS feed on your website

We activley encourage the use of TotalRock news as a part of any website.

However, we do require that proper attribution and a link to www.totalrock.com is used where TotalRock News content appears. The attribution text should read "TotalRock News" and should link back to www.totalrock.com.

If you would like to display a TotalRock Logo with our news please download and use one from http://totalrock.com/logos

If you do use our news please let us know by emailing webteam@totalrock.com

We reserve the right to prevent the distribution of TotalRock News content.