I received an email recently concerning listening to WFTS on portable phone devices.
Dear Mr. Steele,
On your last live q and a program with Fr. Jenkins, you made
an announcement about the difficulty of making WFTS available
on Iphones and the cost. There is a way for Iphone users to
access WFTSA without you doing anything or at any cost to you
as far as I can see.
I currently listen to WFTS on my Iphone. It is easy and inexpensive. Like the other people I had contacted you
several years ago about what kind of application (everybody calls them apps for short) would be useful for this
purpose and was advised by you or somebody there to look for one that could play windows media type files
(WMV or WMA or something like that is the technical term).
I am sure there are many apps that fit the bill but the one I found several years ago and still use is called
"Internet Radio Box". I found it on the "App Store" that is on the Iphone. It costs the Iphone user 99 cents to
download. (I orginally thought this was a monthly fee but it seems to be a one-shot thing. How these people
make money is a mystery to me. By the way, I have no connection whatsoever to Internet Radio Box other than
buying the app and using it.)
Internet Radio Box allows you to listen to various "preset" radio stations in various genres and from various
countries. You simply select from one of them, click and it plays. Unfortunately, WFTS is not one of these
"preset' stations. However, Internet Radio Box also has a internet browser, i.e. a program that allows you to
"surf" the web,included in the app. You open the browser and click "open a new page" or something like that.
You then type in your web address, i.e, www.wftsradio.com. When your page opens up, the browser program
has a little symbol ("icon"?) near the upper right hand corner of the screen that looks like a box with an arrow
rising out of it and pointing to or through the right hand corner of the box. Click it and it will bring up a
prompt/options box from bottom of the screen. Click on "Enable Media Detector". After ignoring the warnings
that htis will make your browser less responsive (whatever that means), click on the "Listen Now" portion of your
website. A box will (or should) pop up indicating that a possible audio stream has been detected. Click on
"play". Internet Radio Box will then switch to the player screen and start playing WFTS. Before you quit, you
should click the little icon that looks like a heart with a plus beside it. The heart means "favorites". (Logical,
eh?) This will allow you to make/add/put WFTS in your favorites list. In the future, when you open the Internet
Radio Box, you can simply go to your favorites, click on it (WFTS) and it will start playing (after a maddening
30-45 second delay, that is).
It is actually easier to do than to describe. If I can do it anyone can as I am "Technologically Challenged" and at
age 53, a "Digital Immigrant"!?
If you wish you may share this with your listeners or forward this e-mail to those clamoring to listen to WFTS on
their Iphones, I don't mind. I think that the Internet Radio Box app is availalbe for the Ipad, also. As for the Ipod,
I'm not sure. As for the Droid and other smartphones, I don't know. I would be surprised if a similar, easy fix
were not available. (The Windows Phone introduced last fall should have a version of Windows Media Player on
it already and you probably just go to the website click on listen now and start listening. I get the impression,
though, that not many people have the windows Phone.
Another Listener Sent
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