Chinese Online Radio

Well,well,well...OK I will be so kind to post Calkins link from Hennings post where he informs us how much of the radioprogram he understood. ;-) http://www.multilingualbooks.com/online-radio-chinese.html

for those not wanting the toolbar for whatever reason...I recommend the VLC mediaplayer! I love it and it´s for free. It is downloadable for Windos (hehe...), for many Unixversions and for Mac as well. http://www.videolan.org/vlc/

I think I'd have to have seen the post... :P Thanks for the link.

no Problem ^_

I haven't been able to get any of those stations working on my computer. :( Anybody else had better luck?

Let's cut through this ... Get the CPOD-Forum Toolbar for your browser. We've already configured a hefty selection of great Mandarin radio stations. ===== nb: The Toolbar is something me and Bazza put together. It has fallen into neglect, but still works fine for the most part. There are a few outdated links and a bunch of new stuff that could be added. In short, it's in need of a general tweaking -- but the radio part should work just as fine as ever. I was toying with the idea of putting a group together in a few weeks to do a quick and systematic update. I'll post more on that later.

@fudawei: A CPod toolbar sounds like a great idea, but unfortunately I'm a Mac user so no IE 5.0+ for me. I've also been unable to reset my password or sign up with a new account on the forum so haven't paid much attention to it of late. :( I'll be sure to keep an eye out for future toolbar developments though.

fudawei - I tried to get the toolbar, but clicking on the download link keeps giving me "service unavailable" :(

I don't know what to tell you. I just installed it on a browser here at work. Took 4 seconds.

Never mind - I think I've got it now. :) I now return you to the regularly scheduled program...

(hmm...was that rude?...)

FDW, the Toolbar was indeed my preferred access point to Chinese radio broadcasts (and formerly also to the Forum) and I think it is great. Nevertheless I recently de-installed it because it slowed my Firefox down by magnitudes. Whenever you open a new window, the Media player initializes and all channels are updated. One accidental click on a piece of vocab in a CPod dialogue and Firefox is paralized for at last 30 seconds. As the Forum activites have cooled off, this downside outweighs the benefits of the toolbar.

Oh wow, and yes, the radio portion does work! Finally, I get to hear Chinese radio! Thank you so much!

henning ... As I mentioned, I haven't really had much time to examine it in depth lately (although I still use the radio regularly), but I intend to do a comprehensive update in the coming weeks. I even toyed with the idea of forming an 88group for that end. I'll see which components can be tossed and which should be kept.

fudawei, i just downloaded the tool bar as well. Nice work dude.

I now feel like I'm missing out... :(

billgloveruk ... isn't there an Apple-flavored version of Firefox? clay ... as mentioned earlier, there are lots of dead links in the tool-bar. It was put together before the latest restructuring of the CPOD website, so it refers to things long gone (the Wiki, the Weekend Show, etc.) I think I could clean it up pretty quickly, but I need to shake off this winter weather first. We could, in theory, do one up for SPOD as well, btw.

Not sure if this is included in the mysterious bar but: ...www.rfa.org is the BEST Mandarin-language radio I have been able to locate so far. The reason being that their news broadcasts come with FULL TRANSCRIPTS. If any other radio station is offering something similar, I would be very interested to know.

furyougaijin ... we've learned that it is best to leave politics to the politicians and diplomats.

Hey, cool! That's a really neat tool bar! More CP users should know about it! :)