Streaming How-to-Guide

Winamp:
Method A:
1) Install the latest version of Winamp from http://www.winamp.com (if you haven’t already)
2) Click on the "Listen Now" button on the top of the Rhema FM site.
3) Select the stream quality you are after (broadband or dial-up)
4) Click on the Winamp link and choose “Open”
5) Winamp should open and automatically start loading the stream

Method B:
1) Install the latest version of Winamp from http://winamp.com (if you haven’t already)
2) Click on the "Listen Now" button on the top of the Rhema FM site
3) Select the stream quality you are after (broadband or dial-up)
4) Right click on the link and select “Copy Shortcut” (Internet Explorer) or “Copy Link Location” (Firefox)
5) Open winamp.
6) Click on "File" up the top and select “Play URL”. Alternatively, the shortcut for this is Ctrl+L
7) Press Ctrl+V which will paste the URL contents into the URL field.
8) Select open and Winamp should locate the stream and open it.

Method C:
1) Open Winamp and navigate to Shoutcast Radio under “Online Services" in the left hand panel.
2) Once the page loads to the right, click in the search bar and type “Rhema FM” and click on search
3) This should locate our station, so then simply click “Tune In”
4) Winamp will then locate the stream, buffer it and start playing

iTunes
Method A:
1) Make sure you have the latest version of iTunes installed (Itunes 9 or higher is required). This can be downloaded from http://www.apple.com/itunes/
2) Click on the "Listen Now" button on the top of the Rhema FM site.
3) Select the stream quality you are after (broadband or dial-up)
4) Click on the Itunes link
5) Click “Open” on the prompt that comes up.

Hopefully all goes well and iTunes opens and starts playing the stream, if it doesn’t don’t fear, there are a few more things for us to go through.  It is possible that your computer may not know that iTunes can play the stream, or that it is defaulting to another program.

If your computer does not know how to play the file (it does not recognize that iTunes or any other player can play it) we need to tell the computer to try and open it with iTunes.

6) Repeat steps 1-5 and select “Choose program” (or similar) when you are prompted with how to open the file.
7) Scroll through the list and find iTunes and then select “ok”.
If you are finding that it is opening with another program by default you will need to:
8) Repeat steps 1-4, and then select “save” instead of “open”
9) Locate where the file was saved and right click on it (or Ctrl + Click on Mac) and select “Open With” > Itunes.

Method B:
1) Make sure you have the latest version of iTunes installed (iTunes 9 or higher is required). This can be downloaded from http://www.apple.com/itunes/download/
2) Click on the "Listen Now" button on the top of the Rhema FM site.
3) Select the stream quality you are after (broadband or dial-up)
4) Right Click on the iTunes link and select “Copy Shorcut” (Internet Explorer) “Copy Link Location” (Firefox) or similar. This will copy the links text to your clipboard.
5) Open Itunes
6) Select Advanced > Open Audio Stream
7) Press Ctrl +V (or Cmd + V on Mac). This will paste the clipboard contents into the URL field.
8) Press “OK” and the stream will load and begin playing

Online Player
1. Ensure that you have the latest version of Adobe Flash Player installed from http://get.adobe.com/flashplayer/
2. Click on the "Listen Now" button on the top of the Rhema FM site
3. Select the stream quality you are after (broadband or dial-up)
4. Click on the "Online Player" button (this will open a new window)
5. The stream will load and start playing within 10-20 seconds.