Listen to WBAI Live
You can listen to WBAI live over the Internet (referred to as "streaming"), using one of the various audio formats below.
Previously aired shows are archived online at archive.wbai.org. A show is added to the archives ten minutes after it airs. All the archived shows are in MP3 format. The WBAI archives let you (re)play programs, download programs, and subscribe to our Podcasts of dozens of Public Affairs programs.
Live streaming and archiving are paid for, and made possible by our listeners
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All the links below are to the same live WBAI broadcast.
NOTE: On June 27, 2008 around 1PM, WBAI changed the infrastructure used to originate our live streams.
Send any comments to stream at wbai.org.
NOTE: On June 27, 2008 around 1PM, WBAI changed the infrastructure used to originate our live streams.
Send any comments to stream at wbai.org.
| RadioTime Player | |||
| The RadioTime Player is perhaps the easiest way to listen to the streams - it automatically includes the helper applications inside a web page. If Real Player is installed on your computer, then open the RadioTime Player in this window or a new window. All Windows users can open another version of the RadioTime Player (that uses Windows Media Player) in this window or a new window. | |||
| 24 Kbps | |||
| MP3 Mono |
using iTunes, Windows Media Player, WinAmp and more |  | |
| Ogg Mono |
Linux friendly. |
Listen here | |
| 64 Kbps | |||
| Ogg Strereo |
CURRENTLY NOT AVAILABLE |
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| MP3 Stereo |
using iTunes, Windows Media Player, WinAmp and more | Listen here | |
| or use RealPlayer | Listen here | | |
| VLC Player | |||
A simple, free and portable application for listening to any of our streams is
portable VLC.
The download is 10 megabytes, when un-zipped the application is about 16 megabytes.
It works with Windows 2000, Windows XP and Windows Vista. It also works with
Windows 95, Windows 98 and Windows ME, but they are not officially supported. INSTALLING Normally your web browser invokes a program to play the live streams. This gets confusing as the program being invoked will vary depending on the web browser and the software installed on your computer. Here is an alternative for Windows users: After unzipping the portable version of VLC, find file VLCPortable.exe. Right click on it and make a new shortcut to it. Then right click on the new shortcut and rename it something like "WBAI 24K". Then, right click again on the same shortcut and get the properties. The Target box will have something like "X:\VLCPortable\VLCPortable.exe" (without the quotes). After the trailing "e" type a space and then this: "http://stream.wbai.org:8000/24k", again, without the quotes. When you're done the Target box should look something like this: X:\VLCPortable\VLCPortable.exe http://stream.wbai.org:8000/24k Click the OK button and you're done. Double clicking on the new shorcut will start the 24K MP3 live stream in a couple seconds. You may want to move or copy the shortcut to the desktop. | |||