Radio stations now available on Freewire TV trial
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People testing Freewire TV can now also listen to radio stations within the Freewire TV application. 17 BBC stations and 10 commercial stations are currently available.
Many of these stations were already available as streams, but there are advantages in using the Freewire application to listen to them:
- It is quick and easy to change channels,
- There is a programme guide to tell you whats on,
- As the channels are multicast (there is only one copy of them for the whole of ResNet) they don't count as part of your fair usage allocation.
Linux and Mac users can't use the Freewire TV application (except under some form of virtualization) and can't watch channels broadcast as Freewire TV, but may be able to listen to the radio channels using VLC.