Re: Two Questions

On 2024-12-03 04:57, micky wrote:

Do you speak the languages of any or all 3 countries?   Because I still
don't, and I wanted news or talk radio, not just music, I wanted some
non-local station.  YOu don't have to decide this until you need to, but
the way to get stations out of the geographical zone is with a VPN.  I
tried Firefox VPN and I couldnt' get it to work, then Nord VPN and I
coudln't get it to work, and I wondered if I was as smart as my mother
told me I was.  But Express VPN installed very easily, and for the same
price, it goes into Windows and on your Android phone. Worked really
well, including for videos from the US. (Had to turn if off a few times
to listen to a local station)  Pay by the month and when you get home
you can cancel it.
 I used Tunein to listen to American news etc. (I was careful not to but
I accidentally said I wanted the paid version and let the free month go
by using it and had to pay for the next momnth.)

You do not need an VPN to tune radio stations on internet. There are some apps (free), and some web sites.
Simple Radio app I found reasonable (I tried several apps). Caveat: it does not want to exit and has to be killed.
https://streema.com is very good. Using it with Firefox in a laptop you can find out the actual URL and copy it over to VLC and use that one instead for the listening, with lower CPU load.
Possibly, if you manage to transfer the URL to the phone, you can listen on the phone using VLC.
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Cheers, Carlos.