Welcome to the homepage of CFWO-FM, Windsor's newest classic rock station!

How We Broadcast

Why AAC+?

We decided to use the AAC+ Ver. 2 format becuase it offers near-CD-quality audio at very low bitrates (such as 48 kbps and 64 kbps), while the MP3 format still sounds like lossy FM-quality at 128 kbps and even 160 kbps. We currently operate at 48 kbps, measured at 44,100 Hz (44.1 MHz) in Parametric Stereo format. Since AAC+ has such a high fidelity, it only needs to go up to 128 kbps in Parametric Stereo format. Another primary reason for using AAC+ is that since it sounds so good at such low bitrates, we can have many listeners on the stream at the same time, without using as much bandwidth on our server's network connections as would otherwise be necessary, as well as allow people on slower connections such as 56K dial-up to listen.

Our Broadcast Schedule

If you want to see our schedule, it is located here.

How to Listen

You cansee what is currently playing and listen live at radio.mobianlegends.com:8004 (IP address: http://67.205.96.238:8004/listen.pls). If you can't use those links, we have a built-in radio player above that recieves our stream directly from our SHOUTCast server, along with instructions for users of different operating systems and media players, listed below. If you wish to access the Shoutcast DNAS page containing the direct information about the feed using Mozilla SeaMonkey or Mozilla FireFox, but are unable to, you will need to create browser registry strings to allow access in each browser, and this can be done by going to about:config, right-clicking "Add → New String", name the string "network.security.ports.banned.override" (without the quotes), and set its value at 8004 (for the port number), to access the page (this applies to all versions of Mozilla SeaMonkey and Mozilla FireFox).

Our Web Applet

If you wish to listen live via your browser, you can use one of our TWO web applets, listed below:

• Standard PHP Web Applet
• Windows Media Player applet

SecondLife

In SecondLife, we have a direct broadcast from our MP3 feed into the EM Burrow in Pacific Waters (secondlife://Pacific%20Waters/125/70/21/), owned by ErikMouse.

Shoutcast.com

If you wish to listen to us via Shoutcast.com, you can do so at:

• http://yp.shoutcast.com/sbin/tunein-station.pls?id=888133

Microsoft Windows

Our feed works best with Winamp and VLC Player, and our feed can be listened to live by going to the Winamp menu → Play → URL, and typing in radio.mobianlegends.com:8004. Windows Media Player and VLC Player users can type in icyx://67.205.96.238:8004 or radio.mobianlegends.com:8004. Real Player users will be able to also access the Shoutcast DNAS status page at radio.mobianlegends.com:8004, and listen directly to our feed at radio.mobianlegends.com:8004.

Mac OS X, Linux and UNIX

Linux/UNIX/BSD/BeOS, and Apple Mac OS X users can access our streams the same way as Windows Media Player users, using VLC Media Player instead.

Sony PlayStation Portable

The Sony PSP is a marvellous piece of hardware that can do fantastic things. The coders that have made homebrew programs are equally talented and fantastic, and have even been able to write a program for UNMODDED PSPs so they can tune to CUSTOM web streams! I will show you how to tune in to VOM-FM on your PSP (wireless internet access point is needed). The readme included within the FreeRadio zip file tells you exactly how you can add your OWN streams to the program to listen in to radio.mobianlegends.com.

• Step 1, go to http://dl.qj.net/FreeRadio-v1.4/pg/49/fid/15677/catid/140 to download FreeRadio. If that link fails, get it here.
• Step 2, extract the files to your MS PRO Duo memory card. FreeRadio.prs should go in the folder /PSP/RADIOPLAYER/ (in Microsoft Windows, it will look something like driveletter:PSPRADIOPLAYER).
• Step 3, create a new folder on the memory card (in the same area that "psp" "music" and "videos" are), named "radio".
• Step 4, extract the remainder of the files to "radio"
• Step 5, go into /radio/personalize/ and edit the "MyShoutcast.js" file with any text editor (Notepad, Notepad++, and others will do perfectly) to include your file. At the beginning of the listings, (just below "var shoutcast_stations = new Array(") add this line: '888133','CFWO-FM - Windsor& apos; Classic Rock Station', (including the comma, or it won't work!). Please also eliminate the space between & and apos;, for the name.
• Step 5.5, if you want the stream to also appear in your "Raw Streams" category, edit the "MyStreams.js" file, and scroll down to just below the line that says "var pls = new Array(". Add the following line: 'http://cfwo.mobianlegends.com:8004/listen.pls','CFWO-FM - Windsor& apos;s Classic Rock Station'. Please also eliminate the space between & and apos;, for the name.
• Step 6, open FreeRadio in your PSP (under Network → Internet Radio), and select your feed to listen to.
• Step 7, enjoy your music! :)

If those steps seem a bit confusing, we have a pre-edited archive that contains all of the necessary edits already done! Just extract, copy to your PSP, and you're done! That pre-modified archive is available here, along with several other popular webfeeds added for your entertainment.

Standalone Applications

If the streaming modules listed in the Web Applets section do not work, you will need a media player capable of recieving radio streams that can handle AAC and aacPlus, such as:

- Windows Media Player
- RealPlayer (or Helix Player)
- XMMS (or XMMS2, or Audacious Media Player, all Linux-Only)
- Winamp (Windows-Only)
- VLC Player
- Apple QuickTime
- Apple iTunes
- DivX Player

Technical Information

CFWO-FM: (cfwo-fm.mobianlegends.com and SHOUTCast):

• Call Letters: CFWO-FM
• Call Letters' Meaning: Coming From Windsor, Ontario
• City of License: Windsor, Ontario, Canada
• Transmitter Location: Windsor, Ontario, Canada
• Studio Location: Windsor, Ontario, Canada
• Broadcasting Area: Worldwide, via SHOUTCast webstream
• First Air Date: February 12, 2009
• Format: Classic Rock
• Broadcasting Power: 64 kbps at 44,100 KHz (Parametric Stereo), for AAC+ Ver. 2 feed
• Broadcasting Format: AAC+ Ver. 2, using the MPEG-2 codec (SHOUTCast)
• Stream Server Type: SHOUTcast
• Stream URL: http://cfwo-fm.mobianlegends.com:8004/listen.pls
• Owner/Licensee: MobianLegends Radio (MobianLegends.com)