How To Listen

Listen: On Your Computer • On Your Mobile Device • On Another Device

PDX.FM can be heard in more ways than old AM/FM radio. In fact, our listeners are constantly informing us of new devices they’re using to hear our shows. If you’re listening to PDX.FM on a device that isn’t yet listed below, let us know, we’d like to hear about it. Email information to contact@pdx.fm.

On Your Computer

Listen Live Using the PDX.FM Player
Listening live to PDX.FM on an internet-connected computer (PC or Mac) is easy. On the toolbar at the top of this page, use the “channel one” and “channel two” buttons to select which channel you want to hear, then click the “Click to listen live” button. The PDX.FM player will load in a separate window along with a chat box you can use to interact with most of our shows while they’re on the air.

Listen Live Using Your Own MP3 Software Player
Do you use iTunes or own a Mac? We’ve provided a link to iTunes up on the toolbar. Click it and your Mac or PC will download a small file that you can launch in iTunes to hear the stream (some computers will autolaunch iTunes depending on the configuration of your computer). Or, if you’d rather avoid iTunes on a Windows platform, try click the Windows Media Player icon on the tool bar instead. You should be connected within a few seconds without having to use our live player.

Listen To Previously Aired Shows
Did you miss a live show? No big deal. Almost all of our shows are available for playback within an hour after their first broadcast – either via iTunes or through the shows own website or both. Click the SHOWS button on the PDX.FM navigation bar to find your show.

Problems Listening Live?
In some cases corporate or personal firewalls are configured to block certain ports on your Internet connection. Ports 8300 – 8399 must be open and are essential to get the stream through to your computer at this time. If possible, contact your IT department to see if they can open this range of ports for you. We are currently working on putting additional relay servers online that will correct this issue so that we can provide a “firewall workaround stream” (01.18.2010).

On Your Mobile Device

iPhone/iPod Touch
We’ve made listening to PDX.FM on iPhone and iPod Touch a snap. Simply open Safari, type PDX.FM into the address bar, and press play. No app is necessary! The PDX.FM mobile stream works with Wi-Fi, 3G, and EDGE connections in most areas. Additionally, we’ve added the ability to navigate directly to the iTunes Music Store to download or stream any shows you might have missed (downloading some shows from iTunes may require a Wi-Fi or 3G connection).

Google Android-based Phones
No matter what version of Android OS you’re using, PDX.FM will sound great on your Android phone. At this time, Google does not include the ability to stream audio from the Internet in their default media player so we’d like to introduce you to a nifty little app called Stream Furious (available for FREE in the Android Market). Download and install Stream Furious into your Android phone, use your browser to navigate to http://pdx.fm/mobile/ and then press play. Your phone will download a file and ask you what you want to do with it, tell it to Play Using Stream Furious. Within a few seconds you’ll be listening to PDX.FM. Just launch the Stream Furious app anytime you want to listen from then on, it’ll remember us.

BlackBerry
With so many OS and hardware variations out there it’s taking us a little more time than we’d like to get a simple set of instructions together that will work with the majority of BlackBerry phones in use. One thing we do know though is that nearly all BlackBerry phones manufactured in the past two years can stream PDX.FM just fine, so long as they’re using a 3G or Wi-Fi connection. In most cases, simply navigate your BlackBerry browser to www.pdx.fm/mobile/ and press play. Your BlackBerry device should ask you what software you’d like to use to play the file. Select the default BlackBerry media player and wait a few seconds. You should hear PDX.FM just fine. If you have difficulty with this method, please let us know so that we can better serve our BlackBerry listeners – contact us at contact@pdx.fm and let us know the model of your particular phone.

On Another Device

We’re currently testing over three dozen set-top boxes, wi-fi radios, 3G and 4G radios, and a whole lot more. Check back here soon to see what new devices will be able to play PDX.FM programming.