1. A broadband internet connection. Forget it with a dial-up connection of 56kbit/s - life's too short for 56k! Go BROADBAND NOW!
2. An audio player installed on your system. So first select your player of choice. Choose on these media players below

	Windows Media Player To be used with the WMA or MP3 stream. If you are running a Microsoft Windows operating system you don't need to install the player, it should already be installed.
	Winamp Player This recommeded media player support various audio and video formats (mp3, aac+, wma, ogg and many more). Available for Windows only.
	Foobar2000 Foobar2000 is an advanced freeware audio player for the Windows platform. Some of the basic features include full unicode support, ReplayGain support and native support for several popular audio formats like MP3, MP4, AAC, CD Audio, WMA, Vorbis, FLAC, WavPack, WAV, AIFF, Musepack, Speex, AU, SND... and more
	Real Player Plays CDs, DVDs and all major file types. Available for Windows and Linux.
	iTunes Player The well known media player from Apple. Available for Windows and Mac OSX.
	VLC Media Player VLC media player is a highly portable multimedia player for various audio and video formats (mpeg-1, mpeg-2, mpeg-4, DivX, mp3, ogg, and many more) as well as DVDs, VCD, and various streaming protocols. Available for Windows, Mac OSX, Linux and UNIX
	XMMS Is a multimedia player for Unix and Linux systems. XMMS stands for X MultiMedia System and can play media files such as mp3, mod's, wav and others with the use of plugins.

Make sure you have your player of choice installed on your system (to download one, click on the link next to the icon) 

If you want to play LOUNGE-RADIO.COM manually with a different player or the links doesn't launch the player automatically, then use File/Location, "Open URL" or "Open Address" in the external player menu and add the appropriate URL to your playlist. Select the URL according to an audio stream format which is supported by your player.

Here is a list of files/links supported by lounge-radio.com:

 

The SHOUTcast MP3 format is supported by most of the external players (but an exception are the older versions of the Windows Media Player).

If you are still not able to listen to lounge-radio.com, check also your firewall or proxy settings - if you are behind a firewall or proxy make sure the appropriate ports are free and open. We use the following ports:

MP3 : 5020, 8000, 8010, 8040, 8050, 8080, 12000
WMA : 80, 8080