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Okay, I'll try the FFmpeg audio option first and see how that goes.  I'll let you know what happens.

I was listening to "RADIO AFRICA ONLINE" -- I am not sure what format they use.  I also had the problem when I was listening to the feed from KOPB, the oregon public broadcasting radio station feed.

BTW, I was able to get your app running on a windows 7 PC by running the free (for now) windows android emulator "BlueStacks".  BlueStacks is slow to load, but it does run the xiialive app.  The only problem I had with it was that it sends a message back when I click on the "LOCAL" tab that the location service is turned off.  This probably is an issue with BlueStacks, as it doesn't occur on an actual android device.  You might be interested in trying it....  If you can figure a work-around for this issue you might be able to publish it as a way to run on a windows computer!

One other question -- any way to play the following feed?:
http://prpfm.streamon.fm/
It's the feed from an online station called "Portland Radio Project" -- their main page is located at prp.fm.
I tried to decipher some kind of feed URL from looking at the HTML for the web pages, but was unable to.  Any ideas?

One last thought -- It wasn't clear how to add stations not found by doing searches of the two station lists the program uses -- I finally figured it out by seeing that I could "manually" add a "favorite" by entering a URL.  This worked for a station that had a .pls file they pointed to in their web page (imbedded in the player code of their HTML).  It would seem appropriate to put a button on the main player page that would also allow the "playing" of a URL.  Then, once it is running, the "add to favorites" button could be pressed.  I think this might be more straightforward than burying it in the "favorites" tab....  What do you think?