RJ (not THAT RJ) Posted September 15, 2012 Share Posted September 15, 2012 Bills Brethren: I posted this question at the tail end of the latest WGR thread, but did not want it to be buried. I actually have a technical problem with WGR550 and would be grateful for advice. Last season I had no problem listening to games using the 97Rock iPhone app, but last Sunday I could never get the GR app to connect. It kept buffering but never connected. I suspect that the app may not be up to all the traffic that comes on game day. Have others had this problem? Any suggestions for alternatives? Thanks in advance! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mike in Syracuse Posted September 15, 2012 Share Posted September 15, 2012 (edited) Bills Brethren: I posted this question at the tail end of the latest WGR thread, but did not want it to be buried. I actually have a technical problem with WGR550 and would be grateful for advice. Last season I had no problem listening to games using the 97Rock iPhone app, but last Sunday I could never get the GR app to connect. It kept buffering but never connected. I suspect that the app may not be up to all the traffic that comes on game day. Have others had this problem? Any suggestions for alternatives? Thanks in advance! WGR is not allowed to stream from the start of the first game on Sunday until the end of the last game on Sunday. It's got something to do with NFL rules but there was nothing wrong with your app, they were just offline. Edited September 15, 2012 by Mike in Syracuse Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RJ (not THAT RJ) Posted September 15, 2012 Author Share Posted September 15, 2012 WGR is not allowed to stream from the start of the first game on Sunday until the end of the last game on Sunday. It's got something to do with NFL rules but there was nothing wrong with your app, they were just offline. Thanks Mike, I wondered if that were the case. Interestingly, 97Rock did not have that problem, as I listened to games every week on their app last season. Odd that the flagship station would not be able to do that any more. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PromoTheRobot Posted September 15, 2012 Share Posted September 15, 2012 The NFL wants you to pay for their Audio Pass service. PTR Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RJ (not THAT RJ) Posted September 15, 2012 Author Share Posted September 15, 2012 The NFL wants you to pay for their Audio Pass service. PTR I am disappointed, but not surprised.... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
eball Posted September 15, 2012 Share Posted September 15, 2012 Guys, I've posted this elsewhere, but nobody seems to listen. Download the "official" Buffalo Bills app. There is a link for WGR, and it was active for the game last week. The radio feed plays from within the Bills app. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mike in Syracuse Posted September 15, 2012 Share Posted September 15, 2012 Guys, I've posted this elsewhere, but nobody seems to listen. Download the "official" Buffalo Bills app. There is a link for WGR, and it was active for the game last week. The radio feed plays from within the Bills app. Are you saying the carry the actual game? I use the app and WGR was silent from 4:15 till almost midnight. Of note, you can pick up the post game show on the Rochester station. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RJ (not THAT RJ) Posted September 15, 2012 Author Share Posted September 15, 2012 Guys, I've posted this elsewhere, but nobody seems to listen. Download the "official" Buffalo Bills app. There is a link for WGR, and it was active for the game last week. The radio feed plays from within the Bills app. Thank you, eball. I did not see your earlier post, but am delighted that my question elicited this response! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
stevestojan Posted September 15, 2012 Share Posted September 15, 2012 Download TuneIn Radio. Pretty much every radio station in the world. Use it to try some Syracuse station or this week the station in KC. Best app I have, hands down. I paid for the Pro version but you certainly don't need to. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Offside Number 76 Posted September 15, 2012 Share Posted September 15, 2012 Download TuneIn Radio. Pretty much every radio station in the world. Use it to try some Syracuse station or this week the station in KC. Best app I have, hands down. I paid for the Pro version but you certainly don't need to. Can't recommend TuneIn enough. I have just the free version and I use it all the time. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DPR4444 Posted September 17, 2012 Share Posted September 17, 2012 just to pile on, the TuneIn radio app worked for me as well, whereas the official WGR app did not. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RkFast Posted September 17, 2012 Share Posted September 17, 2012 TuneIn did not work for me with this issue. Not shocked the NFL is pulling another money grab. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
vincec Posted September 17, 2012 Share Posted September 17, 2012 Thanks Mike, I wondered if that were the case. Interestingly, 97Rock did not have that problem, as I listened to games every week on their app last season. Odd that the flagship station would not be able to do that any more. The NFL wants you to pay for their Audio Pass service. PTR I don't think this is true. The WRG app was off last last week for much more than just the game so I think it was a glitch and I read somewhere that you CAN get the streaming audio of the games this year and I DID get the streaming audio of this weeks game and post game show on my WRG app. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RJ (not THAT RJ) Posted September 17, 2012 Author Share Posted September 17, 2012 I don't think this is true. The WRG app was off last last week for much more than just the game so I think it was a glitch and I read somewhere that you CAN get the streaming audio of the games this year and I DID get the streaming audio of this weeks game and post game show on my WRG app. Thanks vince. To follow up on my original post, I still had problems with the WGR app yesterday even when I tried to access it through the official Bills app. I wonder whether you are right, vince, that the problem is more the weakness of the app (can't handle the traffic, perhaps?) than NFL policy. I do know that 97 Rock's app never failed me last season, so either the NFL has gotten tougher or WGR has tech problems, or both. Be that as it may, I was able to get a rochester station through Tunein. The problem, though, was that the rochester feed in question fell at least two series behind actual play, and the station (I guess it is the station itself, not the feed) would cut in with a full bank of commercials in the middle of game play. So it was less like live play-by-play and more like audio highlights, since the Internet told me of big plays long before Murph did. At least it was worth waiting for. This is all of course a massive improvement over those stone age days in the 1990s when I was a poor grad student in Chicago without cable and had to tune in to ESPN radio an await the occasional score updates by stringers with cell phones.... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
eball Posted September 17, 2012 Share Posted September 17, 2012 I didn't try the Bills app WGR link yesterday (was at the game) but I will definitely try it again next week and report back with the results. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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