How To Listen to FIP

You lucky, lucky people! There are lots of fantastic ways you can tune in to the delights of FIP.

Here’s a few ways.

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Listen Via The Internet

The lovely people at Fip are so good to us. They’ve made their own little player that you can download for your PC, Mac, Windows Mobile or iPhone. Doesn’t it look lovely? We’ve tried it on our office PC’s and we love it. It’s quite safe to download so don’t worry about finding nasty surprises.

You can download it from the Fip website here or if you want the full link to click it’s http://sites.radiofrance.fr/chaines/fip/evenements/applications/. Thanks to Robert Douglas for letting us know about this.

Listen Via Satellite

FIP is available on the following satellites;

• Astra 19° E
• Hotbird 13.0° E
• Atlantic Bird 3 5° W

We’ve been doing some research on the various satellite feeds recently and having listened to both Hotbird and Atlantic simultaneously, we found that Atlantic Bird 3 does not carry the Paris traffic reports or the occasional back announcements about the music that’s being played. So there!

News Flash!
Interruption to FIP on Satellite
10th July 2008

As from the 1st of July 2008 FIP has been unavailable on the Astra and Hotbird satellites. This is apparently due to Canal Plus demanding a substantial increase in fees for carrying the Radio France services on their channels at renewal of contract negotiations. Services may be resumed at a future date subject to agreement.

FIP is still available by satellite on the Atlantic Bird 3 at 5 degrees west, and via the Internet.

The French text of the Radio France announcement is here:
http://www.radiofrance.fr/services/ecouter/satellite.php

It seems that the instructions below no longer work. We’ve tried the old radio player and the new Internet Radio application from Nokia, but neither of them will stream. Does anybody have a way of getting it to work?? Nobody here can get it going

Listen on the Nokia E Series Mobile Phone

If you’re really technically minded and if you have a Nokia E-series device – Nokia E50, E60, E61, E61i, E62, E65, E70 and E90 you can listen to FIP using Nokia’s Open Source Internet Radio Client and a *GREAT* PLS file.

The pls file contains about 75 radio stations and is being constantly updated.

It is available for download here.

Just download the file and transfer it to your shoutcast directory.

You might need restart the radio application before the new PLS file is recognized and shows up.

For those who want to listen to FIP and France Inter, just create a PLS file with the following:
[playlist]
numberofentries=2
File1=http://213.205.96.91:9915
Title1=FRANCE INTER
Length1=-1
File2=http://213.205.96.91:9903
Title2=FIP
Length2=-1
Version=2

Listen on the Nokia N95 Mobile Phone

If you have a Nokia N95 mobile phone you can also listen to FIP using Nokia’s Open Source Internet Radio Client and a PLS file.

A handy tip: Install the 2 programs onto your memory card. You can then access the shoutcast directory

Just create the pls file and transfer it to your shoutcast directory.

You might need restart the radio application before the new PLS file is recognized and shows up.

If you have a wireless LAN you can then stream through your phone all over the house!