Listen

How To Listen

The easiest way to listen to our station if you are within a few miles of Minneapolis is to tune in to 98.5 on any FM radio! Our coverage map is at the bottom of this page. (Clock radios or radios that do not have an external antenna may have shorter range.)

If you are outside of our radio coverage area:

There is a player built into the footer of our website. Note: If you browse away from our website the music will stop.
We also have an “app” for your mobile device! Here is how to use it:
- Find the menu at the upper right and click ‘Player App’. Click the ‘play’ symbol. Then:
  - (Apple devices) click the ‘Share’ icon, scroll down and select ‘Add to Home Screen’. Now we are available with one tap on your home screen!
  - (Andriod devices) using the Chrome browser click the 3 dots in the upper right and select ‘Add to Home Screen’. Now we are available with one tap on your home screen!
- Using this method to save our station to your home screen saves us from paying for app maintenance which costs about $1000 per year!
We are also available on the Radio Garden and TuneIn apps on Apple and Android devices!

Our more technically-inclined listeners may use Winamp, VLC or other streaming audio players. Just paste one of these links into the URL field:

Standard Audio (64 kbps HE-AAC)

http://nv8q.dyndns.org:8000/1/live

High Definition Audio (320 kbps MP3)

http://nv8q.dyndns.org:8000/3/live

Audio Quality (Tech Talk)

We aim to provide the most clear, non-fatiguing audio on our stream and on the radio dial. To accomplish that goal our audio chain is 100% digital and utilizes Thimeo Stereo Tool audio processing which is considered the best in the industry. Stereo Tool generates the digital MPX signal that directly feeds our transmitter and internet audio stream, ensuring that there is absolutely no noise getting into the audio path. Song title and artist information as well as other messages (local info, weather warnings, etc.) are sent to your radio display using RBDS (the U.S. version of RDS).

Over 90% of our music library is sourced from Compact Disc and 44.1KHz/16 bit lossless files and we also have many songs in higher resolution and bit depth. This means that our program material is delivered to you without data compression, and the internet transport from our server to your player is the first and only time the data is compressed, allowing us to deliver higher quality audio than any other FM station and most streaming services. We do not participate in the ‘loudness war’ that has permeated commercial radio. We really mean it when we say we care about sound quality!

RBDS/RDS Information our station sends:

PS: KOGR-LP
PI: 35A5 (hexadecimal KOGR)
TP: No
MS: Music
PTY: Rock
PTYN: Variety
RT (Dynamic): Alternates between current program info + station or weather information.
CT: ClockTime is enabled and sending the correct time and date.

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