Listen

Rare FM will be broadcasting on 87.7 FM in Central London between Tuesday 4th March and Tuesday 18th March 2008. Tune your radio to 87.7 MHz now!

During this fortnight you will still be able to listen to 87.7 Rare FM over the the internet. To listen in, follow one of the following links, which should open up your chosen media player.

The Streams

• MP3 low quality (32 kbps) - for dialup users.
• MP3 high quality (128 kbps) - for broadband or university intranet users.
• NEW! Ogg stream (128 kbps) - for broadband or university intranet users.

About MP3 Streams

MP3 is the commonly-known format for storing digital music. An MP3 stream is based on the same technology, but is used for listening to live audio over the internet.

MP3 streams are supported by most major media player, however some versions of Windows Media Player cannot cope with MP3 streams (they'd rather we use the propriatry WMA format). We recommend using either Winamp or iTunes.

About Ogg Stream

The Ogg audio format is an alternative patent free compression format. It's supported by Winamp- you can find other software that supports it here.

NOTE: Because we're a student station we generally only broadcast during term time. For full term dates see the following UCL webpage.