All - Thank you very much for the replies!
Atomic2Mod -
--I guess I am out of luck then with Opera. Thanks for checking the website; it looks like there are a variety of players to choose from across the top, they must all be embedded flash players? (curious - alpenmelodie (the site that does play on my phone) is not embedded?)
--Seems like the easiest solution would be your suggestion to find a url for the station that streams to mobiles. do you have an example of what that would look like? I did get a url for the station from my dad's internet radio display (
http://opml.radiotime.com/Tune.ashx?id=s79073&partnerid=16) when I type this into the explorer address line on my computer, windows media player comes up and plays the station. If I do the same on my mobile it wants me to open or save something called "tune.m3u" of type "audio/x-mpegurl" and size "0 bytes". I've tried to open it and save it but I can't get it to play.
--about radio streamers - in the programs section of my mobile is "Streaming Media" (does this count as a radio streamer?)- it wants "rtsp://" format; I can't find any urls that look like that for the german stations.
--I wish I knew what I did to make alpenmelodie work on my mobile. I don't even need to go to the website for that station anymore; somehow I saved something called "player_wma_listen" into my playlist on the windows media player application; all I need to do is click on that now and that station plays.
tkima1 - Sprint is my provider; Opera is the browser (unfortunately apparently), and I checked the settings, and they are as you recommend.