Most radio station streams are notoriously unreliable

Here is a question asked by one of the users of the browser toolbar radio player, in connection to (some) Ugandan radio stations:

My player can't play most stations and in your help menu, there was something about player settings. How do i configure that? I use media player but while installing your toolbar there was a provision to install real player. i ignore it. Could be the reason why most of my radio stations don't work? thanks in advance.