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All the pieces with a loudspeaker 
can
be listened to, just by simply clicking on this symbol. In 95% of cases this should
work properly, which means, that your media player will open automatically, and
after a short data buffering period, the sound file will be played, while still
streaming from the internet.
Anyway, especially with old software you could happen to face some difficulties.
Here are descriptions of the known problems, and how to solve them.
Inspite of all arguments against it: the Windows Media Audio format (wma files)
provides for the time being the best compromise between data size and sound quality
(not unimportant in the internet). The standard program for this format is of
course the Windows Media Player, which on most PCs is already installed. A Macintosh
version too is being offered for download by
Microsoft. WMA is supported (at
least for Windows) also by the new versions of
Winamp,
Ashampoo Media Player and other
freeware programs. – Nevertheless, if desired you can get the sound file in
any other format, e.g. mp3, by e-mail.
If your browser (for example an old Netscape) doesn't recognize, that the music
could be played already streaming, and instead of this starts to download the
complete file, you have two possibilities: either wait patiently, till the download
has finished and open the music file afterwards, or you stop the download, open
your media player, and copy the sound file's internet address "by hand"
into the media player: right-
If instead of music the file's source code itself appears in your browser window,
break the download right away! The best thing now would be to open the music file
directly in the media player in the same way as described above. Probably your
browser basically hasn't an optimal configuration and doesn't recognize the
so-called "MIME type" of wma files (audio/x-ms-wma). You could change
this for Netscape at "Edit - Preferences".
If the work has several parts, the link
doesn't open the sound files themselves, but a play list (m3u file), which tells
the player, which sequence of files to play. If this fails (e.g. in some cases
with Windows Media Player 6.4), there are those ways out:
Either simply open the link 
more
information – at the end of the next page it is possible to listen to
every single part separately (that means without the "troublesome" play
list).
Or copy the play list (m3u file) to your computer and open it here. That's
quickly done with Internet Explorer: right-
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