Re: Playing Internet Streams with Madplay

On Thu, Oct 12, 2006, at 11:55:42 -0700, Rob Leslie wrote:
> On Oct 8, 2006, at 11:30 AM, Mark Kane wrote:
> > This may be a stupid question, but I've read through the madplay  
> > man page and online documentation several times and I cannot get
> > an MP3 Internet radio station (SHOUTcast) to play with madplay.
> >
> > Every time I try on the command line, I get:
> >
> > ------------------------------------------------------
> > [mixx941@amd64:~]% madplay http://stream.com:8000
> > MPEG Audio Decoder 0.15.2 (beta) - Copyright (C) 2000-2004 Robert  
> > Leslie et al.
> > http://stream.com:8000: No such file or directory
> > ------------------------------------------------------
> 
> There's no network streaming support in madplay; to play a stream  
> this way, you could instead:
> 
>    % wget -O - http://stream.com:8000 | madplay -

Thanks. That is what I thought, but someone on an Asterisk mailing list
kept insisting there is a way to play streams with madplay directly so I
thought I was missing something. I tried piping it into madplay
using cURL which worked great on the command line, but pipes wouldn't
work in Asterisk's music on hold.

Thanks again.

-Mark

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