Re: How to listen to Internet Radio?

Thanks guys,

I didn't find mpg321 plug-in to xmms per-se on http://rpm.pbone.net, but
the mpg321 command line application itself works well. One step closer
to what I want to do.

The wget method to look for hints on the URL to use has been very useful
too. All stations that I want to listen to routinely are using mms://
format (although, only 2 of them have reliable streaming quality); I
still haven't found a player on Linux for mms. 

Will try again sometime in the future...

-- 
Daniel Yek.


On Wed, 2004-06-23 at 13:46, Erik Wasser wrote:

> On Wednesday 23 June 2004 20:52, Daniel Yek wrote:
> 
> >         Press CTRL+L, then enter:
> > http://www.live365.com/play/wrajradio
> 
> This URL works fine for me. B-)
> 
> > as if that is the only thing we need and it will magically work. The
> > fact is that some pieces of the puzzle are still missing. When I
> > followed the instruction, XMMS dismissed the Play-location dialog box
> > and sat there. There isn't even an error message. I gave up repeated
> > after many hours of wasted effort.
> 
> It seems that XMMS can't load the stream directly, for example if I 
> enter in the location the URL http://somafm.com/dronezone.pls nothing 
> happens here. I if "download" this URL via 'wget' and then look into 
> the file:
> 
> [playlist]
> numberofentries=2
> File1=http://64.236.34.97:80/stream/1032
> Title1=SomaFM Presents: Drone Zone 128k (Feed #1)
> Length1=-1
> File2=http://server2.somafm.com:8002
> Title2=SomaFM Presents: Drone Zone 128k (Feed #2)
> Length2=-1
> Version=2
> 
> Grab one URL of your choice "http://64.236.34.97:80/stream/1032" and 
> enter this URL in the location box. And this works for me and my 
> xmms-1.2.10-1 of my "Fedora Core 1" Box. Good luck for you...




From: Håvard Kvålen <[email protected]>
To: Daniel Yek <[email protected]>
Cc: [email protected]
Subject: Re: [xmms-devel] How to listen to Internet Radio?
Date: Wed, 23 Jun 2004 21:13:48 +0200

On Wed, 23 Jun 2004, Daniel Yek wrote:

> Various web sites give instructions similar to the following:
> 
>         Press CTRL+L, then enter: http://www.live365.com/play/wrajradio
> 
> 
> as if that is the only thing we need and it will magically work. The
> fact is that some pieces of the puzzle are still missing. When I
> followed the instruction, XMMS dismissed the Play-location dialog box
> and sat there. There isn't even an error message.

The xmms version in Fedora does not include the mpg123 plugin that you
need to play this.  rpm files for Fedora with this plugin should be easy
to find.

 - Håvard



From: Daniel Yek <[email protected]>

To: [email protected]
Subject: How to listen to Internet Radio?
Date: Wed, 23 Jun 2004 11:52:38 -0700

Hi,

The user forum web site is mis-configured or is buggy, I got the
following error accessing the forum: 

        phpBB : Critical Error
        
        Error creating new session


I apologize for posting my user-support question here.

Over the years, I kept trying to listen to Internet Radio on Linux, but
every time I spent time installing XMMS, etc. and search the web for
documentation on how to use the software. Various web sites give
instructions similar to the following:


        Press CTRL+L, then enter: http://www.live365.com/play/wrajradio


as if that is the only thing we need and it will magically work. The
fact is that some pieces of the puzzle are still missing. When I
followed the instruction, XMMS dismissed the Play-location dialog box
and sat there. There isn't even an error message. I gave up repeated
after many hours of wasted effort.

I'm wondering if there is a plug-in that I need to install? Or why
exactly XMMS refused to stream Internet Radio?

I can use XMMS to play .ogg files. My Fedora Core 2 sound system has
been working well, except for not knowing how to play Internet Radio.

I have an Windows computer that I only used to play from an Internet
Radio station (free) using Media Player. Playing from Media Player is
more convenient than playing directly from the web page using IE (so, I
never play from those stations on the web pages routinely). However, I
haven't had time to educate myself on what protocol or format Media
Player is using and if there is a player on Linux that can do the job
for me. This information is a bit not readily there. I would welcome
information regarding the protocol or format used by Media Player and
how I can use it on Linux.

Would someone give a pointer or two? Thank you very much.


-- 
Daniel.

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