Re: today's changes...

Once upon a time dean blackketter shaped
the electrons to say...

> I think that .pls and .m3u files are used both as "aliases"
to

> icecast/shoutcast servers (which implies a single never-ending

> stream) as well as a list of songs to be played either locally or
via

> http. I use HTTP streaming of songs here from home all the
time and

> use .m3u files as a way to construct playlists.

>

> I've not really used .pls files yet, but I'm assuming that they
are

> just a different (and perhaps richer) way of expressing the same

> stuff in an M3U file.

.pls is used almost exclusively for "live/radio"
streaming.

Great. Then we'll only worry about the first one...

Thanks.

-dean