wprestong;57656 Wrote: > I am also a Naxos Radio subscriber (www.naxosradio.com). I think the > issue is how you get the URL and password in; it's not an audiophile > issue. >
I am also a Naxos Radio subscriber and unfortunately the main problem is not a password one so before anyone spends a lot of time writing a plugin to enter the username and password you need to fix the underlying problem first. The problem lies with how they break the tracks. Most players will interpret a break of track as an end of connection therefore you would need to reconnect each track. Both MPlayer and Squeezebox behave like this and you can get Squeezebox to make a good attempt by switching on repeat but it doesn't always work. I suspect that the reconnect is not always fast enough to catch the next track. For some reason Microsoft Mediaplayer doesn't behave in this way. It will automatically try a reconnect and is fast enough to catch the next track. Naxos embed Mediaplayer into their Web interface so that is how it works. The easiest method is to use Mediaplayer and Icecast/Shoutcast to rebroadcast unless someone cares to rewrite MPlayer to behave like Mediaplayer. If you want to subscribe to listen to any Naxos CD's plus a lot of other classical labels then you can either pay around 20$/Euros a year and get a 20k WM stream using their normal search facility (yes it is awful quality) or you can pay about 150 or 250$/Euros per year for www.naxosmusiclibrary.com for a 64k or 128k WM stream. The search interface allows you to preselect any tracks from a CD and yes there will be breaks between tracks. You can try Musiclibrary for 15 minutes at 64k free if you go to the site. -- MrStan ------------------------------------------------------------------------ MrStan's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=1771 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=15032 _______________________________________________ discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
