On Mon, 24 Jun 2002, at 10:41am, Steven W. Orr wrote: > I just discovered this existed and was wondering what I need to do to > listen.
You need a player for whatever format the broadcaster is using. For example, Shoutcast's network (http://www.shoutcast.com) uses streaming MP3. The XMMS player (http://www.xmms.org) handles these just fine. If you associate the MIME type "audio/x-scpls" (extension PLS) with XMMS, all you have to do is click the link in your browser. This is an "open" standard, which, of course, means the media cartel discourages it. Many commercial radio stations broadcast using RealAudio, which can be played using RealPlayer. This is a proprietary format, which makes it more attractive to the media cartel, since they think that means it will stop piracy (of course, it does not; it merely inconveniences their customers). There is a RealPlayer binary available for Intel Linux which works for most such systems at <http://proforma.real.com/real/player/unix/unix.html>. For "Windows Media", there is no native player. Some people report varying degrees of success using emulation environments like Wine, Win4Lin, CodeWeavers, etc. -- Ben Scott <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> | The opinions expressed in this message are those of the author and do not | | necessarily represent the views or policy of any other person, entity or | | organization. All information is provided without warranty of any kind. | ***************************************************************** To unsubscribe from this list, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the text 'unsubscribe gnhlug' in the message body. *****************************************************************
