On 11/21/2013 12:49 PM, David E. Ross wrote: > Windows 7 (x64) > SeaMonkey 2.22.1 > RealPlayer 15.6.0.14 > Winamp 5.66 > > Winamp and RealPlayer do indeed work with a number of the streams I > like, mostly classical music. Although Winamp does not appear in the > list of plugins with either [Help > About Plugins] or [Tools > Add-ons > Manager > Plugins], I can select a link to a stream and receive the > broadcast. > > However, I am having trouble with some live streaming broadcasts. The > affected (and afflicted) links end with the extension .pls (e.g., > listen.pls, mp3.pls). When I select a .pls link, I get an error popup > that says: >> C:\Users\David\AppData\Local\Temp\listen-7.pls could not be opened, >> because the associated helper application does not exist. Change the >> association in your preferences. > The "listen-7.pls" might instead be "mp3-5.pls" for a mp3.pls link. > > When I go to [Edit > Preferences > Browser > Helper Applications], I > cannot find an entry for .pls. I do find an entry for MIME type > audio/x-scpls but not audio/pls, neither of which are registered with > the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (IANA). > > How do I create a new Helper Application entry for .pls files?
The problem is that I have a page in my Web site for listening to streaming radio broadcasts (mostly classical music). The page has links to launch applications outside of SeaMonkey to play the streams. On Windows XP, this worked even for .pls links; on Windows 7, this no longer worked. Here is my solution: 1. I created a folder named "musiclinks" in my mirrored Web site on my PC. 2. On each .pls link, I right-clicked and selected Save Link Target As with the location in the "musiclinks" folder. 3. For each downloaded .pls file, I changed the name to abc.mp4, where "abc" was the call-letters of the radio station. 4. On my Web page, I changed the .pls links for launching the streaming applications to be relative links to the appropriate .mp4 files in "musiclinks". 5. After testing all links on the Web page, I uploaded the revised Web page to my ISP's Web server, created folder "musiclinks" on the server, and uploaded the .mp4 files. There might still be some tweaking required, but my <http://www.rossde.com/music.html> now works. -- David E. Ross <http://www.rossde.com/> Where does your elected official stand? Which politicians refuse to tell us where they stand? See the non-partisan Project Vote Smart at <http://votesmart.org/>. _______________________________________________ support-seamonkey mailing list [email protected] https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/support-seamonkey
