On 11/17/2014 05:46 PM, Kevin Cozens wrote: > On 17/11/2014 2:33 AM, Walter Dnes wrote: >> Showing my age here, I like oldies music. An interesting site is >> http://www.fun45s.com/ but firefox won't play it for me. Fortunately >> they give the direct stream URL on their homepage. If I try >> http://s7.voscast.com:8376 or http://www.fun45s.com/listen.pls in >> firefox, firefox asks for a .pls handler, and I point it to mpg123. > > I see from another message you already solved your problem with > playing the audio stream. My machine played the sound using the > original URL with no problem. Just as an FYI for those "playing along > at home" (no pun intended), you can put the URL ending in ".pls" in to > VLC and it plays the stream. > > Another trick with .pls files if you want to play the stream in > something that doesn't handle the .pls files directly is to use wget > to retrieve the .pls file then look inside it. It is just a text file > and contains the URL with port number that you can put into another > player program. I've used that trick so I could use RealPlayer to play > audio streams. >
Another solution is to use the Tunein app on a tablet or smart phone. You can select from several "radio stations" that way, including some that won't play on Linux, at least not without additional help. --- GTALUG Talk Mailing List - [email protected] http://gtalug.org/mailman/listinfo/talk
