On Sun 15 May 05, 3:08 PM, Bob Scofield <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > On Friday 13 May 2005 15:17, Peter Jay Salzman wrote: > > > > > > Does xmms have a utility to manage Shoutcast stations? As it stands, it > > looks like I need to keep a personal webpage of links. Instead, I'd like > > for xmms to remember stations it gets pointed to and let me pick and choose > > between stations I've already listened to. > > > > Can xmms do this? > > Here's what I do. > > First I create a directory called "Radio." > > Then I go to either Shoutcast or a radio station website (like for stations > KBAQ in Phoenix or KXPR in Sacramento) and save the pls file. I then rename > the pls file to something that I can recognize such as: kbaq.pls, kxpr.pls, > wnyc.pls, russia.pls. So I don't deal with the long URL's. > > When I want to play I do the following. I click on the sixth and last button > on the bottom left hand corner of the XMMS player. That opens a box that > lists directories. I then navigate to Radio and all of my pls files are > listed. I then select a file to play that station's music. > > But note that I only navigate to Radio once. That's because the next time I > click on the sixth button, the box will automatically take me to the Radio > directory. So if I don't like what one station is playing I can quickly > switch to another station. > > Bob
Thanks, Bob. I believe that's about the best I'm going to be able to do. In the perfect world, there would be some meta-file data (like "best rock from the 80's" or "they play NPR every day at 5pm") that I can access. But as you point out, it's fast and if I can remember what it was about the station that I liked, convenient. Thanks! Pete -- Every theory is killed sooner or later, but if the theory has good in it, that good is embodied and continued in the next theory. -- Albert Einstein GPG Fingerprint: B9F1 6CF3 47C4 7CD8 D33E 70A9 A3B9 1945 67EA 951D _______________________________________________ vox-tech mailing list [email protected] http://lists.lugod.org/mailman/listinfo/vox-tech
