Date: Thu, 02 Feb 2006 15:10:44 -0500 From: JD Arnold <jdarnold@buddydog.org> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Playing streaming music Message-ID: <drtovk$32k$1@sea.gmane.org> In-Reply-To: <43E133F4.3020106@mkproductions.org> References: <drr884$fpt$1@sea.gmane.org> <op.s4bclglzblu3bc@p4-3200> <43E133F4.3020106@mkproductions.org>
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Mark Kane wrote: > Andreas Rudisch wrote: >> On Wed, 01 Feb 2006 22:12:41 +0100, JD Arnold <jdarnold@buddydog.org> >> wrote: >> >>> Now that I have my sound card working, I was wondering if there is a >>> port to play streaming music from my favorite college radio station? >>> The live streams from http://www.wzbc.org send me "PLS" files, which >>> I understand to be WinAmp "playlist" files. Is there a FreeBSD app >>> that can play this streaming format? >>> >>> I installed XMMS, but I'm not really sure if there is a plugin for >>> these files. >> PLS-files are usually only normal text files containing a playlist of >> music files or URLs to media streams. All you need to do is open the >> PLS-file and write down the URL. mplayer, vlc or xmms should all be able >> to play the music stream. >> >> Andreas > > If you want to use pls files with XMMS, download them first to a > directory with fetch/wget or your browser, then in the lower left corner > of XMMS, click the "+ FILE" button and browse to the pls file. > Unfortunately with XMMS you can't just put the pls file into "Add URL" > like in Winamp. Thanks, this seems to be opening up the stream in XMMS (I'm getting the info for the radio station), but I'm not getting any sound. I get sound just fine if I play an audio CD using xmms. Any ideas why sound wouldn't come out when playing streaming audio? -- Jonathan Arnold (mailto:jdarnold@buddydog.org) Daemon Dancing in the Dark, a FreeBSD weblog: http://freebsd.amazingdev.com/blog/ UNIX is user-friendly. It's just a bit picky about who its friends are.
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