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[sindi keesan <keesan AT sdf.lonestar.org>]

I have made aliases for playing five radio stations with mpg123 and since 
I cannot recall all the station names, I made a small script: echo 'wdav 
24k, kcme 32k,......' (chmod +x) and called it radio, and put it on the 
path.  I put it, with sound-on, cdr-on, zip-on, scanner-on, etc., in 
/usr/local/sbin.  I can also put the stations on separate lines, just as 
long as I put ' and ' before and after the list.

I type radio for a list of stations, then type the station name.

For some unknown reason, stations with alias in w* show up when I type 
alias (and work when I type their name) but those starting in k* or K* do 
not. I have another alias k - could this somehow interfer?

I added w to kuhf and kcme and now I can type wkuhf and wkcme to get kuhf 
and kcme.

Any idea why k* or K* won't work as an alias?

Is there a better way of doing this which would still let me type the 
radio station call name, but also let me just type its number after 
viewing a menu?  Something like Steven's BL3 xsetup?  Using links and html 
can you click on a link and get a command somehow?

After finding the URLs of useful stations, I no longer need to bother 
using a browser and dealing with playlist .pls or .m3u files.  A lot nicer 
arrangement than realaudio but far less stations available and the only 
ones I got working are in the US. 
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Just lost my station again:

[15.19]  (15 minutes 19 seconds of play?  pretty good)
'Decoding of standard input finished'
This is with wget -O - http:/...... |mpg123 -

I presume standard input paused for too long, which is where a buffer 
would help, or is there some other way around this?

Sindi



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