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  • From: sindi keesan <keesan AT sdf.lonestar.org>
  • To: baslinux AT lists.ibiblio.org
  • Subject: Re: BL streaming MP3, was Re: [BL] Re: broken windows needs replacing
  • Date: Sat, 23 Apr 2005 00:15:35 +0000 (UTC)

On Fri, 22 Apr 2005, David Moberg wrote:

----- Original Message -----
From: "sindi keesan" <keesan AT sdf.lonestar.org>

wget -O - http://audio.ibiblio.org:8000/wdav-24k| mpg123 - works


Much of the time, even in the middle of the day, I still get 504
busy messages at this site but if I 'attack dial' after 2-3 tries I
get through. I just keep hitting the up arrow to repeat my
previous command but one time I got a '404 not found'. Odd.

That server's going to have a short lifespan, if it's _that_ overloaded.
It must be a very popular station.

I just tried using wget on that URL. I got a good connection on all three
tries. Perhaps ibiblio is trying to cut costs by hosting many things on
one server?
Only classical station I could find at 20K, mono.


The problem is that I keep losing the station - when there is too
big a cutout it seems to time out or something and I have to start
over. 1-2 sec is okay, it comes back. Has been okay now for a
minute, no gaps.

It is not ideal to listen with frequent gaps but the quality is
quite a bit better otherwise than a hissy station from 75 miles
away broadcast over the air.

Do you know if it's mpg123 or wget that's timing out? wget has a
-T option which lets you adjust the timeout in seconds.

BL2 busybox wget does not have this option. I should install the full wget some time. I think it is mpg123 that is timing out, anyway I get a message from mpg123 when it runs out of things to play. I could try without wget some time during frequent timeouts.



This approach does NOT work (nothing happens) with stations of the format

http://www.live365.com/play/kcme, but plain mpg123 works on them.

I just tried that. It works here. For some strange reason, the server says
that it's a 44MB file, instead of an unlimited one.

You must have a better wget than I do. I will get another and try again but first I have to find a way to extract a scanned image from a .doc file. Good time to get Abiword working in BL2 with xvesa - I could not manage to use it with chroot to BL3. Antiword produces a ps file that crashes X and which bmv (svgalib) displays as a blank. I asked specifically for png, gif, pbm, or pdf. I got doc, 1.7MB of it.

If you want to compile something useful, how about wvware for Bl2 and BL3? I have an old DOS version that has succeeded on WORD files which catdoc and antiword could not handle. It requires downloading at least two files of source code. I can try it myself but am set up with 2.2.5 not 2.1.3.


David, thanks for all the help with this and let me know if you
have other ideas for buffering. This will help keep the office
temperature down slightly if I listen to streaming MP3 in the
summer instead of the radio.

I don't understand how this cools things down. Last time I checked,
a PC puts out more heat than a radio.

The PC is already running when I am online. My TTL monitor is not too hot.

I have a pair of nice Spacetech
battery-operated speakers that work without a battery and the
default volume (the battery is used to decrease vol) is fine for
this station

I can't stop listening to this station (kcme). :) Currently listening
to it on the stereo+subwoofer speaker set which I got for Xmas. You
can definitely tell that it's a low-bandwidth mp3, but it sounds nice.
I can hear all of the instruments (strings, cello, some kind of woodwind).
The higher pitched strings sound somewhat like white noise. The cello
sounds great.

Yes, it is a nice station. I also liked wdav. wuol had good music but seemed to lose bits more often. kuhf may be an opera-only station. wmnr tends to the modern. There are lots more stations listed at that publicradiofan site I mentioned but most are 56K. And www.live365.com has plenty of stations - can you get it working if you sign in and use Mozilla? change kcme to whrb to get a 56K station.

but does slackware provide some vol control and if so
in what packages? Not in sox (which has play for wav files), or
mp3 (mpg123) or workbone (cd player), all in /ap1.

aumix is a good choice. You can use it in X11 or from ncurses. It
should be in some package. I'm not sure which.

wdav has been behaving very nicely and plays only good music. (I
spoke too soon, more frequent cutouts).

I got a couple of cutouts when I first started listening to kcme. It's
been playing perfectly ever since. ifconfig reports that I'm getting it
at 4KB/sec, give or take.

That is more than my 4200 connection can probably handle. It claims to be 32K broadcast.


Woops. I take that perfect playback part back. About 30 seconds ago it
cut out with white noise for about a second. It's been perfect since
then.
Lucky you. Thanks for helping me find it.

Too many new toys, as usual. Still working on netpbm package and the parport zip project but I need to un-doc a translation first.


David
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