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  • From: Ron Clarke <ariadne AT earthlink.com.au>
  • To: baslinux AT lists.ibiblio.org
  • Subject: Re: [BL] mplayer
  • Date: Wed, 22 Jun 2005 12:29:19 +1000

Hi Folks,

On Wed, 22 Jun 2005 11:13:32 +1200
3aoo-cvfd AT dea.spamcon.org wrote:

> For those of you interested in using mplayer to listen
> to radio stations via the internet, you can use links
> (in BL2 or BL3) to act as a selector for Shoutcast.
> Shoutcast has hundreds of different radio stations.
>
> Just add the following two lines to links.cfg
> (under .links in your home directory):
> ----------------------------------------------------------------
> extension "pls" "audio/x-scpls
> association "mplayer" "audio/x-scpls" "mplayer -playlist %" 19 1
> ----------------------------------------------------------------
>
> Then start links and go to:
> -------------------------------------------------
> http://www.shoutcast.com/directory/?maxbitrate=56
> -------------------------------------------------
> That's for dial-up users. If you have broadband, you can
> drop the ?maxbitrate=56. Or, if you have slower dialup,
> you can reduce the 56.

It works for me. I am currently listening to Doc Watson on a bluegrass
station in the USA via my dialup in Oz.

Regards,
Ron

--
Ron Clarke
AUSREG Consultancy http://www.ausreg.com
Tadpole Tunes http://tadpole.mytunebook.de/
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