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[Ron Clarke <ariadne AT earthlink.com.au>]

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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