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["David Moberg" <davidjmoberg AT lycos.com>]

Steven Darnold 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.

Very interesting, Steven, and a clever use for MPlayer. I had no
idea that the "-playlist" option existed. Moral of the story:
it pays to read the manpage.

David

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