On 11/17/2014 05:46 PM, Kevin Cozens wrote:
On 17/11/2014 2:33 AM, Walter Dnes wrote:
Showing my age here, I like oldies music. An interesting site is http://www.fun45s.com/ but firefox won't play it for me. Fortunately they give the direct stream URL on their homepage. If I try http://s7.voscast.com:8376 or http://www.fun45s.com/listen.pls in firefox, firefox asks for a .pls handler, and I point it to mpg123.
I see from another message you already solved your problem with playing the audio stream. My machine played the sound using the original URL with no problem. Just as an FYI for those "playing along at home" (no pun intended), you can put the URL ending in ".pls" in to VLC and it plays the stream.
Another trick with .pls files if you want to play the stream in something that doesn't handle the .pls files directly is to use wget to retrieve the .pls file then look inside it. It is just a text file and contains the URL with port number that you can put into another player program. I've used that trick so I could use RealPlayer to play audio streams.
Another solution is to use the Tunein app on a tablet or smart phone. You can select from several "radio stations" that way, including some that won't play on Linux, at least not without additional help.