Radio N Friday night: Red hot shoutcast lovin'

[docwebster]

You know the drill, folks. I'll on IRC in #rf-callahans and #RadioNosferatu on Undernet, plus I'll be on AIM and Yahoo IM as docwebstr .

The best thing to use to listen to the stream is Winamp, of course, and you can find the version I myself use here.

NOTE: Just right click and Save As, then run it to install.

From there, it depends on what kind of connect speed you have:

Dialup, I'd go with the Low feed. DSL and above, I'd try the high feed first.

You can also use RealPlayer 7 and above, as well as (as far as I know) Windows Media Player 9. As far as WMP goes, I haven't tried it with any of the earlier releases.

The absolute best way to listen in, at least for me, is to find whatever command your player uses for Add URL or Open URL, something like that.

With Winamp, it's Ctrl-L and you cut/paste one of the two addies in, hit open to exit the URL window, and hit play. You should be good to go from there.

If you want to make requests, go to http://rhis.2ya.com and off on the left hand side of the screen is a link to PlayList & Requests. Go there, click on the style of music you want, click on the Request link by the song you want and hey presto.

Anyway, let's do this.


low

http://callahans.seanmcpherson.com:10000/listen.pls

high

http://callahans.seanmcpherson.com:11000/listen.pls

http://rhis.2ya.com for reqs

Comments

[yobadself.livejournal.com]

You gotta read what I just posted.

Windows Media Player and PLS/Streaming

[greyman.livejournal.com]

WMP does not automagically handle your URLs. Here is a utility which helps:

http://weblogs.asp.net/jgalloway/archive/2004/04/08/109672.aspx

1) Go to the web page. Right click on the download link and save as.
2) Move the OpenPLSInWM.EXE file to its final resting place. I ended up putting mine in my Windows Media Player program directory.
3) Right click on one of your URLs, and Save As (a file). This will create a LISTEN.PLS file somewhere.
4) Right Click on LISTEN.PLS, and choose "Open With"
5) Browse to OpenPLSInWM.EXE, and select it.
6) Check "always use the selected program to open this file" and hit OK.

Now you can use WMP to listen to PLS streaming audio. If you need to move the OpenPLSInWM.EXE file at some point you will have to yank out all the registry keys containing PLS in the name and start over, hence "final resting place" in step 2.

It's a hassle, but if your workplace frowns on WinAMP on their computers... they might miss this small utility. I cannot vouch for the security of this approach.

It *sounds* just fine.

The comment you never thought you'd read

[kyra-ojosverdes.livejournal.com]

I'm listening! :-o

Re: The comment you never thought you'd read

[docwebster.livejournal.com]

Yay!