webstreaming

[Mark Constable]

On Sunday 27 March 2005 18:44, musicman wrote:
> Does anyone recommend a music player that copes with urls links?

Usually amarok, xmms, alsaplayer and a few others would work
for the kind of streams I am familiar with.

> for eg, here is a site that has an mp3 link for webstreaming that I
> had working under OS X and XP...but canna get it to "go" under kubuntu
> or ubuntu: http://www.edgeradio.org.au/listen.htm

That's a weird one indeed, for a start there is a space char at the
end of the URL on their page and with or without it does not return
what I would expect from a typical stream that I am used to. If the
URL does not return some mime.type then I'm not sure how you can
get anything to work with it on any playform...

# curl -I http://131.217.118.2:7990/EdgeRadio.mp3%20
curl: (52) Empty reply from server

# curl -I http://131.217.118.2:7990/EdgeRadio.mp3
curl: (52) Empty reply from server

# curl -I 
http://magnatune.com/artists/music/Electronica/Electronica-http_shuffle.m3u
HTTP/1.1 200 OK
Date: Sun, 27 Mar 2005 08:33:55 GMT
Server: Apache/2.0.52 (Unix) mod_ssl/2.0.52 OpenSSL/0.9.6b PHP/4.3.1
Last-Modified: Tue, 08 Mar 2005 10:08:34 GMT
ETag: "1ac0aa-9960-65382c80"
Accept-Ranges: bytes
Content-Length: 39264
Content-Type: audio/x-mpegurl

# curl -I http://somafm.com/groovesalad.pls
HTTP/1.1 200 OK
Date: Sun, 27 Mar 2005 09:07:06 GMT
Server: Apache/1.3.27 (Unix)  (Red-Hat/Linux) mod_ssl/2.8.12 OpenSSL/0.9.6b 
DAV/1.0.3 PHP/4.1.2 mod_perl/1.26
Connection: close
Content-Type: audio/x-scpls

--markc