From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Feb 2 20:11:24 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2BEA316A420 for ; Thu, 2 Feb 2006 20:11:24 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from freebsd-questions@m.gmane.org) Received: from ciao.gmane.org (main.gmane.org [80.91.229.2]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D596143D4C for ; Thu, 2 Feb 2006 20:11:22 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from freebsd-questions@m.gmane.org) Received: from list by ciao.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.43) id 1F4kmu-0006ST-VV for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Thu, 02 Feb 2006 21:10:41 +0100 Received: from c-24-147-87-49.hsd1.ma.comcast.net ([24.147.87.49]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Thu, 02 Feb 2006 21:10:40 +0100 Received: from jdarnold by c-24-147-87-49.hsd1.ma.comcast.net with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Thu, 02 Feb 2006 21:10:40 +0100 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org From: JD Arnold Date: Thu, 02 Feb 2006 15:10:44 -0500 Organization: Amazing Developments Lines: 37 Message-ID: References: <43E133F4.3020106@mkproductions.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-15; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: c-24-147-87-49.hsd1.ma.comcast.net User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5 (Windows/20051201) In-Reply-To: <43E133F4.3020106@mkproductions.org> Sender: news Subject: Re: Playing streaming music X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 02 Feb 2006 20:11:24 -0000 Mark Kane wrote: > Andreas Rudisch wrote: >> On Wed, 01 Feb 2006 22:12:41 +0100, JD Arnold >> wrote: >> >>> Now that I have my sound card working, I was wondering if there is a >>> port to play streaming music from my favorite college radio station? >>> The live streams from http://www.wzbc.org send me "PLS" files, which >>> I understand to be WinAmp "playlist" files. Is there a FreeBSD app >>> that can play this streaming format? >>> >>> I installed XMMS, but I'm not really sure if there is a plugin for >>> these files. >> PLS-files are usually only normal text files containing a playlist of >> music files or URLs to media streams. All you need to do is open the >> PLS-file and write down the URL. mplayer, vlc or xmms should all be able >> to play the music stream. >> >> Andreas > > If you want to use pls files with XMMS, download them first to a > directory with fetch/wget or your browser, then in the lower left corner > of XMMS, click the "+ FILE" button and browse to the pls file. > Unfortunately with XMMS you can't just put the pls file into "Add URL" > like in Winamp. Thanks, this seems to be opening up the stream in XMMS (I'm getting the info for the radio station), but I'm not getting any sound. I get sound just fine if I play an audio CD using xmms. Any ideas why sound wouldn't come out when playing streaming audio? -- Jonathan Arnold (mailto:jdarnold@buddydog.org) Daemon Dancing in the Dark, a FreeBSD weblog: http://freebsd.amazingdev.com/blog/ UNIX is user-friendly. It's just a bit picky about who its friends are.