Using XMMS properly with SHOUTCAST

ChojinDSL · l33t Joined: 07 Jul 2003 Posts: 783

Ok, I just figured this out and I think I remember reading a post somewhere about someone who didnt know how to do it so that xmms not only plays shoutcast (.pls) links directly by just clicking on them, but also so that xmms displays which song is being played at the moment via shoutcast stream.

Ok, first of all, open preferences in XMMS, click on the" Audio I/O Plugins" tab and highlight "MPEG Layer 1/2/3"

Then click on configure. In the new window that opens, click on the streaming tab and activate both the "Enable SHOUT/Icecast title Streaming" and "Enable Icecast Metadat UDP Channel".

Ok, once thats done, all you need to do is tell your browser what to do with .pls files.
Since I use Opera, I'll simply tell you how I did it there.
Go to the shoutcast website, www.shoutcast.com and click on one of the "tune in" links, a dialog should pop up asking what to do with the file. Click on "advanced" and then simply select the option "open with other application" in the field there just enter xmms. DO NOT activate the "pass web address directly to application". Then just click on OK or APPLY or whatever and your done.

Now whenever you click on a "tune in" link on the shoutcast page, xmms will automatically load, list all the addressess for the clicked link in the playlist and start playing it.

Just like Winamp under windows.

I havent tried this with any other browser, but my guess is, that you just need to let the browser know what to do with ".pls" links.

Feel free to add procedures for other browsers if the process varies greatly from my description.

pYrania · Posted: Tue Jul 22, 2003 2:49 pm Post subject:

The mimetype is audio/x-scpls.
In most browsers (apart of mine

) you can specify the applications to load by mimetype.
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ChojinDSL · l33t Joined: 07 Jul 2003 Posts: 783

Which browser do you use?

pYrania · Posted: Tue Jul 22, 2003 4:05 pm Post subject:

This would be MozillaFirebird.
If you click on "Tune In" you get the option to specify the program to run it with and it will automatically save it to its configuration.
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Squinky86 · Posted: Tue Jul 22, 2003 4:57 pm Post subject:

Ah, thank you! I never noticed that option to display the song name.
Now, back to my classical music...
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theplatypus · n00b Joined: 03 Sep 2002 Posts: 44

Works great, thanks for the tip

Black · Posted: Sun Jul 27, 2003 2:58 pm Post subject:

Hmmfff... Konqueror doesn't seem to play nice on that one. I click on the link, it asks me if I want to open it using XMMS, where I say yes. XMMS opens, but then asks me which file to open.

I guess it's because Konqueror sends the URL to XMMS. Any help here?

equilibrium · Apprentice Joined: 29 Jun 2003 Posts: 213 Location: UK

nice

but to get MozillaFirebird to run the file with xmms I had to type "/usr/bin/xmms" as typing "xmms" didn't work

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cdunham · Posted: Sun Aug 03, 2003 5:24 pm Post subject:

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Balthasar · n00b Joined: 25 May 2003 Posts: 62 Location: Florida

I just tried specifying the program to open with as /usr/bin/xmms -e
and that gave me an error, is there maybe a way to have the "Tune in" enqueued instead of erasing the playlist ?
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cdunham · Posted: Mon Aug 04, 2003 12:07 am Post subject:

Black · Posted: Mon Aug 04, 2003 2:20 am Post subject:

Well, fixed it with your help!

I was about to try adding the "-e" flag, then I realized Konqueror was running "xmms %U", instead of "xmms %F", so I changed it to %F, which did the trick.

%U must send the URL. I couldn't find help on the file associations when I asked.

triad · Posted: Mon Aug 04, 2003 2:44 am Post subject:

Great TIP thanks!

Triad