Good morning,
I've been wanting to listen to live streaming FM-radio broadcasts on-line. I'm using Firefox (current as of last Thursday) and f-23 (current as of last Thursday). If it matters, I'm using Gnome.
One I've tried is here: "http://www.wbjc.com/". When I click the "iTunes/mp3" button, a dialogue pops up saying it wants to open "listen.pls" which is an "MP3 ShoutCast playlist" from "http://wbjc-sc.streamguys.org", and it launches Rhythmbox. But I can't get it to give me music.
On the same page, when I click the "Windows Media" button, a dialogue pops up saying it wants to open "wbjc" which is an "ASF video" from "http://vista.streamguys.com", and it launches Videos. Nothing more happens; I can't get Videos to give me music.
I try another station: "http://www.cpr.org/classical". I click the arrow near the top. I hear nothing. On the "http://www.cpr.org/listen/streaming" page, I try... 1. the Classical "MP3 Stream" "Listen" option. The pop-up says it's trying to open "live_classical_mp3.pls" which is a "PLS file" from "http://livestream.cprnetwork.org". But it doesn't find any application for such files. 2. the Classical "Windows Media Player Stream" "Listen" option. The pop-up says it's trying to open "listenClassical.asx" which is an "ASF video" from "http://livestream.cprnetwork.org", and launches "Videos". Nothing more happens; I can't get Videos to give me music. 3. the Classical "High-Quality AAC Stream" "Listen" option. The pop-up says it's trying to open "live_classical_aac.pls" which is a "PLS file" from "http://livestream.cprnetwork.org". But it doesn't find any application for such files.
One more site: "http://pipedreams.publicradio.org/listings/2016/1628/". When I click the "Complete Show" link, I get a little pop-up saying "To view this content, Javascript must be enabled and Adobe Flash Player must be installed.". (Javascript is enabled.) I also tried "http://www.yourclassical.org/programs/pipedreams/episodes". When I click the Play arrow, I get a message at the bottom of the page saying "We're sorry, but your browser is not able to play the stream. Please try one of these options: 1) Install or enable Adobe Flash Player 2) Use a browser that supports HTML5 and MP3 audio, such as Chrome, Safari, or Internet Explorer 9 3) download the video. (I thought Forefox does support html5!)
In fedora, using Firefox, how can I listen to these? What's the best fedora application for this?
A related issue (I can move this to a separate topic if y'all prefer) I can't get "Videos" to work with anything. The video area is always solid black and the audio gives me silence when I put a dvd into the player, or when something on the web causes Videos to be launched. I can't find any way of configuring it. How do I get it to work?
Thanks, Bill.
On 07/12/2016 10:28 AM, William wrote:
Good morning,
I've been wanting to listen to live streaming FM-radio broadcasts on-line. I'm using Firefox (current as of last Thursday) and f-23 (current as of last Thursday). If it matters, I'm using Gnome.
One I've tried is here: "http://www.wbjc.com/". When I click the "iTunes/mp3" button, a dialogue pops up saying it wants to open "listen.pls" which is an "MP3 ShoutCast playlist" from "http://wbjc-sc.streamguys.org", and it launches Rhythmbox. But I can't get it to give me music.
On the same page, when I click the "Windows Media" button, a dialogue pops up saying it wants to open "wbjc" which is an "ASF video" from "http://vista.streamguys.com", and it launches Videos. Nothing more happens; I can't get Videos to give me music.
Pretty much any media player that has a "Open network stream" or "Play stream" option can accept the .pls file. First, right click on the "iTunes/mp3" button and copy the link to your clipboard.
I've tested it on "VLC media player":
Media->Open Network Stream->(paste in your clipboard)
I've also tried Amarok:
Playlist->Add Stream->(paste in your clipboard)
I try another station: "http://www.cpr.org/classical". I click the arrow near the top. I hear nothing. On the "http://www.cpr.org/listen/streaming" page, I try...
- the Classical "MP3 Stream" "Listen" option. The pop-up says it's
trying to open "live_classical_mp3.pls" which is a "PLS file" from "http://livestream.cprnetwork.org". But it doesn't find any application for such files. 2. the Classical "Windows Media Player Stream" "Listen" option. The pop-up says it's trying to open "listenClassical.asx" which is an "ASF video" from "http://livestream.cprnetwork.org", and launches "Videos". Nothing more happens; I can't get Videos to give me music. 3. the Classical "High-Quality AAC Stream" "Listen" option. The pop-up says it's trying to open "live_classical_aac.pls" which is a "PLS file" from "http://livestream.cprnetwork.org". But it doesn't find any application for such files.
Note that .pls files are Shoutcast playlists. In the playlist is the actual location of the stream. In this case, the playlist looks like:
[playlist] NumberOfEntries=1 File1=http://wbjc-sc.streamguys.org:80/
So, you can either enter the URL from the "File1" line or the .pls URL into any media player that understands Shoutcast streams.
One more site: "http://pipedreams.publicradio.org/listings/2016/1628/". When I click the "Complete Show" link, I get a little pop-up saying "To view this content, Javascript must be enabled and Adobe Flash Player must be installed.". (Javascript is enabled.) I also tried "http://www.yourclassical.org/programs/pipedreams/episodes". When I click the Play arrow, I get a message at the bottom of the page saying "We're sorry, but your browser is not able to play the stream. Please try one of these options: 1) Install or enable Adobe Flash Player 2) Use a browser that supports HTML5 and MP3 audio, such as Chrome, Safari, or Internet Explorer 9 3) download the video. (I thought Forefox does support html5!)
In fedora, using Firefox, how can I listen to these? What's the best fedora application for this?
A related issue (I can move this to a separate topic if y'all prefer) I can't get "Videos" to work with anything. The video area is always solid black and the audio gives me silence when I put a dvd into the player, or when something on the web causes Videos to be launched. I can't find any way of configuring it. How do I get it to work?
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2016-07-12 19:28 GMT+02:00, William mattison.computer@yahoo.com:
Good morning,
I've been wanting to listen to live streaming FM-radio broadcasts on-line. I'm using Firefox (current as of last Thursday) and f-23 (current as of last Thursday). If it matters, I'm using Gnome.
One I've tried is here: "http://www.wbjc.com/". When I click the "iTunes/mp3" button, a dialogue pops up saying it wants to open "listen.pls" which is an "MP3 ShoutCast playlist" from "http://wbjc-sc.streamguys.org", and it launches Rhythmbox. But I can't get it to give me music.
You can save that link by right-clicking on the button and chosing 'Save Link As...'. Then feed the saved file (listen.pls) to mplayer like this:
mplayer -playlist listen.pls
Next time you want to listen to it, you don't even need firefox (assuming the link in list.pls doesn't change often).
One more site: "http://pipedreams.publicradio.org/listings/2016/1628/". When I click the "Complete Show" link, I get a little pop-up saying "To view this content, Javascript must be enabled and Adobe Flash Player must be installed.". (Javascript is enabled.) I also tried "http://www.yourclassical.org/programs/pipedreams/episodes". When I click the Play arrow, I get a message at the bottom of the page saying "We're sorry, but your browser is not able to play the stream. Please try one of these options: 1) Install or enable Adobe Flash Player 2) Use a browser that supports HTML5 and MP3 audio, such as Chrome, Safari, or Internet Explorer 9 3) download the video. (I thought Forefox does support html5!)
I know this is not much help to you, but it works here (fully updated Fedora 22). And I _think_ that Flash Player is not involved.
Andras
On Wed, Jul 13, 2016 at 4:10 AM, Andras Simon szajmi@gmail.com wrote:
2016-07-12 19:28 GMT+02:00, William mattison.computer@yahoo.com:
Good morning,
I've been wanting to listen to live streaming FM-radio broadcasts on-line. I'm using Firefox (current as of last Thursday) and f-23 (current as of last Thursday). If it matters, I'm using Gnome.
One I've tried is here: "http://www.wbjc.com/". When I click the "iTunes/mp3" button, a dialogue pops up saying it wants to open "listen.pls" which is an "MP3 ShoutCast playlist" from "http://wbjc-sc.streamguys.org", and it launches Rhythmbox. But I can't get it to give me music.
You can save that link by right-clicking on the button and chosing 'Save Link As...'. Then feed the saved file (listen.pls) to mplayer like this:
mplayer -playlist listen.pls
Next time you want to listen to it, you don't even need firefox (assuming the link in list.pls doesn't change often).
Once you copy this link as described above just about any player should take it....
Rhythmbox is entered either File -> Playlist -> Load from file... -> listen.pls [or any other pls file you have] or...
If you "Copy link address", usually just below the save option, you can Library -> Radio -> Add which will self populate the copied url. Hit return and enjoy the station.
VLC is similar with the copy url option... Media -> Open file -> listen.pls Media -> Open location from clipboard [hotkey= ctrl+v]
Parole Media player failed the open location option under Media with a Gstreamer backend error but... Media -> Open -> listen.pls [from the saved file] work just fine.
I tested these with your link, nice station btw, and am just establishing a pattern. Look into your favorite app for listening and either open the saved *.pls file or open link option and copy from clipboard. Either way works in most cases. I download my list of favorite station on DI.fm and others into a .pls file and this allows me to load all my stations at once in Rhythmbox making recovery a breeze if I have to rebuild. HTH.
-- Fred
(just closing this "properly". my apologies for the earlier mistake in the subject line.)
Neither VLC nor Amarok seem to come with Fedora. But late last night, I found VLC with "apper" and downloaded it. I got it to work for the two radio stations. It did not help with "Pipedreams". (By the way, Pipedreams is *not* a radio station.) Now this morning, the buttons on the second link (http://www.yourclassical.org/programs/pipedreams/episodes) for Pipedreams does work! The buttons on the first link (http://pipedreams.publicradio.org/listings/2016/1628/) still don't work. I'll open a new thread on that later, mainly focused on adobe applications. (see the thread "application to listen to on-line broadcasts? [SOLVED]")
Since VLC worked, I did not try the others.
I thank Rick, Andras, and Fred for their help.
Bill.
On Wed, 2016-07-13 at 16:46 -0600, William wrote:
Neither VLC nor Amarok seem to come with Fedora
My (old) version of Fedora has VLC installed from the RPM Fusion repos, most likely because it includes encumbered codecs. It is one of the players that handles just about everything you can throw at it. And it's cross-platform, giving it has a very wide userbase, so it's probably not going to go away.
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