Hi, Ron. I'll keep playing with these streams. If I find any methods for playing them in Winamp, I'll write about how to do it here. Thanks much for the tips. Evan ----- Original Message ----- From: Ron Canazzi To: winamp4theblind@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Sent: Friday, March 28, 2008 12:38 AM Subject: Re: address for the xm sixties channel Hi Evan, Well you're on the right track. Basically if you choose view link source, or download the pointer file which is possible in most cases, then you bring that file up in a text editor and use trial and error to find the address that works. Generally (though there are exceptions,) the ones with the http prefix can be ruled out unless they are followed by an IP address as in http://24.194.56.38:8000 or something like http://24.195.68.36.m3u More likely candidates are addresses beginning with RTSP (a real stream) or MMS (a windows media stream) Other HTTP prefixes might indicate banner adds, or other graphics for the page and an internal browser plug-in. If you want the windows media streams to play in Winamp add the prefix ?=.wma and in many cases they will play. Also try ?mswmext=.wma which also can work in some cases. There was a guy named Walt on this list who had determined a very sophisticated method of finding streams--even embedded ones (so he says) but the method was so complex that I was never able to get it to work on my systems. ----- Original Message ----- From: EVAN REESE To: winamp4theblind@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Sent: Thursday, March 27, 2008 9:52 PM Subject: Re: address for the xm sixties channel I went over to aolradio.com and selected Edit in Notepad here for one of the XM channels and there's a bunch of urls in here. Thinking that it would be a good strategy to find the url I needed to open in Winamp, I did a search for m3u and pls and found nothing in the file. Which url are you supposed to use to play the stream in Winamp. There doesn't seem to be an obvious candidate for the address to copy over to play in Winamp in this file. I picked a couple of them and removed the quotes and what looked like some other preliminary stuff, but it didn't work. Maybe it's a necessary part of the url? How should I find the correct url to copy over? Thanks for any advice. Evan ----- Original Message ----- From: Marty Rimpau To: winamp4theblind@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Sent: Thursday, March 27, 2008 8:08 PM Subject: Re: address for the xm sixties channel Hi Ivan and all, you can open up either a .m3u or a .pls file with note pad, and get the address of a stream that way, but related, is a problem I'm having, and that is, I thought I remembered that there was a branch of the on line media tree-view that dealt with xm stations, but now, with winamp 5.13, there is only 30 stations total in the winamp library, so, are the xm stations included in the shoutcast radio streams, or are they another branch of the tree-view, because all I see is shoutcast radio, and shoutcast tv, and I couldn't do any search for any xm stations what so ever, so if a o l is cutting back on the xm streams, that is a shame, but at least, I got to hear the Jackson Armstrong tribute, though, I didn't hear any stuff from the west coast, and we should have, since he was out here. --Original Message Text--- From: EVAN REESE Date: Thu, 27 Mar 2008 19:54:54 -0400 I'm not sure how you find them. I got the list of about fifty or so from someone whom I believe is, or was at least, on this list. You can go to aol.com or the XM web site and play the stations, but they use a special player for that. I think there's a way to get those stream addresses out of the stand-alone players and into Winamp, but I don't know how to do it. I hope that is still possible, though, and that I can learn how if these addresses change at the end of April. If they stop playing them through AOL, it's a sure bet that they will. Evan ----- Original Message ----- From: Jim To: winamp4theblind@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Sent: Thursday, March 27, 2008 7:36 PM Subject: Re: address for the xm sixties channel Hi, How do you find other XM channels? Thanks. Jim ----- Original Message ----- From: EVAN REESE To: winamp4theblind@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Sent: Thursday, March 27, 2008 9:06 AM Subject: Re: address for the xm sixties channel Here is the address for the Sixties on 6 channel as copied directly from my Winamp Bookmarks file. I assure you it works, having just tested it. It's quite long, though. I've isolated it with a couple of blank lines around it so as you can copy and paste it with confidence. <smile> I also heard Armstrong in Pittsburgh in the mid 70s on a station called 13Q. I have heard few -- if anyone -- who could talk so fast, or so energetically. I wonder how much coffee that guy drank, or was it something with more stimulating power? <grin> uvox://firehose-bbnm.stream.aol.com/stream/22219?authToken=r%3D6589521%26sid%3D21719%26expires%3D1172625287107%26csum%3Df16bf38977fd914dfad5b15e4dead993&uid=WA-09DB407D02034BE1A25476C4E10577F0&sessid=8F7C51333AC34F86ABB226F9FDEEAB09 ----- Original Message ----- From: GEORGE AND PAMELA DOMINGUEZ To: winamp4theblind@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Sent: Thursday, March 27, 2008 8:52 AM Subject: Re: address for the xm sixties channel Where? You didn't give it in that email, you just said "Here it be". Then you had all your information after that. Pam. ----- Original Message ----- From: Lino Morales To: winamp4theblind@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Sent: Thursday, March 27, 2008 2:16 AM Subject: Re: address for the xm sixties channel Marty, Here it be. Lino Morales and Louie Lab Email and Windows Live Messenger: lmorales@xxxxxxxxxxx Skype: lino_and_louie ----- Original Message ----- From: "Marty Rimpau" <mrimpau@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> To: "winamp for the blind list" <winamp4theblind@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Sent: Thursday, March 27, 2008 2:07 AM Subject: address for the xm sixties channel Hi all, maybe I'm out of touch, but I'm using winamp 5.13, and need the address, or the .pls file for xm sixties, if it is still on winamp, because we lost a legendary disk jocky on Saturday named Jackson Armstrong at age 62, and Terry Young will do a tribute to him tomorrow on xm sixties, on his show from 1 to 6 pm, pacific time, or 4 to 9 pm eastern, or from Thursday, 20 to Friday morning 01 u t c, and once foofling with the winamp 5.13 library, I could only find four entries under the oldies portion of the combo box, and I have put the number of entries under manage views to 10,000, so maybe an appropriate question would be, is xm even being offered in winamp anymore, because I don't have a receiver or anything, and my existing uvox file didn't work, so if somebody has the current address for the xm sixties and seventies streams, if they are still available in winamp, it would greatly be appreciated, as I only found 30 total entries in the winamp library, and thanks in advance very much, but I wanted to hear this tribute to a legendary talent, Jackson Armstrong. 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