Re: new .WMA stream issue
- From: "Kelly Pierce" <kpierce2000@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <winamp4theblind@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sun, 14 Nov 2004 08:32:27 -0600
Thanks so much. this worked. I didn't think to add the .wma extension to
the second url because the first one had it. Next time, I'll stamp .WMA at
the end of every url in the source file of a windows media playlist and see
what happens in Winamp!
Kelly
----- Original Message -----
From: "Aman Singer" <aasinger@xxxxxxxxxx>
To: <winamp4theblind@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Saturday, November 13, 2004 8:51 PM
Subject: RE: new .WMA stream issue
> Hi, Kelly.
> You're right in all you did, but forgot to take the last part of the
> last step, which is to add /.wma to any URL which doesn't have that at the
> end. The same needs to be done with the CBC's streams, and with most wma
> streams, in fact. Therefore
> http://wma.str3am.com/xpndotorg
> becomes
> http://wma.str3am.com/xpndotorg/.wma
> which works well in Winamp, at least here.
> Aman
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: winamp4theblind-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> [mailto:winamp4theblind-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Kelly Pierce
> Sent: November 13, 2004 9:19 PM
> To: winamp4theblind@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: new .WMA stream issue
>
>
> hello,
>
> I appreciated Aman's suggestions for getting file info for windows media
> streams. One station I would like to listen to very much is WXPN in
> Philadelphia, which is the only radio station in America dedicated to
> broadcasting singer-songwriters 24 hours a day! unfortunately, they only
> stream online in Windows Media. if you go to the listen live link at:
>
> http://www.xpn.org/listen.php
>
> the location of a .ASX (windows Media playlist) file is listed at:
>
> http://love.str3am.com/asx/xpn.asx
>
> As Aman suggested, I wanted the code in this playlist. I downloaded the
> playlist and opened it in Notepad. I will paste it in here at the bottom
> of
>
> the message. I picked through the code and found this link to a .WMA
> file:
>
> http://wma.str3am.com/gateway/WXPNGateway.wma
>
> I pasted this in winamp and it played a message begging me to contribute
> money and making me feel guilty about it. the announcer suggested another
> stream would play but Winamp just went silent. Back to the code in
> Notepad.
>
> I then found another URL for audio content that would play after the funds
> solicitation. it was at:
>
> http://wma.str3am.com/xpndotorg
>
> this is in fact the URL of the stream when the playlist is selected in a
> folder on my hard drive, windows Media Player launches, the solicitation
> is
> played, and the actual station programming is being broadcast. it is the
> same URL in windows media player properties when the station is actually
> playing. When I pasted it in winamp to play, there was no audio.
> however,
> this file does not have a .WMA extension.
>
> what to do now? Any ideas? this seems to be a step beyond extracting
> .WMA
> URL's from CBC .ASX files.
>
> Kelly
>
> Here's the info from the xpn.asx file:
>
> <asx version = "3.0">
> <AUTHOR>88.5 XPN.org</AUTHOR>
> <COPYRIGHT>2003 The Trustees of the University of Pennsylvania</COPYRIGHT>
> <Entry ClientSkip = "no">
> <ref href = "http://wma.str3am.com/gateway/WXPNGateway.wma"/>
> <BANNER HREF="http://xpn.org/imgs/player_support.gif";>
> <ABSTRACT>Click here to support XPN.</ABSTRACT>
> <MOREINFO
> HREF="https://secure.publicbroadcasting.net/wxpn/pledge.pledgemain?action=pl
> edge&pg=pledgeForm"
> />
> </BANNER>
> </entry>
> <Entry>
> <ref href = "http://wma.str3am.com/xpndotorg"/>
> <BANNER HREF="http://xpn.org/imgs/player_support.gif";>
> <ABSTRACT>Click here to support XPN.</ABSTRACT>
> <MOREINFO
> HREF="https://secure.publicbroadcasting.net/wxpn/pledge.pledgemain?action=pl
> edge&pg=pledgeForm"
> />
> </BANNER>
> </entry>
> </asx>
>
>
>
>
>
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