#290913 - 29/11/2006 14:05
Streaming Radio Stations (Attn: dbrashear)
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Registered: 21/01/2002
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Really a question for Derek, but I thought it would be beneficial for everyone else, too. I've moved away from my favorite radio station, CD101 in Columbus. I can stream the station over the internet, it doesn't sound TOO bad, good enough for background music. If I do really critical listening, I usually get the CD and listen to it that way. I mainly use CD101 to find new music that I like. Currently I'm using the web-based "listen live" link on the website which launches an ad window with an embedded application/x-mplayer2 stream. I have the mplayer plugin for Firefox (I'm running Ubuntu) and it will play for me but I don't see any title or track info for the stream. Is there a better way to stream the audio on Linux? Any other streams I should look into? I would love to get NPR also.
Edited by cushman (29/11/2006 14:05)
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#290915 - 01/12/2006 18:57
Re: Streaming Radio Stations (Attn: dbrashear)
[Re: cushman]
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carpal tunnel
Registered: 25/12/2000
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Is there any reason you thought it would have metadata? I don't seem to see it on the web page. Is it there for you?
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#290916 - 01/12/2006 23:52
Re: Streaming Radio Stations (Attn: dbrashear)
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The only reason I guess was that they used to have a "Now Playing" block in the title on their homepage and I was hoping since that data was available at one point that they would make it available via the audio stream. I used to run a Shoutcast server when I worked in the office and the title/track was streamed along with the audio. Wishful thinking, I guess. Since I use the radio station to find new music it makes it a lot easier to see who I'm listening to.
Plus I'm spoiled from the Empeg. Whenever I'm listening to the radio in the car I always keep looking down to see the artist and track that's playing - only to see a blank screen.
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#290917 - 02/12/2006 00:46
Re: Streaming Radio Stations (Attn: dbrashear)
[Re: cushman]
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carpal tunnel
Registered: 25/12/2000
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It's certainly technically feasible with the WMA streaming they're doing. They just don't seem to actually do it.
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#290918 - 02/12/2006 12:44
Re: Streaming Radio Stations (Attn: dbrashear)
[Re: cushman]
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carpal tunnel
Registered: 24/01/2002
Posts: 3937
Loc: Providence, RI
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Really a question for Derek, but I thought it would be beneficial for everyone else, too. I've moved away from my favorite radio station, CD101 in Columbus. I can stream the station over the internet, it doesn't sound TOO bad, good enough for background music. If I do really critical listening, I usually get the CD and listen to it that way. I mainly use CD101 to find new music that I like.
Me too.
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Currently I'm using the web-based "listen live" link on the website which launches an ad window with an embedded application/x-mplayer2 stream. I have the mplayer plugin for Firefox (I'm running Ubuntu) and it will play for me but I don't see any title or track info for the stream. Is there a better way to stream the audio on Linux? Any other streams I should look into? I would love to get NPR also.
I scraped the url by snooping with tcpdump.
http://wmlive.vitalstreamcdn.com/live_eonwmss_vitalstream_com_Independent-WWCDFM
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#290919 - 02/12/2006 12:46
Re: Streaming Radio Stations (Attn: dbrashear)
[Re: wfaulk]
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carpal tunnel
Registered: 24/01/2002
Posts: 3937
Loc: Providence, RI
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Is there any reason you thought it would have metadata? I don't seem to see it on the web page. Is it there for you?
They used to have a frame with the track info. It broke. Now you have to get it from the cd101 music store, which is flash. Someday I will take gnash and see if it can play it, and if so I will do a stripped version which just does track info.
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#290920 - 02/12/2006 12:54
Re: Streaming Radio Stations (Attn: dbrashear)
[Re: cushman]
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carpal tunnel
Registered: 24/01/2002
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Loc: Providence, RI
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Well, I found the URL for the stream, and I can open it directly in VLC.
http://players.eonstreams.com/FastAim/Player/Play.php?PulseID=103132427&SecurityKey=32835
Or I think the real root URI is:
<a href="mmsh://mmslb.eonstreams.com/cd101_oh_columbus_wwcd_fm_fast" target="_blank">mmsh://mmslb.eonstreams.com/cd101_oh_columbus_wwcd_fm_fast</a>
Do you get commercials? For a while that stream was dropping out entirely at commercials, and the one I posted had internet-only liners inserted over them, but they seem to have fixed that.
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#290921 - 02/12/2006 16:01
Re: Streaming Radio Stations (Attn: dbrashear)
[Re: Daria]
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Registered: 21/01/2002
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Yes, I hear the commercials. If you ever get the track info scraping thing going, let me know - I'd be very interested.
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#290922 - 02/12/2006 16:18
Re: Streaming Radio Stations (Attn: dbrashear)
[Re: cushman]
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pooh-bah
Registered: 06/04/2005
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Loc: Seattle transplant
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I've moved away from my favorite radio station, CD101 in Columbus.
Wow, this thread is like a blast from the past for me. I was at OSU from 96-00, my only time in Ohio. I didn't know how much I missed CD101 until I clicked these links, so Thanks!
/Go Bucks!
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#290923 - 03/12/2006 01:02
Re: Streaming Radio Stations (Attn: dbrashear)
[Re: cushman]
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carpal tunnel
Registered: 24/01/2002
Posts: 3937
Loc: Providence, RI
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Yes, I hear the commercials. If you ever get the track info scraping thing going, let me know - I'd be very interested.
If i get spare time this week maybe I'll try building gnash and see what happens.
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#290924 - 03/12/2006 01:53
Re: Streaming Radio Stations (Attn: dbrashear)
[Re: Robotic]
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Go Bucks!
They kicked me out of Ohio because I didn't like football. 
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#306442 - 22/01/2008 15:41
Re: Streaming Radio Stations (Attn: dbrashear)
[Re: cushman]
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carpal tunnel
Registered: 24/01/2002
Posts: 3937
Loc: Providence, RI
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Fwiw, now at
[url=mms://wmc2.liquidcompass.cc/WWCD?MSWMExt=.asf][url=mms://wmc2.liquidcompass.cc/WWCD?MSWMExt=.asf][url=mms://wmc2.liquidcompass.cc/WWCD?MSWMExt=.asf]mms://wmc2.liquidcompass.cc/WWCD?MSWMExt=.asf[/url][/url][/url]
And I need VLC to listen. I wonder if this screws up my stream-to-empeg method.
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#347153 - 29/08/2011 00:58
Re: Streaming Radio Stations (Attn: dbrashear)
[Re: Daria]
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carpal tunnel
Registered: 24/01/2002
Posts: 3937
Loc: Providence, RI
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they finally broke it in the first week of June, and I have now been cast adrift for discovering new music.
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