[mad-user] Playing Internet Streams with Madplay

[Rob Leslie]

On Oct 8, 2006, at 11:30 AM, Mark Kane wrote:
> This may be a stupid question, but I've read through the madplay  
> man page and online documentation several times and I cannot get an  
> MP3 Internet radio station (SHOUTcast) to play with madplay.
>
> Every time I try on the command line, I get:
>
> ------------------------------------------------------
> [mixx941 at amd64:~]% madplay http://stream.com:8000
> MPEG Audio Decoder 0.15.2 (beta) - Copyright (C) 2000-2004 Robert  
> Leslie et al.
> http://stream.com:8000: No such file or directory
> ------------------------------------------------------

There's no network streaming support in madplay; to play a stream  
this way, you could instead:

   % wget -O - http://stream.com:8000 | madplay -

> I've tried with and without the trailing slash on the URL, with/ 
> without quotes on the URL, and adding the "listen.pls" at the end.  
> Still the same. Tried downloading the .pls and playing it from the  
> file, although that gives this:
>
> ------------------------------------------------------
> [mixx941 at amd64:~]% madplay listen.pls
> MPEG Audio Decoder 0.15.2 (beta) - Copyright (C) 2000-2004 Robert  
> Leslie et al.
> error: frame 0: lost synchronization
> 0 frames decoded (0:00:00.0), -inf dB peak amplitude, 0 clipped  
> samples
> [mixx941 at amd64:~]%
> ------------------------------------------------------

There is no playlist support in madplay either, sorry.

-- 
Rob Leslie
rob at mars.org