thanks Chris. well that is very interesting. I will try to contact winamp through winamp.com because the older version 5.35 works fine. It is neat though how you figured this all out. thank you very much. I will come and get you when I have more trouble. hahahahah ----- Original Message ----- From: "Chris Skarstad" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "PC Audio Discussion List" <pc-audio@pc-audio.org> Sent: Thursday, October 25, 2007 6:09 PM Subject: Re: the paul harvey site
> Hi Steve > After doing a bit of investigation, it really does look like you > might be better off just letting windows media player handle the > job. You *can* get Winamp to play the thing, but you have to jump > through a lot of hoops and I don't know how dedicated you are to > actually doing this? here's what I had to do to get it to work here, > and granted it might not even work for other folks. > 1. I visited the site as you suggested, but instead of clicking on > the link first, i right clicked and chose save target as... and > looked at the file extention. it's a .asx file, which is a playlist > containing an address for a windows media stream, or in this case an > archive. > 2. I clicked open to see what would happen. Just like with yours, > Winamp came up and it tried, unsuccessfully, to play 2 different > files, I believe one of them was probably some kind of commercial or > an add, and the second one was the actual show, just a guess. > 3. Now from hanging out on the Winamp4TheBlind list I run, and > getting similar questions, people have come up with all kinds of > interesting ways of getting windows media stuff to play in Winamp, I > was rather surprised at the lengths some of them would go to just to > listen to a stream, it was pretty cool actually. > Through a bit of investigation, I figured out that Winamp, for some > crazy reason, won't play stuff that's in a .asx file. It sits > there trying to connect but just won't play. > > So, to get it to play, what i had to do was download the asx file to > my hard drive, open it up in note pad, copy and paste the second > address to the clipboard, and then copy it into the open location > dialogue of Winamp with control plus l. also, there was a quote > mark I had to remove at the end of the address too so you have to be > careful about that as well. I pressed enter and after waiting a few > seconds, the stream did play, but man that is just way too much for > anyone to have to go through *just* so it'll play in Winamp. so if > you *really* are dedicated to doing it this way, that's how I did it, > but it just seems to me that it'd be much easier for windows media > player to handle it. I know that's not what you wanted to hear, but > that's how it is for me. and from how it looks that's probably how it > is for you as well. > > Sorry i can't see any easier way to do it. > if anyone knows of an easier way I'd like to know, because that's a > commonly asked question on the list. I don't listen to a lot of > windows media streams myself but i know lots of people who do and > it's unfortunate that there isn't an easier way. at least, not that I > know of. > > > Thanks. > > > > > > > > > > > > > > At 04:05 PM 10/25/2007, you wrote: >>Okay we need more soldiers here. Albert also found when he went to the >>site >>www.paulharvey.com >>he can't get the new winamp to play the broadcast. To get it to play you >>find lets say Tuesday and click the win link. the qt is for quick time. >>The >>thing is these broadcasts use to play fine on the older versions of >>winamp. >>I like using winamp because I can fast forward past the commercials. these >>broadcasts also play fine in windows media player. the fast forward is >>unavailable in media player. >> >> >> >>Audio List Help, Guidelines, Archives and more... >>http://www.pc-audio.org >> >>To unsubscribe from this list, send a blank email to: >>[EMAIL PROTECTED] >> >> >>__________ NOD32 2617 (20071025) Information __________ >> >>This message was checked by NOD32 antivirus system. >>http://www.eset.com > > > > Audio List Help, Guidelines, Archives and more... > http://www.pc-audio.org > > To unsubscribe from this list, send a blank email to: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Audio List Help, Guidelines, Archives and more... http://www.pc-audio.org To unsubscribe from this list, send a blank email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
