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Amiga computer related discussion => Amiga Software Issues and Discussion => Topic started by: zyphoid on September 15, 2007, 10:22:45 PM
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how do you get amplifier to play shoutcast pls files? amp works, but when i try to add the stream file in samplifier i get a requestor "please insert vol. FILE=http in any drive"
then when i cancell that i get "Please insert vol. TITLE=1(# - 42/200) in any drive.
cancelling that leads to nothing happening! :crazy:
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I don't think you have to do something special to
play shoutcast playlists in Amplifier.
Normally you just load the file and Amplifier connects
to the shoutcast station.
Do you have a link to this shoutcast station ?
Maybe I can try it on my system and see if it also refuses to play on my system.
With kind regards,
Lloyd
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yea that's what i thought too, don't know if this helps i just opened the file it says http://204.13.167.70:9006
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I opened Amplifier, clicked the open button, and saw a requester with files on my hard drive. I pasted the URL you listed right into the file field - it started playing right off.
This is the first time I've got streaming audio to work in many years (forgot how to do it!). Thanks.
Are there lots of stations designed for Amplifier for Amiga?
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Tenacious wrote:
I opened Amplifier, clicked the open button, and saw a requester with files on my hard drive. I pasted the URL you listed right into the file field - it started playing right off.
This is the first time I've got streaming audio to work in many years (forgot how to do it!). Thanks.
Are there lots of stations designed for Amplifier for Amiga?
I cant get mine to perform that simple task. it may just be a ver. thing I am using the original 2.21 ve which came with os3.9 the downloaded ver 2.33 works on my setup, (what version/setup are you using and how did you copy and paste in the file requestor, i assume it would still need a dir for the file? not sure it read links too!
btw you want to go to www.shoutcast.com there you will find many mp3 streams which you can download to ram or whereever and open with amplifier!
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Umm.. I have Amplifier 2.34 in use. The mentioned stream works just fine. Just select "Open URL..." from menu or keep LMB pressed on playlist's "+" button and select "URL". Then paste the url on the requester and start playing. It should also work with Amplifier from OS3.9.
BTW. check the rexx/ directory in Amplifier's dir. There's scripts for .pls and .m3u, which you can integrate to your favourite browser. After adding those to browser's mimetypes, you can play shoutcast etc streams just by clicking them on browser. No need to save anything anywhere.
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I'll try this 2.34, how do you get that ver?
I think that's it...Im not getting that option. Not in the open or the lower file url- which will not give me the screen option. is this an installation issue then?
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Sorry, I've been away. I'm running 2.34 as well.
I think others who are more adept at setting up mime types in Ibrowse than I am, simply click a "Tune-in" button. Amplifier starts automatically and plays the shout-cast stream.
I wish I could get there.
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I got it working!
Thanks pVC!
I was missing 2 of the rexx scripts in my installation.
AMPlifierMP3Stream-pls.rexx & AMPlifierMP3Stream-m3u.rexx
I moved these to my REXX: directory.
My iBrowse Preferences/General/MIME Types:
Mime Type: audio/x-scpls
Extension: pls
Action: External Viewer
Viewer: rx
Arguments: Rexx:AmplifierMP3Stream-pls.rexx %f
This is probably simple for others here, but I've been wanting this ability for years. Now it works!
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You know, being able to do things like this with a 16 year old machine is amazing and gratifying.
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@zyphoid
Amplifier 2.34 comes with OS 3.9.
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the ver which came with mine was 2.32 or something, i downloaded 2.33 from the author's site then found it in boingbag2. I had never installed the boingbags 1,2 so i did, now for those who know how tempermental my amiga is, it started being sugglish, and hangs a bit on line...to make matters worse, now it wont even play the streams! it connects then buffers, and then rerbuffers, and sits.
I have to reset 3xs for it to correct itself speed wise.
And ibrowse links now needs a couple of quick clicks to go
I hate installing thing on my1200, its always a guess as to what will happen!
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Bamiga2002 wrote:
@zyphoid
Amplifier 2.34 comes with OS 3.9.
Umm, that should read:
Amplifier 2.34 is found inside the BB2 (Boing Bag 2) archive.
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@ zyphoid
Are you saying that when you run installation scripts on your Amiga, you can't get back to where you were before?
If this is your experience, I find that the Amiga has many techniques to prevent over-writing vital files, and ways to track and log every step on the installation. The user is all-important.
There are probably as many methods on other platforms, I simply don't know what they are.
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I agree you're right there are programs and methods to prevent this from happening but I usually install and go. Sometimes this leads to the operating issues that I explained. So I'm stuck till the next installation of a program, which may correct the os, or I re-install my OS....which is so much FUN!!!! :madashell:
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Tenacious wrote:
I got it working!
Thanks pVC!
I was missing 2 of the rexx scripts in my installation.
AMPlifierMP3Stream-pls.rexx & AMPlifierMP3Stream-m3u.rexx
I moved these to my REXX: directory.
My iBrowse Preferences/General/MIME Types:
Mime Type: audio/x-scpls
Extension: pls
Action: External Viewer
Viewer: rx
Arguments: Rexx:AmplifierMP3Stream-pls.rexx %f
This is probably simple for others here, but I've been wanting this ability for years. Now it works!
@ tenacious & pVC where is rexx? are you referring to rexxc in sys? I tried the above steps but got this error
5/1: program not found
is this step by step? I too would like to get this going!
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REXX: is different from rexxc. REXX: is where most programs expect to find Arexx script files. It is a virtual device (like C:, S:, LIBS:, etc), it can be assigned in your user-startup to any directory. Some people like to assign it to S:. I usually create a Rexx directory on my SYS: disk or partition and assign the device REXX: to it. This way all Arexx scripts are kept seperate from regular script files. I don't know how usefull the seperation is, but it suits my sense of organization, grin.
You should notice that the Amplifier installation process did not copy the required Arexx scripts to REXX:. I had to do that.
My previous post details the fields to be changed in iBrowse's Mime Type preferences. I'm trying to get a better understanding of Mime Types and how they work.
EDIT: Forgot to mention that you must also have Rexxmast running for the script to work. Simply invoke the command Rexxmast in your user-startup if it is not already there.
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http://www.net-eclipse.de/data/amplifier235.lha
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Thanks Sundown.
Looking through version 2.35, I noticed that there is only 1 Arexx script included (I suspect the same is true of 2.34). I got my installation working with additional scripts from 2.33.
I can't find how 2.35 is improved over 2.34.
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ahh i didn't have rexxmast running either at the time, where do these go
[AMPlifierMP3Stream-pls.rexx & AMPlifierMP3Stream-m3u.rexx]
and how to copy to rexx and exactly how to bring it up, or copy them
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Do you use a dir utility like Directory Opus 4.17, or Ordering? Both are available on aminet for free. Dir utilities are very powerful and indispensible. This is another area where the Amiga shines above all other platforms (*nix has Worker, though).
A well configured Dopus installation can make this very easy. It has a command called GETDEVICES. It will list all real and virtual devices installed, if not listed, it's not there. With Dopus, you can copy & move files, deal with archives, edit the user-startup file, and much more.
These same things can be done in Workbench and AmigaDos. Do you have any Amiga mamuals? If not, these are some good titles to have on hand: "The AmigaDOS Manual", "The Amiga Companion" by Rob Peck, "Best Amiga Tips and Secrets" by Denny Adkins, the books that come with the OS or computer. To get the whole Amiga experience, everyone should have some of these.
I wish there was an archive or website that details the fundamentals of Amiga operations, but, I'm not aware of any. Anyone else?
Another beauty of Amiga is all of the published info about every detail of the OS and hardware.