Playing pls file on Amplifier

[Tenacious]

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?

[Tenacious]

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.

[Tenacious]

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]

You know, being able to do things like this with a 16 year old machine is amazing and gratifying.

[Tenacious]

@ 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.

[Tenacious]

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.  

[Tenacious]

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.

[Tenacious]

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.