ANR & Shoutcast

[Voyager74]

I became quite fond of AmiNetRadio, and therefore always used the most
obvious choice for streaming music, shoutcast.
Recently the classic.shoutcast.com has been abandoned, and I can't receive
any searchresults in ANR.
Does anybody have a solution, hint, or some alternative streaming-servers??

[MozzerFan]

Enter 'http://207.200.98.25' in the shoutsearch proxy settings.

[Voyager74]

Super-Mega-Thanks!!!
It worked a treat, and yielded results instantly...
Pretty stoopid of me not to think of using an ip-adress, rather than the
requested URL's! (I was thinking 'bout firewalls and stuff 'coz I emulate).

.oO(allthough... 72 views and 1 reply)

You've saved my life (that of music that is )

Best Regards ; R.J!

[Cammy]

.oO(allthough... 72 views and 1 reply)

Unfortunately hardly anyone uses or knows about AmiNetRadio. I used to use it all the time until the two major online radio station providers which most of my favourites belonged to stopped broadcasting their low-bandwidth streams and my 030 can't handle the higher quality streams.

I wonder if there's a proxy that can reduce the bitrate of incoming streams for users of slower computers.

[MozzerFan]

@Voyager74
Glad it works !
 
@Cammy
There's info in the aminetradio guide to make the program work with hardware mp3-decoders.
I've successfully used aminetradio on an a1200-030/50 with both a mas-player pro and the mp3@64. Both are significantly cheaper than an amiga soundcard with DSP.

[Cammy]

Both have also been unavailable for a long time and cheap still means they cost something, and I have no money to spend at all. I already knew there was support for these cards but they're just not an option for me.

Thanks anyway, hopefully someone else with this hardware might have just found out they can use it for streaming internet radio now if they read this.

[Kronos]

@Voyager

That IP-address is hardly a secret, but since you posted in the middle of the night and your question had allready been answered by the time I came across this thread....

@Cammy

I think there are still plenty people useing ANR these (this surely hasn't been the 1st the server-address-issue has been raised), wether they visit a.org is another question.

What strikes me odd is that a shout-search brings back stations that for great part have german (or maybe austrian) background..... and no I didn't search for any specific german genre

[Cammy]

I guess I should have reworded what I said. Not ENOUGH people use this awesome program, and it would be good if more people knew about it. It seems to have dipped below the radar over the years and a lot of returning users don't know that they can use their Amiga for listening to internet radio, podcasts and other streaming audio. It would be good if programs like this, AmiTwitter (Twitter short messages), Dynamite (Multiplayer-Online Bomberman clone) and AmiGift (P2P file sharing) got more attention, they make our classic Amigas feel a bit more modern and useful.

[Voyager74]

@Voyager

That IP-address is hardly a secret, but since you posted in the middle of the night and your question had allready been answered by the time I came across this thread....

Like I said, even I *could* have thought of that one (just pulled a 'who-is' on
that ip). I just didn't think of using a direct ip-adress, I thought something
else was frakkin'-it up. Either it was AOL's 'new' site, or some windooze-software
stopping it b4 it came thru with the search-results...
(Yes, I emulate alot these days... Wonder how my real 030 would cope :roflmao:)

However, now this post is here for future reference for anyone else who
stumbles upon this amazing piece of original Amiga software