Possible ASX. Stream plug-in with foobar/winamp fix for XL??

[RickRenn]

I've been looking for a way to play WM asx streams in Xlobby ...

I found this topic @ the foobar forum which seems to play asx. streams through foobar/winamp with a plug-in...

I've been tryiing to get this to work and I'm throwing in the towel...
*Not enough pc savvy*


Anyone here willing to try it out???

I know where I'm screwing up..ie 2- copy in_wm.dll to foobar2000/ dir posted by OLIVE...I cant seem to find the file

Heres the link to the Foobar forum post:
http://www.hydrogenaudio.org/forums/ind ... 511&hl=asx

and heres an English link to the plugin authors site...*The original site is in Japanese*:
http://www.vesta.dti.ne.jp/~tsato/soft_fb2k_en.html

Rick

[art]

Well, I'm not 100% sure if you want use foobar or you're willing to try winamp... anyway
in_wm.dll is included in winamp - you can find it in "program files/winamp/plugins" and that's all you need to play wma stream in winamp, however you have to remember that *.asx files are not actual streams only files that point to the stream. What you need to do is download asx file and open it in wordpad or notepad and see what the acutal stream is. So, just to show how to do it:
1. I just found this website with some radio stations: http://www.yrguk.com/radio/radio_text.htm
2. download one of the asx files ( I d-loaded this
http://www.woxy.com/stream/wma20.asx just right click and use "save target as")
3. open it in wordpad and you should see this:
<asx version = "3.0">
<title>97X Live Broadcast [20k mono]</title>
<abstract>97X The Future of Rock and Roll</abstract>
<entry>
<ref href = "mms://woxy.liquidviewer.com/woxy24"/>
<ref href = "http://woxy.liquidviewer.com/woxy24"/>
<Title>97X</Title>
<Author>www.woxy.com</Author>
<Copyright>2004 X ALT, LLC</Copyright>
</entry>
</asx>

streams are in bold and you can use either one of them
4. in winamp go File->play url and enter:
mms://woxy.liquidviewer.com/woxy24/.wma
or
http://woxy.liquidviewer.com/woxy24/.wma
give it few moments and it should play. Don't forget "/.wma" at the end

As far as foobar goes it looks like it needs one more file "foo_winamp_input.dll" to do the same, but I'm not sure as I don't use foobar.

Good luck.

[RickRenn]

Thanks Art...This is great *btw I'm using winamp*

Followed your instructions

I can now play some online radio stations I've been missing due to this problem...you da mannnn

I had the lite version of winamp installed...it states in the winamp info that it can play wma files....wrong...I found out in their forum you need the full version of winamp installed to work correctly.

I reinstalled the full version..along with Taras Real Audio plug in for RAM files through winamp...worked without a hitch

Thanks Again ,Rick

[rwh]

Brilliant! Didn't know you could do that with WinAmp. Thx muchly, art!

[RickRenn]

Hey Art or anyone else out there...by chance would you know how to play files like these:

http://meta.insinc.com/cfun/live.asx

http://www.streamaudio.com/listen?station=cfox_fm

I cant seem to get them to work.
*are these program imbedded files?*

also...do you know if its possible with a fix or winamp plug in to play asf files like this:

http://ccri.eonstreams.com/ccri_ca_losa ... kfi_am.asf

I've looked through the winamp forums with no luck....some say its not possible to play with winamp.

Thanks in Advance, Rick

[art]

Hi Rick,
This one:
http://meta.insinc.com/cfun/live.asx
you can just d-load this file and open it in WordPad, you will find this inside the file:
<ASX version="3">
<TITLE>1410 CFUN Live Audio</TITLE>
<AUTHOR></AUTHOR>
<COPYRIGHT></COPYRIGHT>
<Entry>
<DURATION VALUE = "01:00:00" />
<ref HREF="mms://a1175.l858720172.c8587.g.lm.akamaistream.net/D/1175/8587/v0001/reflector:20172" />
<ref HREF="mms://a1962.l858722570.c8587.g.lm.akamaistream.net/D/1962/8587/v0001/reflector:22570 "/>
<ref HREF="mms://wms6.insinc.com/cfun_live/ "/>
</Entry>

</ASX>
I tried 1st stream like so: "mms://a1175.l858720172.c8587.g.lm.akamaistream.net/D/1175/8587/v0001/reflector:20172/.wma" and it worked

This one:
http://ccri.eonstreams.com/ccri_ca_losa ... kfi_am.asf
you can play it like so:
http://ccri.eonstreams.com/ccri_ca_losa ... m.asf/.wma
or if you d-load this asf file you will find this (which is the same thing):
http://66.250.84.31:80/ccri_ca_losangel ... m.asf/.wma

Now this one:
http://www.streamaudio.com/listen?station=cfox_fm
this one is a little bit different 'cause they're using some custom pop-up player. Right now I'm at work and I can't "extract" the stream from it... I will have to get home... I'll let you know.

One more thing, for some reason those first 2 streams take quite a bit of time to load

[RickRenn]

Hey Art

*quote *
This one:
http://ccri.eonstreams.com/ccri_ca_losa ... kfi_am.asf
you can play it like so:
http://ccri.eonstreams.com/ccri_ca_losa ... m.asf/.wma
or if you d-load this asf file you will find this (which is the same thing):
http://66.250.84.31:80/ccri_ca_losangel ... m.asf/.wma


thanks...I screwed up on these ones... I deleted the .asf part of the link and replaced it with /.wma ie
http://66.250.84.31:80/ccri_ca_losangel ... m./.wma.... it doesnt work

instead of just adding the /.wma to the initial link



*quote*
Now this one:
http://www.streamaudio.com/listen?station=cfox_fm
this one is a little bit different 'cause they're using some custom pop-up player. Right now I'm at work and I can't "extract" the stream from it... I will have to get home... I'll let you know.

You're right about the pop up layer...it uses the Chaincast player which asks you to download the program to play the radio link.

Rick

[art]

Hey Art
*quote*
Now this one:
http://www.streamaudio.com/listen?station=cfox_fm
this one is a little bit different 'cause they're using some custom pop-up player. Right now I'm at work and I can't "extract" the stream from it... I will have to get home... I'll let you know.

You're right about the pop up layer...it uses the Chaincast player which asks you to download the program to play the radio link.

Rick

OK I was able to get the stream for this station, it's:
mms://uni1.corus.streamaudio.com/CFOX_FM
of'course add /.wma at the end and it should work.
By the way, the best way to extract those type of streams (in those popup players) is to use Mozilla Firefox - it will let you check properties and source of almost anything and it's a great browser!!!

[RickRenn]

Art ,This is excellent news

Ok, I followed your technique with the pop up player ...with windows XP I right clicked on the popup player ...let the player buffer and then play radio station live....once playing I right clicked on the small player buffer window , then clicked view source.... looked around the source info and found the mms link... adapted it for winamp.. SLICK...I'm all giddy

Now I can finally add all my local radio stations that are online into XLobby...


Well Done Art...Thnx Again,
Rick

[art]

No problem, I'm glad it worked for you