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It seems previous problems I had with internet radio streams are working better now, which is making me much more happy in using Banshee. Thanks to the developers for their work on this. However, while some of my radio streams are rock solid, such as those from SomaFM or Digitally Imported, others are still balking. So I wondered if maybe there was something wrong or incompatible about the format of the stream itself. For example, this radio stream from the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (CBC), never works: http://playerservices.streamtheworld.com/pls/CBC_R2CLAS_H.pls And it seems that none of their streams do (though I haven't tried every single one): http://misener.org/archives/1266 After I add them to my list of stations, when I click to play them, they wait a few seconds and then say "idle". Sometimes, the green "play" triangle flicks back and forth between "pause" and "play" for a while, as if it is almost connecting, but then it eventually gives up and goes idle. Is there a reason why these streams might not be working for me? -- Martin _______________________________________________ banshee-list mailing list [hidden email] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/banshee-list (unsubscribe here) |
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On Fri, Mar 23, 2012 at 3:28 AM, Martin G <[hidden email]> wrote:
> Banshee list, > > It seems previous problems I had with internet radio streams are > working better now, which is making me much more happy in using > Banshee. Thanks to the developers for their work on this. I don't think we changed anything related to radio streams between your two message. I guess the servers for your streams were just in better shape. But, thanks to the work of Olivier, I've just committed a patch that makes Banshee retry if a query for a playlist times out: https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=662909 This change is only available on git master, not in the 2.4 release. > However, while some of my radio streams are rock solid, such as those > from SomaFM or Digitally Imported, others are still balking. So I > wondered if maybe there was something wrong or incompatible about the > format of the stream itself. > > For example, this radio stream from the Canadian Broadcasting > Corporation (CBC), never works: > > http://playerservices.streamtheworld.com/pls/CBC_R2CLAS_H.pls > > And it seems that none of their streams do (though I haven't tried > every single one): > > http://misener.org/archives/1266 > > After I add them to my list of stations, when I click to play them, > they wait a few seconds and then say "idle". Sometimes, the green > "play" triangle flicks back and forth between "pause" and "play" for a > while, as if it is almost connecting, but then it eventually gives up > and goes idle. > > Is there a reason why these streams might not be working for me? If I fetch the playlist manually (with wget for example), the .pls file is downloaded fine. But all the streams listed in it return the following HTTP error if I try to download them: ERROR 403: Forbidden There's not much Banshee can do here... Other streams from the CBC listed at http://www.cbc.ca/video/#/Radio work fine, so maybe they've implemented some access restrictions on the ones listed in that web page. The web site does mention that some stations are restricted to Canada: http://music.cbc.ca/#/faq/faq.aspx -- Bertrand Lorentz _______________________________________________ banshee-list mailing list [hidden email] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/banshee-list (unsubscribe here) |
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