Is there a simple streaming audio (.pls) player?

[Walter Dnes]

  Much weeping and gnashing of teeth on the Gentoo forums over the
dropping of xmms from portage.  It's not Gentoo's fault.  xmms has been
abandoned by the upstream maintainer.

  I use mpg321 to play music files on my harddrive.  I don't need no
steenkin gui for that.  mc is a great file-browser that can run in a
true text console or an xterm.  I have it set up to launch mpg321 when I
press <ENTER> on an mp3 file.

  I have one other need for an audioplayer.  I'm a paying subscriber of
Live365, and I need a simple audio player to launch and play audio
streams direct off a .pls file.  Windows-Media-Player-wannabees like
amarok need not apply.  I've tried "audacious".  audacious falls flat on
its face in this task.  The current version (1.1.2-r1) does *NOT*
support mp3, or streaming mp3.  It requires a plugin package.  The
plugin package is keyword masked ~x86.  After unmasking the plugin
package, I find that it requires a higher version of audacious, which is
also keyword masked ~x86.  Etc, etc., etc.  Version 1.1.0 still supports
mp3 directly, so I've package-masked ">media-sound/audacious-1.1.0".
But wait... there's more... on at least one Live365 station, audacious
1.1.0 plays at half speed, and the singer's voice is way down low.  xmms
handles that station fine.

  I tried RealPlayer.  Unlike xmms and audacious, it can't keep up with
a 96 kbps audio stream, stuttering and buffering all the time.  This is
on an AMDK8 3000+ with 2 gigs of RAM, running Blackbox, not some
underpowered machine running a resource-hogging "desktop environment".

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