new CBC Radio 2 web streamsy

[JoeHill]

Chris F.A. Johnson wrote: 

> On Tue, 2 Sep 2008, Julian C. Dunn wrote:
> 
> > Hi TLUGgers:
> >
> > Some (many?) of you are CBC Radio fans -- which I've noticed because you
> > have come up with novel solutions for capturing Windows Media streams
> > and turning them into something useful [1]
> >
> > Today, CBC Radio launched four new web streams as part of the Radio 2
> > revitalization project [2]. It's not made clear on the Radio 2 site, but
> > these streams are in streaming VBR MP3 format, for cross-platform
> > compatibility.  
> 
>     I'm getting a lot of
> 
> > CBC is providing a Flash-based player to play the streams, but you can
> > also use the direct M3U playlist links in your favourite Linux-based MP3
> > player:
> >
> > Canadian Classical
> > http://icy1.abacast.com/cbc-canadianclassicalhi-192.m3u
> >
> > Classical
> > http://icy1.abacast.com/cbc-classicalhi-192.m3u
> >
> > Jazz
> > http://icy1.abacast.com/cbc-jazzhi-192.m3u
> >
> > Singer/Songwriter
> > http://icy1.abacast.com/cbc-songwriterhi-192.m3u  
> 
>      xmms doesn't like remote m3u files, so I used their contents; they
>      work:

mpg123 -@ http://icy1.abacast.com/cbc-canadianclassicalhi-192.m3u

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