[GTALUG] Playing *.pls files in firefox?

[James Knott]

On 11/17/2014 02:33 AM, Walter Dnes wrote:
>   Showing my age here, I like oldies music.  An interesting site is
> http://www.fun45s.com/ but firefox won't play it for me.  Fortunately
> they give the direct stream URL on their homepage.  If I try
> http://s7.voscast.com:8376 or http://www.fun45s.com/listen.pls in
> firefox, firefox asks for a .pls handler, and I point it to mpg123.  It
> doesn't work.  No music.  But if I run mpg123 direcly from the
> commandline like so...
>
> mpg123 http://s7.voscast.com:8376
>
> ...it works.  Can I set up firefox to handle pls files direcly, or is
> there a player that firefox can invoke?
>

It works for me in Firefox.  It's currently playing The Four Seasons
"Let's Hang On".  I didn't do anything to get it to work.