[GTALUG] Playing *.pls files in firefox?

[James Knott]

On 11/17/2014 05:46 PM, Kevin Cozens wrote:
> On 17/11/2014 2:33 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.
>
> I see from another message you already solved your problem with
> playing the audio stream. My machine played the sound using the
> original URL with no problem. Just as an FYI for those "playing along
> at home" (no pun intended), you can put the URL ending in ".pls" in to
> VLC and it plays the stream.
>
> Another trick with .pls files if you want to play the stream in
> something that doesn't handle the .pls files directly is to use wget
> to retrieve the .pls file then look inside it. It is just a text file
> and contains the URL with port number that you can put into another
> player program. I've used that trick so I could use RealPlayer to play
> audio streams.
>

Another solution is to use the Tunein app on a tablet or smart phone. 
You can select from several "radio stations" that way, including some
that won't play on Linux, at least not without additional help.