{"id":422,"date":"1997-09-09T01:36:29","date_gmt":"1997-09-09T09:36:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.birdhouse.org\/betips\/?p=422"},"modified":"1997-09-09T01:36:29","modified_gmt":"1997-09-09T09:36:29","slug":"auto-streaming-mp3-audio","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.betips.net\/?p=422","title":{"rendered":"Auto-streaming MP3 audio"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Now that both SoundPlay and CL-Amp support .M3U and .PLS files, and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mp3.com\/\">MP3.com<\/a> has moved their InstantPlay function from RealAudio to streaming MP3, you can listen to their Hi-Fi and Low-Fi transmissions in BeOS, as well as .M3U or .PLS files containing URLs from other sites.<br \/>\nGo to any artist page on MP3.com and click the Hi-Fi or Low-Fi link. This will download a tiny text file of the type audio\/x-mpegurl, which will be automatically launched in SoundPlay or CL-Amp. The text file simply includes the URL to an MP3 file, so that download control of the actual audio is passed from the browser to the playback software.<br \/>\nSimilarly, streaming audio from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.shoutcast.com\/\">SHOUTCast.com<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.icecast.org\/\">icecast.org<\/a> can now be played easily on BeOS.<br \/>\nTo change associations for any of these streaming techniques, launch the FileTypes preferences panel and choose a player from the picklist in the sections labeled audio\/x-mpegurl, audio\/mpegurl, and audio\/x-scpls.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Now that both SoundPlay and CL-Amp support .M3U and .PLS files, and MP3.com has moved their InstantPlay function from RealAudio to streaming MP3, you can listen to their Hi-Fi and Low-Fi transmissions in BeOS, as well as .M3U or .PLS files containing URLs from other sites. Go to any artist page on MP3.com and click [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[3],"class_list":["post-422","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-audio-video"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.betips.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/422","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.betips.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.betips.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.betips.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.betips.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=422"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.betips.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/422\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.betips.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=422"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.betips.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=422"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.betips.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=422"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}