rick's cafe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:

> but I thought my use (albeuit through the squeezbox) was personal in
> nature....

I'm pretty sure you are :).  But it's not me who's interested in, and
it's not you who's asking at shoutcast.com for data.  Instead, you get
a compilation from SN without being able to benefit from the goodies
on the web page (i.e. from Nullsoft's WinAmp advertisings), and
shoutcast gets its queries from SN which they may consider
non-private.

I don't blame Nullsoft for that; it's a totally reasonable business
model and (apart from the fact that I rarely use Windows) WinAmp is a
good product.  It just means one more step for us SN users: we have to
go to shoutcast.com (that's what they're interested in), look there for
the station's home page, and there for their stream address, then
paste the address into SN's web interface.

Even right-clicking (in firefox) shoutcast's play button, selecting
"copy link location" and pasting the result into SN's favorite list
will do, but I've got the impression that the playlist you get this
way has a somewhat limited life time.  Better download its contents
and use the address(es) found inside.

Sure, you can't zap through shoutcast stations this way.  For me,
that's a minor nuisance.  I think we'll have to live with whatever
shoutcast decides to answer when it gets queries from the SN server.
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