woodsmoke wrote: > > > Please use the cli client and test Anthony's suggestions. Run > > > the following in a terminal: > > > > > > xmms2 addpls /path/to/a/file.pls .. > > Here is what I did. > > I tried addpls and add. > > > st.pls?rn=6687&file=filename.pls > [1] 23268 > woodsm...@woodsmokecomputer3:~$. > ERROR: We can't handle this type of playlist or URL. > > [1]+ Exit 1 xmms2 addpls. > /http://classic.shoutcast.com/sbin/shoutcast-playlist.pls?rn=6687. > woodsm...@woodsmokecomputer3:~$ xmms2 add. > /http://classic.shoutcast.com/sbin/shoutcast-playlist.pls?rn=6687&.file=filename.pls > [1] 23278 > woodsm...@woodsmokecomputer3:~$ Added > /http://classic.shoutcast.com/sbin/shoutcast-playlist.pls?rn=6687.
This is a bit of a mess in your email. Either you're posting in HTML format or your email program is wrapping and reordering lines. Either way, it is difficult to see exactly what was done here, but a few things can be observed. Note that the character '&' (and several others) has very special meaning in the shell and if you ever want to send a parameter to a program which includes any of those special characters you must make sure to properly quote the entire parameter, e.g. using single quotes. xmms2 addpls 'http://blabla?bla=bla&bla=bla' I'm surprised that a distribution developer doesn't know this already. :) Anyway, read up on special characters, escaping and quoting in the shell. man bash Further, I don't think that addpls can handle URLs. In order to do the test I suggested, you should first download the .pls file so that it is stored locally in the file system, e.g. in /tmp, and then run: xmms2 addpls /path/and/name/of/stored/file.pls As you probably know, all web browsers are doing exactly this in the background when a .pls link is clicked. > As you can see I tried addpls and add. Please try again with proper quoting of the parameters. > the add seemed to hook up to xmms2. > but I didn't know what to do next. > I requested the help menu, The output you provided is not really informative since the input parameter was not quoted. > and then tried play. > but it didn't work. Note that to issue xmms2 commands you have to use the xmms2 client. It looks like you typed only play at the prompt, and that happens to be the name of a completely different program which is part of the SoX suite. Type xmms2 play in order to issue the xmms2 play command. > in gxmms2 this was generated in the playlist line:. > ERROR: Connection to xmms2d > was lost. This could be a different issue. Let's first get some good data from tests with the command line client. //Peter -- _______________________________________________ Xmms2-devel mailing list Xmms2-devel@lists.xmms.se http://lists.xmms.se/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/xmms2-devel
