Shoutcast / Internet Radio is down - Page 2

DJ Egg · 6th March 2004, 11:41

Yup. It's fux0red again

Re-stickied.

*sigh*

spardax · 6th March 2004, 14:28

It's still down... (4.30pm CET)

sebt · 6th March 2004, 14:50

I'm having the same problems as the thread starter. Most links under ML "Internet Radio" do not work - in particular those that go to shoutcast.com/.../tunein...

Desperate for your music fix? Go to www.shoutcast.com and use the directory and "tune in" buttons there. Seems to work for me, with all the stations that DONT work from "Internet Radio".

Enjoy.

Seb

quigly · 6th March 2004, 16:59

I believe the problem with winamp radio has something to do with the .pls not loading automatically into Winamp 5.02. For me it had something to do with me uninstalling Gozilla. Before that I had no problems with any of the radio stations. Now to get it to play at all I had to reinstall Gozilla, goto www.shoutcast.com, find the station, download it through Gozilla, then double click on the .pls file in Gozilla to get it to play in Winamp. This works on all stations but it is a very slow and annoying process considering it was all done automatically in Winamp before.

Let me know if anyone nows how to automate this process again.

nuthin2luuz · 6th March 2004, 17:29

Dammit yep., frikkin radio is still down...I was smart enough to come and check these forums out having resorted to doing it for my new Motorola V300....anyway, if I didn't clue in I would probably uninstalled and reinstalled winamp another 10 times before giving up...heheheeh

Hope it kicks in soon.

threemoons · 6th March 2004, 19:22

*sigh* Shoutcast was OK for a few days, seems to be persnickity--along with most other Net radio stations--today.

No problems playing if I go to the sites, though.

Any idea if this is a Winamp thing or a Shoutcast thing?

punk_rocker128 · 6th March 2004, 20:05

Quote:

Any idea if this is a Winamp thing or a Shoutcast thing?

I think it's a Winamp problem, because when you go to Shoutcast's website and tune in on the stations, they load properly in Winamp. Only when you load the stations inside of Winamp and try to tune in one the stations, nothing will happen. (For me at least). I've tried these things, and they fixed it for awhile, but it wont work now.

Empty the Internet Explorer Cache (Open Internet Explorer, go to Tools-Internet Options, then click 'delete files' Click 'Ok' then close out
Drag the radio station onto the playlist editor and try playing it.
Click on the radio station and press the 'play' button

Stesslo · 6th March 2004, 20:25

This is the URL provided inside winamp and it does not work.

http://www.shoutcast.com/sbin/tunein...e=playlist.pls

This is URL for the same stream found at shoutcast that works.

http://www.shoutcast.com/sbin/shoutc...e=filename.pls

Notice the difference. I've noticed that this is consistent throughout winamp and shoutcast. Apparently there is some data base problem that is sending the wrong URL to Winamp.

punk_rocker128 · 6th March 2004, 23:49

Quote:

This is the URL provided inside winamp and it does not work.

http://www.shoutcast.com/sbin/tunei...me=playlist.pls

This is URL for the same stream found at shoutcast that works.

http://www.shoutcast.com/sbin/shout...le=filename.pls

Wow, thats a huge difference. Maybe theres a way that we can change the URL it calls upon. It'd be nice if there was a INI file containing all the stations that we could jsut modify to make it work

rtplistener · 7th March 2004, 02:37

I'm having problems again too. It's not that big of a deal anymore because I created bookmarks to all the radio stations I listen to. Clicking on each bookmark calls Winamp if it isn't already up and starts streaming the audio.

swhite · 7th March 2004, 04:12

Clicking on stations in Winamp doesn't work, but clicking on "Tune In" on Shoutcast's site does. I don't know why it works like that at the moment. It really must be fixed immediately!!

yoda21000 · 7th March 2004, 07:12

Sometimes I can connect by clicking the station link in winamp 5. Sometimes it works other times it doesn't. When it doesnt work correctly I can go into the videos and watch them but not radio stations. Only way I can connect to a station is by going to shoutcast site itself and clicking the link to play.

I think this is perhaps a bug that we all hope to be address in the next version. It works good when it works but something seems to be quirky when it attempt to get the HTTP response but doesn't play the station.

whipthatllama · 7th March 2004, 07:39

Quote:

I think this is perhaps a bug that we all hope to be address in the next version.

We're gonna have to wait till the next version to get this fixed???

Bandito · 7th March 2004, 09:20

Found another workaround:

Make a Bookmark of the favorit stations (rightclick - 'send to: bookamrks').

Go to the bookmarks and edit them (mark and CTRL-E).
Copy the name of the sation and search the internetsite
http://www.shoutcast.com/
Clicking on the link schould play the stream. Copy this link and paste it into the winamp-bookmark-edit-file field.
Now you can just click on the bookmarks to hear your favorite stations, without having to open the southcaste site everytime.

Have fun.
Torsten

gas-attack · 7th March 2004, 12:53

Before I installed WA 5.02 on 03/05, everything was fine. But exactly with the update to 5.02, it didn't work anymore.
And cause so many users have got this problem, think they changed something in 5.02.

DJ Egg · 7th March 2004, 17:04

No. Nothing to do with it. It's a serverside issue.
btw, everything's working ok again, atm...

whipthatllama · 7th March 2004, 17:33

Yeah, I can vouch that it wasn't a 5.02 problem only b/c I use 5.01, but, anyway, like DJ Egg said it's working fine again...for me at least.

EDIT: Actually, not all the radio stations work for me but a majority of them do.

gas-attack · 7th March 2004, 17:52

You were right. It's not because of 5.02. It works again!!!

felipe182 · 7th March 2004, 17:59

Well I've been using winamp 3 for months with absolutely no problems. Yesterday I upgraded to winamp 5.02 and the tune in buttons on shoutcast don't work. I get an error message saying it can't find the pls file in my temp folder. It works if I go the the internet site and play it from there though. Something is not right with version 5.02 and it's very annoying, especially since you can't listen to all shoutcast sites by doing that. When you click on "listen" from a lot of sites, it takes you back to their listing in shoutcast........Where the Tune In Button doesn't work!

DJ Egg · 7th March 2004, 18:17

I suggest you read the whole of this thread first.

Beeman65 · 7th March 2004, 18:43

Quote:

Originally posted by gas-attack
You were right. It's not because of 5.02. It works again!!!

Yup, I confirm. Its back up and running fine.

felipe182 · 7th March 2004, 20:12

I still get a message saying Internet Explorer was unable to open internet site when I hit the tune in button in shoutcast. I guess I'm the only one with this problem. I've uninstalled and installed 3 times already. Maybe something went wrong during the Winamp 3 uninstall but I tend to agree with gas-attack's first post, but now he's up and running. I guess I'll try installing winamp 2 and see what happens.

whipthatllama · 8th March 2004, 02:48

Felipe182,

It should work by simply double-clicking one of the listings in the ML.

felipe182 · 8th March 2004, 03:15

You are correct whipthatllama. I tried it and it now works from inside winamp. I guess I would like to be able to access from Shoutcast because they seem to have many more high bitrate stations, at least, according to the listings.

DJ Egg · 8th March 2004, 14:40

Just incease the amount of stations to bring down...

Prefs > Media Library > Internet Radio/TV

Maximum number of streams to fetch from directory

I've got mine set to 2000
but you can go higher if you wish.
Then, when Winamp brings down the list,
change the Bandwidth type to Broadband...

felipe182 · 8th March 2004, 15:29

I didn't realize you could do that. That makes things a lot better. Thanks for the help guys.

felipe182

MichaelBaertsch · 9th March 2004, 18:14

I think yhe problem is shoutcast. With Winamp I can't get all stations I had before and with "boombox" I get zero stations. So, what's wrong.

Mike

DJ Egg · 10th March 2004, 02:29

Nothing's wrong. It's all working properly again.
So the problem is not with Shoutcast,
but is something at your end to blame.

btw, wtf is boombox?

MichaelBaertsch · 10th March 2004, 10:25

Boombox is a nice program which uses winamp as player and
shoutcasts radiostations. And the integratet recorder ist
the best thing I ever had.
Mike

DJ Egg · 10th March 2004, 15:42

Aah... in other words, technically speaking, it's illegal!
ShoutCAST streams are copyright protected.

Rules

StreamRippers
- Due to legal liability issues, any information or references to information about streamripping applications are strictly prohibited within these forums. Any threads/posts containing such information will be edited/deleted without warning... :/

chukkie0001 · 10th March 2004, 18:19

I have the same problem as: Stesslo
I have 2 pc's with XPsp1 and IE6sp1. On one of the pc's, the .pls links from www.winamp.com work. On the other pc the links does not work. The only difference is an update from IE6 (KB832894). When I remove the update, the .pls links works. After I reinstalled the update, it did not work anymore. I have repeated this on several (w2k) workstations at work and I had the same results. It has something to do with the cross-domain security model of Internet Explorer. See for more info: http://www.microsoft.com/technet/sec.../MS04-004.mspx

(ps I know use Opera to open the .pls files at www.winamp.com)

mihimn · 11th March 2004, 01:53

Boombox Software

Illegial as Dj Egg Wrote

"Aah... in other words, technically speaking, it's illegal!
ShoutCAST streams are copyright protected."

Also invasive Spyware

http://www.kephyr.com/spywarescanner...ys/index.phtml

and more here

http://209.123.109.175/forum/remark,...ty,1~mode=flat

Remember:
You pay for what you get for free.

punk_rocker128 · 11th March 2004, 05:40

Hey dudes, I'm still havin a problem with the radio. They all load fine in Winamp (besides RantRadio Punk) but when I play them, they buffer from 0% to 100%. After about ten seconds, the buffering slows to a crawl and it will just stop at a certain percentage. This is happening on ALL stations no matter what I do. I have tried playing them from Shoutcast's website, but it still happens. (In case your wondering my internet connection, it is ADSL). Anyone else having this problem?

Later.

DJ Egg · 11th March 2004, 06:53

Quote:

Originally posted by mihimn
Boombox Software

Also invasive Spyware
http://www.kephyr.com/spywarescanner...ys/index.phtml

and more here
http://209.123.109.175/forum/remark,...ty,1~mode=flat

Remember:
You pay for what you get for free.

Yup. Good find mihimn

Boombox is well and truly spyware infested!

Time for MichaelBaertsch to run Spybot Search & Destroy methinks...

DJ Egg · 12th March 2004, 05:51

Okay, the ShoutCAST dir and Library > Internet Radio have both been working fine for the past few days, so I think it's time to unsticky this thread again.

afaik, everything is now fixed,
so if you're still having problems, then it's something at your end to blame.

6th March 2004, 11:41	#41
DJ Egg Techorator Winamp & Shoutcast Team Join Date: Jun 2000 Posts: 35,894	Yup. It's fux0red again Re-stickied. sigh Playlist -\|- Twitter

6th March 2004, 14:28	#42
spardax Junior Member Join Date: Mar 2004 Location: Germany Posts: 1	Internet Radio down It's still down... (4.30pm CET)

6th March 2004, 14:50	#43
sebt Junior Member Join Date: Oct 2003 Posts: 43	Workaround I'm having the same problems as the thread starter. Most links under ML "Internet Radio" do not work - in particular those that go to shoutcast.com/.../tunein... Desperate for your music fix? Go to www.shoutcast.com and use the directory and "tune in" buttons there. Seems to work for me, with all the stations that DONT work from "Internet Radio". Enjoy. Seb

6th March 2004, 19:22	#46
threemoons Junior Member Join Date: Jan 2004 Posts: 36	Radio was OK for a bit, then down again sigh Shoutcast was OK for a few days, seems to be persnickity--along with most other Net radio stations--today. No problems playing if I go to the sites, though. Any idea if this is a Winamp thing or a Shoutcast thing?

7th March 2004, 07:12	#52
yoda21000 Junior Member Join Date: Feb 2001 Posts: 8	same here Sometimes I can connect by clicking the station link in winamp 5. Sometimes it works other times it doesn't. When it doesnt work correctly I can go into the videos and watch them but not radio stations. Only way I can connect to a station is by going to shoutcast site itself and clicking the link to play. I think this is perhaps a bug that we all hope to be address in the next version. It works good when it works but something seems to be quirky when it attempt to get the HTTP response but doesn't play the station.

6th March 2004, 16:59	#44
quigly Junior Member Join Date: Mar 2004 Posts: 1	I believe the problem with winamp radio has something to do with the .pls not loading automatically into Winamp 5.02. For me it had something to do with me uninstalling Gozilla. Before that I had no problems with any of the radio stations. Now to get it to play at all I had to reinstall Gozilla, goto www.shoutcast.com, find the station, download it through Gozilla, then double click on the .pls file in Gozilla to get it to play in Winamp. This works on all stations but it is a very slow and annoying process considering it was all done automatically in Winamp before. Let me know if anyone nows how to automate this process again.

6th March 2004, 20:25	#48
Stesslo Junior Member Join Date: Jan 2004 Posts: 4	This is the URL provided inside winamp and it does not work. http://www.shoutcast.com/sbin/tunein...e=playlist.pls This is URL for the same stream found at shoutcast that works. http://www.shoutcast.com/sbin/shoutc...e=filename.pls Notice the difference. I've noticed that this is consistent throughout winamp and shoutcast. Apparently there is some data base problem that is sending the wrong URL to Winamp.

7th March 2004, 02:37	#50
rtplistener Junior Member Join Date: Feb 2004 Location: Raleigh, NC Posts: 3	I'm having problems again too. It's not that big of a deal anymore because I created bookmarks to all the radio stations I listen to. Clicking on each bookmark calls Winamp if it isn't already up and starts streaming the audio.

7th March 2004, 04:12	#51
swhite Member Join Date: Jan 2001 Posts: 84	Clicking on stations in Winamp doesn't work, but clicking on "Tune In" on Shoutcast's site does. I don't know why it works like that at the moment. It really must be fixed immediately!!

7th March 2004, 09:20	#54
Bandito Junior Member Join Date: Mar 2004 Posts: 5	Found another workaround: Make a Bookmark of the favorit stations (rightclick - 'send to: bookamrks'). Go to the bookmarks and edit them (mark and CTRL-E). Copy the name of the sation and search the internetsite http://www.shoutcast.com/ Clicking on the link schould play the stream. Copy this link and paste it into the winamp-bookmark-edit-file field. Now you can just click on the bookmarks to hear your favorite stations, without having to open the southcaste site everytime. Have fun. Torsten

7th March 2004, 12:53	#55
gas-attack Senior Member Join Date: Feb 2004 Location: The world's a** Posts: 1 divided by 0 Posts: 219	Is it because of 5.02? Before I installed WA 5.02 on 03/05, everything was fine. But exactly with the update to 5.02, it didn't work anymore. And cause so many users have got this problem, think they changed something in 5.02.

7th March 2004, 17:04	#56
DJ Egg Techorator Winamp & Shoutcast Team Join Date: Jun 2000 Posts: 35,894	No. Nothing to do with it. It's a serverside issue. btw, everything's working ok again, atm... Playlist -\|- Twitter

7th March 2004, 17:33	#57
whipthatllama Junior Member Join Date: Feb 2004 Posts: 25	Yeah, I can vouch that it wasn't a 5.02 problem only b/c I use 5.01, but, anyway, like DJ Egg said it's working fine again...for me at least. EDIT: Actually, not all the radio stations work for me but a majority of them do.

7th March 2004, 17:52	#58
gas-attack Senior Member Join Date: Feb 2004 Location: The world's a** Posts: 1 divided by 0 Posts: 219	Confirmation You were right. It's not because of 5.02. It works again!!!

7th March 2004, 17:59	#59
felipe182 Junior Member Join Date: Mar 2004 Location: CA Posts: 4	Well I've been using winamp 3 for months with absolutely no problems. Yesterday I upgraded to winamp 5.02 and the tune in buttons on shoutcast don't work. I get an error message saying it can't find the pls file in my temp folder. It works if I go the the internet site and play it from there though. Something is not right with version 5.02 and it's very annoying, especially since you can't listen to all shoutcast sites by doing that. When you click on "listen" from a lot of sites, it takes you back to their listing in shoutcast........Where the Tune In Button doesn't work!

7th March 2004, 18:17	#60
DJ Egg Techorator Winamp & Shoutcast Team Join Date: Jun 2000 Posts: 35,894	I suggest you read the whole of this thread first. Playlist -\|- Twitter

7th March 2004, 20:12	#62
felipe182 Junior Member Join Date: Mar 2004 Location: CA Posts: 4	I still get a message saying Internet Explorer was unable to open internet site when I hit the tune in button in shoutcast. I guess I'm the only one with this problem. I've uninstalled and installed 3 times already. Maybe something went wrong during the Winamp 3 uninstall but I tend to agree with gas-attack's first post, but now he's up and running. I guess I'll try installing winamp 2 and see what happens.

8th March 2004, 02:48	#63
whipthatllama Junior Member Join Date: Feb 2004 Posts: 25	Felipe182, It should work by simply double-clicking one of the listings in the ML.

8th March 2004, 03:15	#64
felipe182 Junior Member Join Date: Mar 2004 Location: CA Posts: 4	You are correct whipthatllama. I tried it and it now works from inside winamp. I guess I would like to be able to access from Shoutcast because they seem to have many more high bitrate stations, at least, according to the listings.

8th March 2004, 14:40	#65
DJ Egg Techorator Winamp & Shoutcast Team Join Date: Jun 2000 Posts: 35,894	Just incease the amount of stations to bring down... Prefs > Media Library > Internet Radio/TV Maximum number of streams to fetch from directory I've got mine set to 2000 but you can go higher if you wish. Then, when Winamp brings down the list, change the Bandwidth type to Broadband... Playlist -\|- Twitter

8th March 2004, 15:29	#66
felipe182 Junior Member Join Date: Mar 2004 Location: CA Posts: 4	Now I'm Happy I didn't realize you could do that. That makes things a lot better. Thanks for the help guys. felipe182

9th March 2004, 18:14	#67
MichaelBaertsch Junior Member Join Date: Mar 2004 Location: Antigua W.I. Posts: 3	I think yhe problem is shoutcast. With Winamp I can't get all stations I had before and with "boombox" I get zero stations. So, what's wrong. Mike

10th March 2004, 02:29	#68
DJ Egg Techorator Winamp & Shoutcast Team Join Date: Jun 2000 Posts: 35,894	Nothing's wrong. It's all working properly again. So the problem is not with Shoutcast, but is something at your end to blame. btw, wtf is boombox? Playlist -\|- Twitter

10th March 2004, 10:25	#69
MichaelBaertsch Junior Member Join Date: Mar 2004 Location: Antigua W.I. Posts: 3	Boombox is a nice program which uses winamp as player and shoutcasts radiostations. And the integratet recorder ist the best thing I ever had. Mike

10th March 2004, 15:42	#70
DJ Egg Techorator Winamp & Shoutcast Team Join Date: Jun 2000 Posts: 35,894	Aah... in other words, technically speaking, it's illegal! ShoutCAST streams are copyright protected. Rules StreamRippers - Due to legal liability issues, any information or references to information about streamripping applications are strictly prohibited within these forums. Any threads/posts containing such information will be edited/deleted without warning... :/ Playlist -\|- Twitter

10th March 2004, 18:19	#71
chukkie0001 Junior Member Join Date: Mar 2004 Posts: 1	Problem with .pls at www.winamp.com I have the same problem as: Stesslo I have 2 pc's with XPsp1 and IE6sp1. On one of the pc's, the .pls links from www.winamp.com work. On the other pc the links does not work. The only difference is an update from IE6 (KB832894). When I remove the update, the .pls links works. After I reinstalled the update, it did not work anymore. I have repeated this on several (w2k) workstations at work and I had the same results. It has something to do with the cross-domain security model of Internet Explorer. See for more info: http://www.microsoft.com/technet/sec.../MS04-004.mspx (ps I know use Opera to open the .pls files at www.winamp.com)

11th March 2004, 01:53	#72
mihimn Junior Member Join Date: Feb 2004 Posts: 2	More on Boombox Software Boombox Software Illegial as Dj Egg Wrote "Aah... in other words, technically speaking, it's illegal! ShoutCAST streams are copyright protected." Also invasive Spyware http://www.kephyr.com/spywarescanner...ys/index.phtml and more here http://209.123.109.175/forum/remark,...ty,1~mode=flat Remember: You pay for what you get for free.

11th March 2004, 05:40	#73
punk_rocker128 Junior Member Join Date: Mar 2004 Location: Alaska, United States Posts: 4	Hey dudes, I'm still havin a problem with the radio. They all load fine in Winamp (besides RantRadio Punk) but when I play them, they buffer from 0% to 100%. After about ten seconds, the buffering slows to a crawl and it will just stop at a certain percentage. This is happening on ALL stations no matter what I do. I have tried playing them from Shoutcast's website, but it still happens. (In case your wondering my internet connection, it is ADSL). Anyone else having this problem? Later.

12th March 2004, 05:51	#75
DJ Egg Techorator Winamp & Shoutcast Team Join Date: Jun 2000 Posts: 35,894	Okay, the ShoutCAST dir and Library > Internet Radio have both been working fine for the past few days, so I think it's time to unsticky this thread again. afaik, everything is now fixed, so if you're still having problems, then it's something at your end to blame. Playlist -\|- Twitter

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