Why Can't WinAMP Play Shoutcast Streams on Win XP?

mweiss · 5th September 2004, 07:19

Thank you for the comprehensive list of links. In the first link was the answer.

The following entry was MISSING from the registry:

audio/pls : Extension = .pls

I manually created a new key, edited it to contain the above, and now it works for the laptop machine with XP, but unfortunately, applying that reg entry to the desktop XP machine did not affect the problem there. Further exploration revealed that the SCPLS key was missing from the desktop machine. Weird. Anyway, I added it to this machine and now it streams. Why these keys were missing is curious.
Oddly enough, there is a VAIO XP machine at the radio station where I work that has RealPlayer on it and WinAMP, and WinAMP doesn't have any trouble playing a stream. And that machine is loaded with junk, antivirus, ZoneAlarm, etc, and it still works. My clean XP desktop machine however, doesn't.

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5th September 2004, 07:19	#7
mweiss Member Join Date: Oct 2002 Location: Connecticut Posts: 55	Thank you for the comprehensive list of links. In the first link was the answer. The following entry was MISSING from the registry: audio/pls : Extension = .pls I manually created a new key, edited it to contain the above, and now it works for the laptop machine with XP, but unfortunately, applying that reg entry to the desktop XP machine did not affect the problem there. Further exploration revealed that the SCPLS key was missing from the desktop machine. Weird. Anyway, I added it to this machine and now it streams. Why these keys were missing is curious. Oddly enough, there is a VAIO XP machine at the radio station where I work that has RealPlayer on it and WinAMP, and WinAMP doesn't have any trouble playing a stream. And that machine is loaded with junk, antivirus, ZoneAlarm, etc, and it still works. My clean XP desktop machine however, doesn't.