New user looking for help with streaming audio

[tar1827]

I am a huge (new) fan of WinAmp. I was thinking about purchasing a registered copy; however, I have been experiencing a problem that recently has dampened my enthusiasm.

I hope you’ll forgive me if I have missed something in the help forums and support pages. On three separate occasions, I have searched here for an answer, and although I have seen much information on the topic, my problem persists: I am unable to play streaming audio in WinAmp from the sources at bostonpete.com even with version 5.2 and Playlist Loader 0.9.9.8f installed.
Example: http://www.bostonpete.com/wma/show002.asx will not play. WinAmp gives the message [error synching to mpeg]

If I download the ASX file and pull out the mms://bostonpete.us/station02 then I can get WinAmp to play the currently streaming item. When the song ends, WinAmp stops. If I set the toggle for repeating, then it will continue to play each item but it goes through the connection and buffering process each time, so I get 5-10 seconds of no sound and miss the beginning of every song.

Can this be resolved in WinAmp, or has Boston Pete found a way to force me to use Windows Media Player? BP has a couple of channels that I really like, so I’m not likely to stop tuning in to them. I’d just prefer to completely migrate to WinAmp.

Any assistance that you can provide will be greatly appreciated!

[bemymonkey]

I'm not really sure that Winamp can handle streaming asx... I'd find a different radio station if I were you :P...

[Thunder Pussy]

The Playlist Loader plugin adds .asx support. Download & install to your Winamp directory & you're set.

http://www.winamp.com/plugins/details.php?id=144564

[tar1827]

So many people looking for help in forums like this are abused when they post without properly reading a manual or searching for answers in previous posts. That's why I tried to be sure I didn't make that mistake. Perhaps bemymonkey and Early Devil should read my original post more closely...

[Thunder Pussy]

Originally posted by tar1827
So many people looking for help in forums like this are abused when they post without properly reading a manual or searching for answers in previous posts. That's why I tried to be sure I didn't make that mistake. Perhaps bemymonkey and Early Devil should read my original post more closely...

I was contradicting what I saw as misinformation in the first response -- in case someone searched & found it later, that's all. Just trying to help. Anyhow, good luck.

/edit Message received though.

[shakey_snake]

Yeah, that stream crashes winamp for me.
probably incorrect headers.

[bemymonkey]

Originally posted by tar1827
So many people looking for help in forums like this are abused when they post without properly reading a manual or searching for answers in previous posts. That's why I tried to be sure I didn't make that mistake. Perhaps bemymonkey and Early Devil should read my original post more closely...

Ummm... just a side-note, my post was in no way meant to be "abuse"... Just stating that AFAIK asx pretty much always meant/means WMP... and that in my case, that would mean listening to a different radio station since I simply can't stand WMP. Jeeeez, everyone takes offense so easily these days...

[tar1827]

Ummm... just a side-note, my post was in no way meant to be "abuse"... Just stating that AFAIK asx pretty much always meant/means WMP... and that in my case, that would mean listening to a different radio station since I simply can't stand WMP. Jeeeez, everyone takes offense so easily these days...

No offense taken, beymymonkey, I didn't mean that I felt abused. I meant that people who don't pay attention to posts usually get abused and I anticipated a response similar to yours when I wrote my first post. I sincerely do appreciate all help...and I was attempting to make it clear that in _my_ case, the solution would not be simply to listen to a different radio station. I also dislike WMP, but if shakey_snake is right about "incorrect headers" then I am stuck with WMP if I want to listen to this particular content (and as I stated before, I do).

I was contradicting what I saw as misinformation in the first response -- in case someone searched & found it later, that's all. Just trying to help. Anyhow, good luck.

I follow your logic, Early Devil, thanks anyway. I'll probably continue to use WinAmp for some things, but internet radio was my primary objective. If the web master at Boston Pete has found a way to force listeners to use WMP, I suppose that we should congratulate him/her for being clever, rather than vilify him/her for pushing us into using an application we don't like. And as my friend bemymonkey has pointed out, we can always choose to listen to a different station. For me, the content is more important than the delivery mechanism.

Meanwhile, if there are any folks who can shed some additional light on the technical side of why this doesn't work in WinAmp, I'd appreciate it. WinAmp is a pretty good application, so it would be nice to stick with just one audio program.