Script Error on Line 1298 opening Shoutcast (kill the ads)

BongoBongoBong! · 24th November 2006, 13:20

1: I am a NEWBIE (erhmhm) so pls dont scalp me.

2: I tried for over an hour to find a similar problem in all forums. (and prolly missed it....)

3: My firewall (and the one of my router IS configured correctly); reinstalling 5.32(pro) doesn't change a f**t.
3: Whenever I chose "Shoutcast media" from the media library, I get the Error: "Script Error on Line 1298. Continue executing this Page?" If I answer "Yes" all streams are displayed correctly (well obviously). - but the error nags nevertheless.
4: If I add a station to "Bookmarks" the title of the station is displayed in a strange dialect of Clingon, or is that some incomprehensible garbage code? (No offense meant to any literate Clingons) - the URI is saved correctly nevertheless...

So if some loving tech-head could please put a potplant into the emptiness of my wisdom......

THX L8d!!
BongoBong! (keeps on Bonging)

DJ Egg · 24th November 2006, 14:57

You can thank the wonderful (not!) ad banner at the top for this.

http://forums.winamp.com/showthread.php?threadid=260083
http://forums.winamp.com/showthread.php?threadid=260060

Like me, you've probably got one or both of ar.atwola.com and twx.doubleclick.net remapped to localhost in your Hosts file, and/or listed in IE's Restricted Sites zone (eg. apps like Spybot SD and SpywareBlaster will add these known ad servers to the Restricted Sites zone).

The result is that you won't see the ads. However, because Winamp's online services uses an embedded IE window but, at the same time, doesn't recognize/use the IE Advanced setting to disable script debugging & not to display a notification about every script error, this then results in the script error popups that we're all seeing.

Yes, it sucks. But there's not much we can do about it at the moment :-(
(well, there is... but I would really get shot for it this time)

[Edit]

Update: You only need to have twx.doubleclick.net blocked to stop the ads. Blocking ar.atwola.com is what causes the script errors, so unblock that and everything should be ok (no ads, no script errors).

BongoBongoBong! · 24th November 2006, 15:15

Hrmpf (cit. Ironbeard the Grudging)

So what we have here is ADWARE in a paying piece of s-
ehrm software that is?

Weeeeeeellll well, guess its time to fire up good ole
Ubuntu and listen to my music with Amarok again.....

Unless that is, of course some wise programmer choose to
wipe that "feature" off the otherwise almost perfect soft...
(or at least do it in some decent way)

Oh, yes this acid remark will bring me some grudges - but then
again - if it helps further improve this soft, its ok.

Come on - bring some more weight! My back is getting stronger and stronger!! (cit. BongoBong!)

DJ Egg · 24th November 2006, 16:01

Get out the guns!

Unzip attachment to the winamp\plugins\ml folder
edit ml_online.ini accordingly.

No further help on this one, you'll have to work it out for yourself.

Please use the updated version from the post below instead

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Tag · 25th November 2006, 03:08

Shoutcast is a 100% free service that's provided at a great cost to Winamp/Nullsoft/AOL. We have to pay for it some how. What would *you* suggest we do?

DJ Egg · 25th November 2006, 12:42

Charge the broadcasters a small fee maybe? Instead of hosting them for free and trying to compensate by punishing the users with ads.

ujay · 25th November 2006, 14:50

Thanks for the fix Egg.

Any reason not to use this as a local file(for the folks without webspace) ?

UJ

DJ Egg · 25th November 2006, 15:14

I tried that first, but it didn't work (comes up with an 'internet connection required' type of error). Does it work ok for you?

ujay · 25th November 2006, 15:23

Yeah, it's ok for me.

I'll try it on a standard ml_online.ini and get back. (I'm running Online Services through a custom page ATM)

[edit] Looks ok.

UJ

siebe83 · 25th November 2006, 19:56

Quote:

Originally posted by Tag
Shoutcast is a 100% free service that's provided at a great cost to Winamp/Nullsoft/AOL. We have to pay for it some how. What would *you* suggest we do?

I personally don't even mind seeing a few ads that much, but only within limits.

That means they should not cause script errors, should not use flash (flash ads bog down the system and terribly slow down page-loading), and should not look like the ads I had last month on the Now Playing page:
http://m.fr.2mdn.net/viewad/1308393/..._v1_041006.GIF
http://m.fr.2mdn.net/viewad/1308393/...R_04102006.GIF
http://m.fr.2mdn.net/viewad/1308393/...o_06102006.gif

With a pic like that the NP page is basically useless, unless you don't mind getting sick.

(Sorry for going off-topic with the NP page part, but those pics really were annoying...
And then I'm not even mentioning the cases where ads produced sounds (in a media player!), though I guess that's been fixed by now...)

[/rant]

DJ Egg · 25th November 2006, 20:08

ugh

DJ Egg · 30th November 2006, 22:04

updated :-)

(working bookmarks & follows winamp's global text font/size setting)

Please use the updated version from the post below instead

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ujay · 1st December 2006, 01:32

Thanks Egg

UJ

rob311fan · 1st December 2006, 14:40

thanks egg! I've been looking for this for a while
now if theres something to get rid of the aol adds in in2tv i'd be a happy Winamper

ujay · 1st December 2006, 15:17

Getting odd colours in the config screen. Not sure if this is serverside code or the Media Library, seems independent of the skin. There's a similar effect with CDDB look ups, missing bit plane or overlay by the look of it. Benign as far as I can tell.

UJ

DJ Egg · 1st December 2006, 15:39

@ujay
It's the same in the original version, so there's not much I can do about it.
It doesn't look like it's anything in the .css either, heh.

@rob311fan
I don't bother with in2tv personally, but look at ml_online.ini, find the url, load it in IE, view source, save to a .html file, and edit in Notepad accordingly. Basically, you'll need to locate & comment out the javascript which points to the ads, and change all the url's (images, links, etc) to absolute instead of relative. Good luck with that.

ujay · 1st December 2006, 15:51

Pretty sure it's the Media Library not drawing properly since it turns up elsewhere.

UJ

rob311fan · 1st December 2006, 15:52

I see. Should I read-only the edited ml_online.ini or could this conflict with future installs?

DJ Egg · 1st December 2006, 16:22

Just make a backup copy of it, so you can restore it at any time later.

MeanStang · 6th December 2006, 10:33

so i take it that i need my own website to be able to use this SC FIX?

DJ Egg · 6th December 2006, 10:46

No, you don't.

You can actually get it to work by just placing sc.html in eg. the Winamp\Plugins\ml folder and editing ml_online.ini to point to it.

ElementURL6=file:///C:/Program%20Files/Winamp/Plugins/ml/sc.html

(where '6' corresponds to whatever the correct number is for the Shoutcast Radio entry).

So much for my 'no further help on this one' comment above, eh?! ;-)

MeanStang · 6th December 2006, 11:24

hey thanks im going to do this quick before you change your mind an delete the post.

DJ Egg · 18th December 2006, 21:44

Another update... includes latest sc radio & tv
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Please use the updated version from the post below instead

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Winner2 · 14th January 2007, 16:08

DJ Egg,

I am getting script errors with the provided sc.html and tv.html.

sc.html:
Line: 1482
Char: 5
Error: 's_265' is undefined
Code: 0

tv.html:
Line: 1236
Char: 5
Error: 's_265' is undefined
Code: 0

Winner2 · 14th January 2007, 16:27

DJ Egg,

Unless you see something amiss in the html code, my problem report can probably be dismissed. It seems that Proxomitron might be doing something to these pages; I'll investigate a bit more.

Thanks!

kostelo · 14th February 2007, 07:27

After I upgraded to 5.33 version and using this fix, none of the lists load. Just empty space and neither search gives any results. What happened? My shoutcast radio and tv don't work anymore.

DJ Egg · 14th February 2007, 07:35

The default sc radio & tv views aren't even working for me at the moment, so I expect it to be related...

Watch this space for updates.

DJ Egg · 14th February 2007, 11:06

Updated for 5.33

Please note that if you get any 'genre load failed' or 'no stations available' errors, then this has got nothing to do with these html files, but is a (temporary) serverside error/issue (ie. it also occurs with the default serverside listings).

ujay · 14th February 2007, 14:45

Thanks Egg

UJ

MeanStang · 15th February 2007, 03:53

i tried this and im getting "TypeError: Object expected". and the columns and listings are all jumbled together now.

DJ Egg · 15th February 2007, 09:01

You definitely 'tried' the version for 5.33 from my previous post above?
Did you edit ml_online.ini accordingly? (with Winamp closed)
And you're definitely using Winamp 5.33 with ml_online.dll v1.31 ?

Have you tried emptying the Internet Explorer cache (delete Temp Internet Files)?

http://forums.winamp.com/showthread....d=161361#specs
HijackThis & my_plugins_list.txt logs might show something...
Other than that, I really aren't sure what's causing your problem.
It works just fine here :-)

waterloo_sunset · 15th February 2007, 10:11

Am experiencing the same problem as MeanStang. Used to work great with the previous version. No third party plugins installed. Did a clean install of 5.33.

MeanStang · 15th February 2007, 10:27

SC.HTML
Line: 1058
Char: 3
Error: Object Expected
Code: 0

TV.HTML
Line: 741
Char: 3
Error: Object expected
Code: 0

In the meantime while you figure this out, can you tell me what the ml_online.ini originally referenced for tv and sc, was it winamp.com?

waterloo_sunset · 15th February 2007, 10:34

http://www.winamp.com/bin/om/sc/
http://www.winamp.com/bin/om/tv/

DJ Egg · 15th February 2007, 11:00

Aah, looks like there's been another serverside update. Doh!

Yup, those are the two correct url's.

I'll post another update shortly....

DJ Egg · 15th February 2007, 11:46

Updated for 5.33+

Fixed versions attached with latest updates

Note: I recommend that you change the name of the TV one from tv.html to something else, eg. sctv.html, because the Winamp installer always seems to delete tv.html

_______________________________________________

Update: Nov 2007

Get the update for 5.5+ here

_______________________________________________

waterloo_sunset · 15th February 2007, 16:52

Works beautifully now. Thank You!

dedbeat · 22nd March 2007, 14:48

sorry...im a noob. edited ml_online.ini as requested and pasted attached html files in directory. i still get script errors. though im not sure how its got anything to do with shoutcast and tv since all i have to do is click on any song in my library and voila...script error. HELP!

dedbeat · 22nd March 2007, 15:00

just realized the topic is on shoutcast. my bad. any fix for my issue though?

siebe83 · 23rd March 2007, 12:31

See if these threads are of any help...

Script/Runtime Errors in Now Playing, Show Info, Dashboard
http://forums.winamp.com/showthread.php?threadid=258575
http://forums.winamp.com/showthread.php?threadid=258559

24th November 2006, 13:20	#1
BongoBongoBong! Junior Member Join Date: Nov 2006 Posts: 5	Script Error on Line 1298 opening Shoutcast 1: I am a NEWBIE (erhmhm) so pls dont scalp me. 2: I tried for over an hour to find a similar problem in all forums. (and prolly missed it....) 3: My firewall (and the one of my router IS configured correctly); reinstalling 5.32(pro) doesn't change a f**t. 3: Whenever I chose "Shoutcast media" from the media library, I get the Error: "Script Error on Line 1298. Continue executing this Page?" If I answer "Yes" all streams are displayed correctly (well obviously). - but the error nags nevertheless. 4: If I add a station to "Bookmarks" the title of the station is displayed in a strange dialect of Clingon, or is that some incomprehensible garbage code? (No offense meant to any literate Clingons) - the URI is saved correctly nevertheless... So if some loving tech-head could please put a potplant into the emptiness of my wisdom...... THX L8d!! BongoBong! (keeps on Bonging)

24th November 2006, 14:57	#2
DJ Egg Techorator Winamp Team Join Date: Jun 2000 Posts: 35,130	You can thank the wonderful (not!) ad banner at the top for this. http://forums.winamp.com/showthread.php?threadid=260083 http://forums.winamp.com/showthread.php?threadid=260060 Like me, you've probably got one or both of ar.atwola.com and twx.doubleclick.net remapped to localhost in your Hosts file, and/or listed in IE's Restricted Sites zone (eg. apps like Spybot SD and SpywareBlaster will add these known ad servers to the Restricted Sites zone). The result is that you won't see the ads. However, because Winamp's online services uses an embedded IE window but, at the same time, doesn't recognize/use the IE Advanced setting to disable script debugging & not to display a notification about every script error, this then results in the script error popups that we're all seeing. Yes, it sucks. But there's not much we can do about it at the moment :-( (well, there is... but I would really get shot for it this time) [Edit] Update: You only need to have twx.doubleclick.net blocked to stop the ads. Blocking ar.atwola.com is what causes the script errors, so unblock that and everything should be ok (no ads, no script errors). Playlist -\|- Twitter

24th November 2006, 15:15	#3
BongoBongoBong! Junior Member Join Date: Nov 2006 Posts: 5	AHA a Nagscreen in Payware isit? Hrmpf (cit. Ironbeard the Grudging) So what we have here is ADWARE in a paying piece of s- ehrm software that is? Weeeeeeellll well, guess its time to fire up good ole Ubuntu and listen to my music with Amarok again..... Unless that is, of course some wise programmer choose to wipe that "feature" off the otherwise almost perfect soft... (or at least do it in some decent way) Oh, yes this acid remark will bring me some grudges - but then again - if it helps further improve this soft, its ok. Come on - bring some more weight! My back is getting stronger and stronger!! (cit. BongoBong!)

25th November 2006, 03:08	#5
Tag Streaming Media Expert Join Date: Apr 2000 Location: Fort Collins, Colorado Posts: 137	Shoutcast is a 100% free service that's provided at a great cost to Winamp/Nullsoft/AOL. We have to pay for it some how. What would you suggest we do? Powered by Redbull and Progressive House

25th November 2006, 12:42	#6
DJ Egg Techorator Winamp Team Join Date: Jun 2000 Posts: 35,130	Charge the broadcasters a small fee maybe? Instead of hosting them for free and trying to compensate by punishing the users with ads. Playlist -\|- Twitter

25th November 2006, 14:50	#7
ujay Forum King Join Date: Jul 2001 Location: London Posts: 5,989	Thanks for the fix Egg. Any reason not to use this as a local file(for the folks without webspace) ? UJ

25th November 2006, 15:14	#8
DJ Egg Techorator Winamp Team Join Date: Jun 2000 Posts: 35,130	I tried that first, but it didn't work (comes up with an 'internet connection required' type of error). Does it work ok for you? Playlist -\|- Twitter

25th November 2006, 15:23	#9
ujay Forum King Join Date: Jul 2001 Location: London Posts: 5,989	Yeah, it's ok for me. I'll try it on a standard ml_online.ini and get back. (I'm running Online Services through a custom page ATM) [edit] Looks ok. UJ

25th November 2006, 20:08	#11
DJ Egg Techorator Winamp Team Join Date: Jun 2000 Posts: 35,130	ugh Playlist -\|- Twitter

1st December 2006, 01:32	#13
ujay Forum King Join Date: Jul 2001 Location: London Posts: 5,989	Thanks Egg UJ

1st December 2006, 14:40	#14
rob311fan Member Join Date: May 2005 Location: jacksonville,fl Posts: 57	thanks egg! I've been looking for this for a while now if theres something to get rid of the aol adds in in2tv i'd be a happy Winamper

1st December 2006, 15:17	#15
ujay Forum King Join Date: Jul 2001 Location: London Posts: 5,989	Getting odd colours in the config screen. Not sure if this is serverside code or the Media Library, seems independent of the skin. There's a similar effect with CDDB look ups, missing bit plane or overlay by the look of it. Benign as far as I can tell. UJ

1st December 2006, 15:39	#16
DJ Egg Techorator Winamp Team Join Date: Jun 2000 Posts: 35,130	@ujay It's the same in the original version, so there's not much I can do about it. It doesn't look like it's anything in the .css either, heh. @rob311fan I don't bother with in2tv personally, but look at ml_online.ini, find the url, load it in IE, view source, save to a .html file, and edit in Notepad accordingly. Basically, you'll need to locate & comment out the javascript which points to the ads, and change all the url's (images, links, etc) to absolute instead of relative. Good luck with that. Playlist -\|- Twitter

1st December 2006, 15:51	#17
ujay Forum King Join Date: Jul 2001 Location: London Posts: 5,989	Pretty sure it's the Media Library not drawing properly since it turns up elsewhere. UJ

1st December 2006, 15:52	#18
rob311fan Member Join Date: May 2005 Location: jacksonville,fl Posts: 57	I see. Should I read-only the edited ml_online.ini or could this conflict with future installs?

1st December 2006, 16:22	#19
DJ Egg Techorator Winamp Team Join Date: Jun 2000 Posts: 35,130	Just make a backup copy of it, so you can restore it at any time later. Playlist -\|- Twitter

6th December 2006, 10:33	#20
MeanStang Junior Member Join Date: Feb 2006 Posts: 25	so i take it that i need my own website to be able to use this SC FIX?

6th December 2006, 10:46	#21
DJ Egg Techorator Winamp Team Join Date: Jun 2000 Posts: 35,130	No, you don't. You can actually get it to work by just placing sc.html in eg. the Winamp\Plugins\ml folder and editing ml_online.ini to point to it. ElementURL6=file:///C:/Program%20Files/Winamp/Plugins/ml/sc.html (where '6' corresponds to whatever the correct number is for the Shoutcast Radio entry). So much for my 'no further help on this one' comment above, eh?! ;-) Playlist -\|- Twitter

6th December 2006, 11:24	#22
MeanStang Junior Member Join Date: Feb 2006 Posts: 25	hey thanks im going to do this quick before you change your mind an delete the post.

14th January 2007, 16:08	#24
Winner2 Member Join Date: Jul 2002 Posts: 62	DJ Egg, I am getting script errors with the provided sc.html and tv.html. sc.html: Line: 1482 Char: 5 Error: 's_265' is undefined Code: 0 tv.html: Line: 1236 Char: 5 Error: 's_265' is undefined Code: 0

14th January 2007, 16:27	#25
Winner2 Member Join Date: Jul 2002 Posts: 62	DJ Egg, Unless you see something amiss in the html code, my problem report can probably be dismissed. It seems that Proxomitron might be doing something to these pages; I'll investigate a bit more. Thanks!

14th February 2007, 07:27	#26
kostelo Junior Member Join Date: Jun 2006 Posts: 13	After I upgraded to 5.33 version and using this fix, none of the lists load. Just empty space and neither search gives any results. What happened? My shoutcast radio and tv don't work anymore.

14th February 2007, 07:35	#27
DJ Egg Techorator Winamp Team Join Date: Jun 2000 Posts: 35,130	The default sc radio & tv views aren't even working for me at the moment, so I expect it to be related... Watch this space for updates. Playlist -\|- Twitter

14th February 2007, 11:06	#28
DJ Egg Techorator Winamp Team Join Date: Jun 2000 Posts: 35,130	Updated for 5.33 Please note that if you get any 'genre load failed' or 'no stations available' errors, then this has got nothing to do with these html files, but is a (temporary) serverside error/issue (ie. it also occurs with the default serverside listings).

14th February 2007, 14:45	#29
ujay Forum King Join Date: Jul 2001 Location: London Posts: 5,989	Thanks Egg UJ

15th February 2007, 03:53	#30
MeanStang Junior Member Join Date: Feb 2006 Posts: 25	i tried this and im getting "TypeError: Object expected". and the columns and listings are all jumbled together now.

15th February 2007, 09:01	#31
DJ Egg Techorator Winamp Team Join Date: Jun 2000 Posts: 35,130	You definitely 'tried' the version for 5.33 from my previous post above? Did you edit ml_online.ini accordingly? (with Winamp closed) And you're definitely using Winamp 5.33 with ml_online.dll v1.31 ? Have you tried emptying the Internet Explorer cache (delete Temp Internet Files)? http://forums.winamp.com/showthread....d=161361#specs HijackThis & my_plugins_list.txt logs might show something... Other than that, I really aren't sure what's causing your problem. It works just fine here :-) Playlist -\|- Twitter

15th February 2007, 10:11	#32
waterloo_sunset Junior Member Join Date: Feb 2007 Posts: 7	Am experiencing the same problem as MeanStang. Used to work great with the previous version. No third party plugins installed. Did a clean install of 5.33.

15th February 2007, 10:27	#33
MeanStang Junior Member Join Date: Feb 2006 Posts: 25	SC.HTML Line: 1058 Char: 3 Error: Object Expected Code: 0 TV.HTML Line: 741 Char: 3 Error: Object expected Code: 0 In the meantime while you figure this out, can you tell me what the ml_online.ini originally referenced for tv and sc, was it winamp.com?

15th February 2007, 10:34	#34
waterloo_sunset Junior Member Join Date: Feb 2007 Posts: 7	http://www.winamp.com/bin/om/sc/ http://www.winamp.com/bin/om/tv/

15th February 2007, 11:00	#35
DJ Egg Techorator Winamp Team Join Date: Jun 2000 Posts: 35,130	Aah, looks like there's been another serverside update. Doh! Yup, those are the two correct url's. I'll post another update shortly.... Playlist -\|- Twitter

15th February 2007, 16:52	#37
waterloo_sunset Junior Member Join Date: Feb 2007 Posts: 7	Works beautifully now. Thank You!

22nd March 2007, 14:48	#38
dedbeat Junior Member Join Date: Oct 2006 Posts: 11	sorry...im a noob. edited ml_online.ini as requested and pasted attached html files in directory. i still get script errors. though im not sure how its got anything to do with shoutcast and tv since all i have to do is click on any song in my library and voila...script error. HELP!

22nd March 2007, 15:00	#39
dedbeat Junior Member Join Date: Oct 2006 Posts: 11	just realized the topic is on shoutcast. my bad. any fix for my issue though?

23rd March 2007, 12:31	#40
siebe83 Forum King Join Date: Feb 2004 Posts: 9,222	See if these threads are of any help... Script/Runtime Errors in Now Playing, Show Info, Dashboard http://forums.winamp.com/showthread.php?threadid=258575 http://forums.winamp.com/showthread.php?threadid=258559 Good Winamp plugins by Joonas, DrO and shaneh. If you're bored go here or, if the boredom is more serious, here.