WMP Link

[cyprien]

I need some help. (Don't reply with search the forums or search google or ect. If your going to help, help me with my problem and not send me to someone else problem. Thank you.)

I'm trying to get my radio to work in launch in windows media player when a Link is clicked.

Winamp works fine, but I like to have both so they can pick in case some don't have winamp.

[tuckerm]

Please search the forums before posting! Click SC101 Below and read about ASX files...

[snoopy8888]

Open a txt file.

write in it

http://xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx/

then save it as a .asx file

the upload the file on a webspace

[Stasmi]

Yeah, and once it's uploaded, then what? Full explanation, PLEASE.

After spending the better part of three days on these forums, I get the feeling people expect everyone to know everything.

I have noticed snotty little comments in the tutorials regarding 'if you don't know how to start something on Linux, then you shouldn't be using it', etc. I find it really obnoxious and very disheartening. Isn't the spirit of the Internet to learn and teach?

I have had non-stop problems with this software since I started tinkering with it on Sunday. I installed it on my PC at first, but my IPS (SBC) sent me a modem that doesn't allow for port-forwarding...which sucks.

So I installed the server on my VPS...and am getting the exact same errors...which when I ask questions, I am directed to the tutorials which I have poured over for the PAST THREE DAYS. Enough with the lazyiness! There are people on this forum who want answers...not links to crap that's already been posted and they have read over 10 times!

I am not overly experienced in Linux, so yes, I do need some extra step-by-step information regarding this. I find it very interesting that the directions I finally found on how to install Shoutcast on Linux were NOT ON THIS FORUM, but a site not related to Shoutcast or Winamp at all.

Enough of my rant, but good grief...I haven't really found these forums useful or overly friendly...

[Sawg]

One's it's uploaded. Put a link on your webpage. Then people can click on said link to open it.

Need SHOUTcast help? Read me before posting... > Implementing your Station on your Site.

And there is a difference between helping and hand holding. Also, a lot of this does require some knowledge of how to use the system you are running and how to use your own network equipment. If you need to learn how to use your system or your network equipment, that becomes no so much a SHOUTcast Education issue, and usually need to come from somewhere else at that point. You are running a server on the internet, nobody ever said it was going to be easy, or it has it should have been easy.

[Stasmi]

Originally posted by Sawg
One's it's uploaded. Put a link on your webpage. Then people can click on said link to open it.

Need SHOUTcast help? Read me before posting... > Implementing your Station on your Site.

And there is a difference between helping and hand holding. Also, a lot of this does require some knowledge of how to use the system you are running and how to use your own network equipment. If you need to learn how to use your system or your network equipment, that becomes no so much a SHOUTcast Education issue, and usually need to come from somewhere else at that point. You are running a server on the internet, nobody ever said it was going to be easy, or it has it should have been easy.

There is a difference between being busy and being superior and unfortunately, the superior attitude is what seems to be coming through. I never thought that running a server was easy. I got a VPS so I could LEARN. Here, I'll give the link to the tutorial that helped me so much: http://www.webhostingtalk.com/showthread.php?t=227645

Maybe you should add it to the pages and pages of links you have. Judging by the 6 pages of responses to this tutorial, people were looking for the information and weren't able to find it here.

You'll notice this person took the time to even tell how to start the server up after installation, instead of making a point to tell people that if they didn't know how to do that, then they shouldn't be around Linux at all.

[tuckerm]

Most people know how to configure their own servers and know how to upload stuff : /

[cyprien]

I already done that before I even started this post, but I get reports that it's open the file in winamp and not windows media player.

[Sawg]

Then people have .ASX files associated with Winamp. You cannot control how people have file types associated. If they need help with WMP, they need to contact Microsoft.

[Greg_E]

And when I needed to learn about .asx and how to make them, I hit the search engines and found what I needed. I did this on Thursday and yesterday. It's not that stinking hard!