play shoutcast without GUI
 

I'm trying to get streams from shoutcast.com to play through a command line audio player on a Slackware 9 beta box. I'm fiddling with mpg123/321 et al, but the hard bit seems to be capturing the streap from the remote location (eg http://193.201.220.87:8000)

has anyone ever tried this ?

christo

I typed mpg123 http://193.201.220.87:8000/ the last slash seems essential. It took a couple of times to get it to work but it finally did. I did nothing special but type it in as user and root. It finally worked around the 5th time.

mp3blaster is something you might wanna look into, it's ncurses, but still console.

Cool

El Kid,

your method worked first time - that's mad! The last slash seems to make all the difference.. I'll have a look at mp3blaster too :)

thanks guys!
Christo