hi,
I am unable to play any radio streams such as those found at www.jazz24.org and http://www.kcrw.com/music/eclectic24

When I click on them, whether trying to use their "player" or (in case of jazz24) clicking on "mp3 stream" ... the result is simply crashing the browser, whether firefox or chrome. If I click the mp3 stream, banshee opens with an hourglass-type icon but doesn't do anything.

My local music files play fine on Banshee and I CAN listen to streaming baseball on mlb.com (which is a Flash-based player).

I have Lucid 64 bit. For some reason, I feel like these radio stations used to work, though I can't pinpoint when they stopped working. Can it be that the entire world of internet radio is closed to me on Linux? For some reason i doubt it, there must be something I'm doing wrong here?
Thanks,
Mary

Both of them work fine here in both Firefox and Opera on Ubuntu 11.04 on a Dell Inspiron 1545n. Which somewhat surprised me, because I have found NPR station players to be kind of persnickety, especially in Opera. I prefer to stream to my own player.

Try this.

Create a new user. Log in as the new user and test the streams. If they work, it will narrow down the problem to something in your user's ~/dot-configuration files. If they don't work, it will confirm that it's a global problem.

Nice choices in music, by the way.

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Both links work just fine here.
Kernel 2.6.39-2-486 i686 (32 bit)Desktop KDE 4.6.3 (Qt 4.7.3) Distro Debian sid
Firefox 4.0.1
Chrome 12.0.742.100-r88853
Flash 10.3.181.22

Okay, great! Under the new user, everything works perfectly, including the sites' own players. Now, is there a way to isolate what settings I should change? If it helps any, i am running "mythbuntu" ... not sure how that would have broken things, because I am fairly sure I had it all working earlier.

Thanks!

To rule out a bad Firefox profile, try renaming the ~/.mozilla directory to ~/.mozilla.bak then restart Firefox.
To rule out a bad Chrome profile, try renaming any chrome (or chromium) directories in your home directory. On my Lubuntu 11.04 system the the chromium directory is under the ~/.config directory.
You could also try renaming any directories for your media players in your home directory.
Was this a clean install of Mythbuntu? Or did you add the mythbuntu desktop to an existing Ubuntu Lucid 10.04 install? In any case, Mythbuntu should not cause this problem, especially since creating a new user fixes it.

The "shotgun" approach would be to delete or rename all the ~/dot-configuration files for your regular user in your home directory to start with a pristine configuration.

BTW, here is another jazz station you may like: http://wbgo.org
Or check out WRTI here in Philly: http://www.wrti.org/

Huh. All is fine now, even back on my normal user account. I didn't really change anything, but I'm happy to have my music back! Actually, I remember now when it broke... I was clicking around on the CBC radio website (http://www.cbc.ca/radio/) trying to listen to a few streams and that is when it started crashing and broke everything. now even cbc is working fine. Go figure!

Thanks for your help ... listening to WRTI now and enjoying it very much!
Mary