CAST playing PLS Streams ?

[Warrior]

Hi Rob

Great program

I was wondering if it would be possible for CAST to play url's of podcasts or radio streams at all ?

Eg: Something from here : https://www.internet-radio.com/

Thanks for your time !

Rog ...

[RobLatour]

You need to fiddle around with the url a bit, but yes you can do this.

First, you need to get the url, here is how you can do that:

On the internet-radio website, right click on a .pls link and select ‘Copy link address’

Once done the following will be put into your windows clipboard, for example:

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https://www.internet-radio.com/servers/tools/playlistgenerator/?u=http://us4.internet-radio.com:8266/listen.pls&t=.pls

next, paste that into some text file, and shorten the url to the portion in yellow below, also replacing the “.pls” with “.wav” so that

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https://www.internet-radio.com/servers/tools/playlistgenerator/?u=http://uk7.internet-radio.com:8226/listen.pls&t=.pls

becomes

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http://us4.internet-radio.com:8266/listen.wav

Finally, as an example, here’s the command I used to cast the station to my google home (named "Rob's office speaker")
(if you don’t supply the -device parm then it will cast to all your devices (except your PC speakers)

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cast -device "Rob's office speaker" -url “http://us4.internet-radio.com:8266/listen.wav”

Please note the quotes around the url are important.

Also, its the first few numbers and letters between the http:// and .internet radio that seems to select the particular station to stream.

Hope this helps.

Rob

[Warrior]

Hi Rob.

Thanx for the reply.

I tried your example above but get an error message for it (without the device parm)

I tried :

cast -url “http://us4.internet-radio.com:8266/listen.wav”

But it returns ...

Warning: url value must end with: ".mp3", ".mp4", or ".wav"; switch will be ignored
Error: invalid switch: -radio.com:8266/listen.wav"

I don't think it likes the hyphen (?). I use Win 7 x64 and from a command line.

Also, the forum has truncated your above example.

https://www.internet-radio.com/servers/ ... pls&t=.pls

However, if you use the CODE tags, it won't do that.

Thus:

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https://www.internet-radio.com/servers/tools/playlistgenerator/?u=http://uk7.internet-radio.com:8226/listen.pls&t=.pls

Edit - I've been messing with Push2Run and will post some Cards here.

Rog ...

[RobLatour]

Hi Warrior,

Thanks for the tip re the code tag.

The following works fine for me:

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cast -url “http://us4.internet-radio.com:8266/listen.wav”

The error that you get reported is exactly what you would get if you don't surround the actual url with quotes. Can you double check that you have done that?

[Warrior]

I did have it is quotes :

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[RobLatour]

Can you please check that you are using the most current version of the program, version 1.2, release July 21, 2018 which was downloaded from the website - https://www.rlatour.com/cast/index.html?cast

as the command is working for me:


(Although right now - Sunday morning at 8am - the internet-radio service itself doesn't seem to be working)

To check the version of the program you are using, please just type:

cast -about

[Warrior]

Yep - 1.2

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[Warrior]

Wait - I think I found it.

Hang on ...
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Edit - Bingo

I copied and pasted your text from above.

The text you posted has invalid quotation marks in it. They appear as blocks and thus make it fail.

I retyped it in using quotes from my keyboard and away it went. Try copying and pasting your text from above and it'll fail.

Anyway, fixed now.

[RobLatour]

ok - glad it's working.

Enjoy!

[Warrior]

Yeah works well now for those internet stations.

I am trying to get my own radio station streaming on it now - It says it's streaming, and Google Home says it's playing, but there's no sound.

The sound works from other stations - Just not my station.
I normally stream my station via a pls link into Winamp.

Maybe a Google Home issue ?

Network received: 210061 bytes
Server: SHOUTcast Distributed Network Audio Server/win32 v1.9.7
Content-Type: audio/aacp
Metadata received: 89 bytes
Metadata interval: 8192 bytes
Stream name: Fm One
Current title: Presidents of the USA - Shortwave