Streaming audio from the command line?

[Res]

Hi Chris,

On Mon, 7 Nov 2005, Chris St. Pierre wrote:

> I'm trying to build a number of what will basically amount to fancy
> network-connected speakers: a headless Redhat box connected to the
> network that plays an audio stream from a Shoutcast or Shoutcast-style
> server (i.e., from a .pls file).  My preference would be to run
> everything from the command line, since I'll be using old, slow
> hardware, but I've been unable to find any apps to do this.  amaroK
> or XMMS will play streaming audio, of course, but I'd like to avoid
> firing up X.  Does anyone have any ideas?  Thanks!


An example of my local radio station works fine here:

mplayer -novideo mms://203.48.254.43/austereo-triplembrisbane &


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Res