I think the wolffm site does it, too. Some how they show the title in windows media player. I just wonder how they set that all up, anyways. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Martin McCormick" <martin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> To: "Linux for blind general discussion" <blinux-list@xxxxxxxxxx> Sent: Sunday, May 29, 2005 2:01 PM Subject: More Observations on INternet Radio > I understand why javascript is used in some INternet radio > sites. A person at work was listening to something called > clintoncountyradio.com which has a nice mix of sixties-seventies > oldies and no screaming commercials. I wanted to listen to it but I > can see that it and other sites like it are going to be a problem if > one isn't running a scripting browser like either Internet Explorer or > firefox and others. > > I dug in to the clintoncounty web site and discovered that the > audio feed comes from live365.com. By dumping the source of the web > page related to the program I wanted to listen to, I found an > interesting process going on. This is an Internet radio station, not > just an audio feed of a radio station. They display the title and > artist of the song currently playing and the remaining playing time. > > I got as far as the playlist url and discovered that it is not > apparent where the audio stream comes from. > > The cascading style sheet loads a bunch of variables in to a > display and also connects your sound player with the audio feed. > > If anybody wants to play with this, try > > lynx -source http://www.live365.com/pls/front?handler=playlist\&cmd=view\&; > handle=radioccl\&noBranding=1\&noBuyButtons=1\&site=live365\& > css=/scp/live365/local.css > > Actually, all that needs to be on one line. Your line will be > 162 characters long if you want to put it in a script. I put the > backslashes in front of the & signs so that it will script and save > your fingers some work. > > If you put that long line in to an executable file such as a > very tiny shell script, you can easily run it and direct the output to > a file. That file will have about 232 lines in it and you can compare > the file right now to an older copy of the file a short time ago. > The top 72 lines appear to not change much but the time stamps and > song information are on lines 73 and above. > > I did happen to hit it once between songs and all those fields > were blank. > > I used the links or l i n k s browser for those who are > listening to this to get past as much of the javascript as I could. > When I selected the link to listen, links didn't exactly freeze, but > it got confused and displayed no links. I saved that link in the > bookmarks file and retrieved it so as to use lynx or l y n x to > dismantle the source and get to the point where I did. > > I have griped to no end about all the nasty things javascript > has done to anybody who isn't in on the secret, so to speak, but I > must admit that this is the first application that makes some sense. > I still wonder if one could construct the right kind of url that would > grab the streaming audio minus the display. > > Well, back to more experimentation. > > Martin McCormick WB5AGZ Stillwater, OK > OSU Information Technology Division Network Operations Group > > _______________________________________________ > > Blinux-list@xxxxxxxxxx > https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/blinux-list > _______________________________________________ Blinux-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/blinux-list