On Thu, 2006-03-09 at 18:27 +0100, Florian Schmidt wrote: > On Thu, 9 Mar 2006 08:18:53 -0600 > jjbenham@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx (Jeremiah Benham) wrote: > > > Well instead of downloading the mp3 choose open. Instead of choosing > > Save. You can select open with. Then pull down the drop menu and choose > > other. Then type in /usr/bin/xmms. More that likely if just doing open > > with no setting will either already use xmms or it will use mpg123. I > > have mplayerplugin installed. My mp3's tend to go to that. You can also > > edit you /etc/mailcap or ~/.mailcap. The firefox can be set to always > > perform this with this filetype and the popup dialog will no longer > > appear for mp3. You can then change that behavior by going into > > firefox's preferences. > > I think the problem is that with this mechanism firefox always dl's the > mp3 first before playing it. THe OP wants to stream and at the same time > save. I believe the mplayer-plugin does what you want. The version I have still fails a lot (starts to buffer the file then just says "Stopped", but I can right-click, save and play with gmplayer). Lee
