Re: [Banshee-List] Is there something wrong with this stream?

[Bertrand Lorentz <bertrand lorentz gmail com>]

On Fri, Mar 23, 2012 at 3:28 AM, Martin G <ebisumartin gmail com> wrote:
> Banshee list,
>
> It seems previous problems I had with internet radio streams are
> working better now, which is making me much more happy in using
> Banshee. Thanks to the developers for their work on this.

I don't think we changed anything related to radio streams between
your two message. I guess the servers for your streams were just in
better shape.
But, thanks to the work of Olivier, I've just committed a patch that
makes Banshee retry if a query for a playlist times out:
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=662909
This change is only available on git master, not in the 2.4 release.

> However, while some of my radio streams are rock solid, such as those
> from SomaFM or Digitally Imported, others are still balking. So I
> wondered if maybe there was something wrong or incompatible about the
> format of the stream itself.
>
> For example, this radio stream from the Canadian Broadcasting
> Corporation (CBC), never works:
>
> http://playerservices.streamtheworld.com/pls/CBC_R2CLAS_H.pls
>
> And it seems that none of their streams do (though I haven't tried
> every single one):
>
> http://misener.org/archives/1266
>
> After I add them to my list of stations, when I click to play them,
> they wait a few seconds and then say "idle". Sometimes, the green
> "play" triangle flicks back and forth between "pause" and "play" for a
> while, as if it is almost connecting, but then it eventually gives up
> and goes idle.
>
> Is there a reason why these streams might not be working for me?

If I fetch the playlist manually (with wget for example), the .pls
file is downloaded fine. But all the streams listed in it return the
following HTTP error if I try to download them:
ERROR 403: Forbidden
There's not much Banshee can do here...

Other streams from the CBC listed at http://www.cbc.ca/video/#/Radio
work fine, so maybe they've implemented some access restrictions on
the ones listed in that web page.
The web site does mention that some stations are restricted to Canada:
http://music.cbc.ca/#/faq/faq.aspx

-- 
Bertrand Lorentz