Bugzilla – Bug 15491
WarpRadio.com Playlist Issue
Last modified: 2010-01-20 22:05:21 UTC
WarpRadio.com is switching to using dynamic IPs. We (RadioTime) will soon switch all of the stations that use them to their new playlists. Unfortunately they seem to use some abnormal setup and you detect their playlists as HTML, however VLC and Windows Media Player have no problem playing the URL. Here's an example for WBON out of Long Island: http://www.warpradio.com/player/mediaserver.asp?id=14600&t=2
IMHO they need to fix their server configuration. It's not html, but plain text. Do you have a contact with WarpRadio.com who we or you could get in touch with about this?
Nope, no direct contact with WarpRadio's server side of things, just a random staff member at the station of the URL who doesn't really know who's responsible for it. When I brought it up he said that since Windows Media Player can handle it in their web player, they'll probably see no reason to change it. I'm holding off on switching all of the WarpRadio stations to the new playlists as long as possible, but more and more of their stations are switching to this new dynamic system, making the previous playlists invalid. On a related note, I think Crystal Media Networks has the same issue with their streams, I get a similar "No Items found in playlist" error when I try to access their URLs with a Squeezebox too: http://sp2.crystalmedianetworks.com/player/m3u/wbls/wbls.m3u I tested both with the WarpRadio.com and CrystalMediaNetworks.com urls with some of our other partners and they were able to access the streams, so it would be best if you can find some similar way of handling them. (Perhaps handle it as if it's a generic m3u playlist?)
Yeah, same problem with that link: what is a simple list of urls in plain text is served with a content-type of html. Which is wrong. But yeah, if WMP can play it, why invest a minute or two to fix the server's configuration :-(
== Auto-comment from SVN commit #29840 to the slim repo by michael == == https://svn.slimdevices.com/slim?view=revision&revision=29840 == Fixed Bug: 15491 Description: try harder to find a valid content type if radio station serves as text/plain or text/html
== Auto-comment from SVN commit #29861 to the slim repo by michael == == https://svn.slimdevices.com/slim?view=revision&revision=29861 == Bug: 15491 Description: backport change 29840 from 7.5.0 to 7.4.2