Cannot play streamed mp3s

Zulan · Post by **Zulan** » Thu Jun 29, 2006 2:27 am

Hi!

I'm using MediaMonkey 2.5.3 and it doesnt seem to be able to handle mp3 streams from services like Kplaylist or Jinzora. Winamp does this brilliantly.

I don't get an error meesage or anything, it just doesnt play it.

Any ideas?

Post by **Lowlander** » Thu Jun 29, 2006 9:00 am

Not all types of streaming media are supported. What type of streaming media do those sites use.

The question is if copying the right plugins would enable streaming from those sites. I don't know the answer to that.

Zulan · Post by **Zulan** » Thu Jun 29, 2006 9:16 am

It's just regular mp3s, lame encoded, vbr.

Steegy · Post by **Steegy** » Thu Jun 29, 2006 5:17 pm

Try Winamp's in_mp3.dll plugin in MediaMonkey and see how that works.

Zulan · Post by **Zulan** » Fri Jun 30, 2006 1:36 am

I copied the in_mp3.dll from my winamp/plugin dir to the mediamonkey/plugin dir. But it still doesnt work. I then checked the plugin options and it doesnt seem to "see it", it's not there in the list with the other input plugins like in_wav.dll, in_wma.dll and so forth.

Steegy · Post by **Steegy** » Fri Jun 30, 2006 5:05 am

After adding a plugin to MM's plugin directory, you have to restart MM.

It works for me:

BTW: Better not install too much plugins if you don't need them, as it will slow down MM startup. But I need them all

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Zulan · Post by **Zulan** » Fri Jun 30, 2006 7:50 am

I did restart MM, but still no go. Maybe I need a different version of the dll file. Mine is exactly (308 224 bytes) large, taken from Winamp 5.24. How large is yours?

Zulan · Post by **Zulan** » Fri Jun 30, 2006 7:57 am

Ok, I solved the problem. I renamed the in_mp3.dll from winamp to in_wmp3.dll overwriting the original.

Zulan · Post by **Zulan** » Wed Aug 30, 2006 8:05 am

It would be really nice if MM could show on the slider where I am in the song like it does when you play any regular mp3 not streaming it... Any ideas?

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I solved it by upgrading the latest winampn and then copy the mentioned file from there...

Zulan · Post by **Zulan** » Wed Aug 30, 2006 8:15 am

But now I see another thing I dont like. It doesnt show the bitrate on the streamed song as winamp do

Big_Berny · Post by **Big_Berny** » Wed Aug 30, 2006 8:39 am

Try the in_mpg123 plugin from otachan, which you can download here: http://home.pages.at/big_berny/in_mpg123.zip

Just extract it into the plugin folder, it should be activated automatically since its name is in_!mpg123.dll ("!" is load first). Here it works. To uninstall it simply delete the this file.

I tried this stream http://live-one.dmd2.ch/virus/virus_bo.m3u and it showed the bitrate.

By the way this plugin also support gapless playback and much more.

Big_Berny

Zulan · Post by **Zulan** » Wed Aug 30, 2006 8:50 am

Thanks!! That solved it!

Zulan · Post by **Zulan** » Wed Aug 30, 2006 10:19 am

I was a little too quick there. It solved the problem with not showing bitrate, but it removed the slider showing where in the song I am. Still, I rather have the bitrate showing then the slider, but both would be really nice.

Big_Berny · Post by **Big_Berny** » Wed Aug 30, 2006 4:13 pm

If you hear to streams you have no time slider... AKAIK...

Big_Berny

Zulan · Post by **Zulan** » Thu Aug 31, 2006 1:51 am

I do with winamp. I even do it with MM if I use the winamp dll.