Open .pls file in Winamp (1 Viewer)

[AberDino]

Hello all,

Now DVB-t support has been added to MP I decided to explore this nice piece of software in more detail. I've got most things to work as I want, although I do still have a lot of fine-tuning and experimenting to do before I will start using it as my main HTPC app.

Unfortunately I live in an area where broadband is still not available. This means that I can't play any of the high bandwidth Shoutcast streams. However, I recently discovered a range of streams that are based on the aacPlus codec (www.opticodec.net). It is actually quite amazing how good these streams sound, even at 32k! I have to use Winamp (or foobar2000) to play these streams and I was hoping I could configure MP in such a way that pls files are redirected to Winamp.

I installed the latest version of Winamp and all pls files play fine. I then activated the Winamp plugin in MP, and assigned the pls and mp3 file extensions to it. This setup works for mp3 files; every mp3 I play in MP is played in Winamp. However, pls files are not redirected to Winamp. Anything else I should try?

Thanks in advance,

Pieter

 

[CinOxen]

Hi,

I have the same problem and was wondering if you ever solved it.

 

[AberDino]

I'm afraid not. I got hopefull when I found AACPlayer, which includes DirectShow filters, but unfortunately this also didn't work. We now have broadband here since August last year, so I never explored it any further. I still think it would be useful to be able to play AAC+ streams in MP, because the format is getting more popular every day.

 

[CinOxen]

From looking at the logs it appears as if MP sees pls files as "Radio" and mp3/wav/etc as "music" so maybe there is something rather large to get it to work which would explain why it's never been fixed.

Congratulations on getting broadband - the only way to go.