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Date:	Tue, 8 Jun 2004 13:45:43 PDT7
From:	"J. R. Fox" <jr_fox@pacbell.net >
Reply-To:	scoug-help@scoug.com
To:	scoug-help@scoug.com
Subject:	SCOUG-Help: Re: Lost That Streaming Feeling

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> > can you run z! from a commandline window . . . .
> > example: z http://69.93.119.200:9000
> >
> > I have no idea what this one is, but, from the results I'm getting, I'm sure it
> > doesn't matter what station you plug in here.

Steve Schiffman wrote:

> It tells the program Z to use parameters which is to use the HTTP protocol
> to IP address 69.93.119.200 and connect to port 9000.
>
> Normally HTTP will connect to the default port of 80 when no specific port
> is defined. The IP:port form of IP addressing says to connect to the
> specified port at the given IP address.
>
> Responses will be received back only if a HTTP server is receiving
> connections on the designated port number. In your example, there would
> have to be a HTTP server started at IP address 69.93.119.200 that was
> listening for connections on port 9000.
>
> Steve Schiffman

Thanks for filling in the blanks there, Steve. This situation is getting curiouser.
Any of the many-pages-long roster of stations I access from the Shoutcast "front
door", via clicking on a link with the browser (with Z! set up as a Helper app., per
the instructions) will crash Z immediately. It doesn't matter what version of Z! I
plug in here. This never used to be the case, but then several months have passed in
between the times I happened to access Shoutcast. In fact, there was a period of
several months starting in 2002, where various trade organizations forced them off
the air via a judgement under the Digital Millennium Copyright Act, which I missed
altogether.

However, there is a short list of featured stations you can see at SomaFM.Com, and
*these* links now seem to be working for me. In addition, if I run Z! _standalone_,
and happen to have the exact numerical IP address -- for example
http://205.188.245.130:8010 (the station whose format they have dubbed "Secret
Agent") -- it will also stream successfully. I have tried a few others from that
page, with the same result.

Why this current limitation exists, I just don't know.

The above applies to the (older) desktop tower. I will next switch over to the XPC
(small form factor box), and see if it also applies there.

Jordan

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