Problem Handling WarpRadio.com Playlists

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What steps will reproduce the problem?
1. Open Gnome-mplayer
2. Open Location
3. http://www.warpradio.com/player/mediaserver.asp?id=14600&t=2&streamRate=

What is the expected output? What do you see instead?
Audio stream of WBON, when I open it with a -v on the command line it shows
that it can't figure out what format it is and tries random methods.

What version of the product are you using? On what operating system?
gnome-mplayer 0.9.9 (Built from the lastest svn as of 1/18/2010)
Ubuntu 9.10

Please provide any additional information below.
WarpRadio.com for some reason uses an abnormal playlist format. Windows
Media Player and VLC can play their URLs, however gnome-mplayer cannot play
it. Because of this, I also cannot listen to stations that use them since
gecko-mediaplayer doesn't spport it either.

Original issue reported on code.google.com by kyl...@gmail.com on 19 Jan 2010 at 4:47

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Another example of a playlist URL with a similar issue:
http://sp2.crystalmedianetworks.com/player/m3u/wbls/wbls.m3u

The issue seems to be that an improper server configuration on their end sends 
this
as if it's plain text, however these should be handled as basic generic m3u
playlists. Since Windows Media Player can handle them and thus their webplayer 
can
handle it, they likely see no reason to fix it.

Original comment by kyl...@gmail.com on 19 Jan 2010 at 11:46

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Yes the website sends the wrong mimetype for this file..

wget http://sp2.crystalmedianetworks.com/player/m3u/wbls/wbls.m3u
--2010-01-19 17:35:33--  
http://sp2.crystalmedianetworks.com/player/m3u/wbls/wbls.m3u
Resolving sp2.crystalmedianetworks.com... 72.13.89.3
Connecting to sp2.crystalmedianetworks.com|72.13.89.3|:80... connected.
HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 200 OK
Length: 217 [text/html]
Saving to: `wbls.m3u'

100%[======================================>] 217         --.-K/s   in 0s      

2010-01-19 17:35:34 (24.4 MB/s) - `wbls.m3u' saved [217/217]

text/html is definitely wrong for a .m3u file.

Original comment by kdeko...@gmail.com on 20 Jan 2010 at 12:36

• Changed state: Done
• Added labels: Type-Other
• Removed labels: Type-Defect

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I still can't play it with the latest svn.

Original comment by kyl...@gmail.com on 25 Jan 2010 at 6:25

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That is because the website is still broken.. until they fix it, I can't do 
anything.

Original comment by kdeko...@gmail.com on 25 Jan 2010 at 7:28

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Just a note, I was able to play the Warp one on mplayer with the -playlist flag 
set.

I got in touch with WarpRadio.com via their contact "Q@WarpRadio.com", and
unfortunately they see nothing wrong with it. Maybe you can have better luck as 
a
developer and show them how they screwed up.

Original comment by kyl...@gmail.com on 26 Jan 2010 at 6:53

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The latest build where you implemented the -playlist parameter got it working.

Just a message for anyone coming across this, the station switched to a new, and
better, streaming provider on 2/1, so the sample URL won't work for anyone who 
wants
to test this.

Original comment by kyl...@gmail.com on 2 Feb 2010 at 9:55