On 24/05/2019 23:53, Pete wrote:
> In article , Pete 
wrote:
>> For many months I've been occsionally tuning in (from California...)
>> to Radio 2, last time on Monday for the Blues Show.  I had a standard
>> omxplayer bash script to do this.  Today I went to listen to Immelda May,
>> but all I could get was "Have a Nice Day!"
>
> Hmm...  I tried to connect to R2 from another browser and OS (Haiku),
> just to see if I could get any more illumination, and it required me
> to 'Log in'!  Neither Firefox on Linux-Mint, nor Firefox on my Android PDA
> ask for a log in...  May be why I can't use omxplayer any more, though.
>

The streams I supplied in my previous post don't have any facility for
logging in.

I invoke them (via some irrelevant GUI rubbish) using

mpg123 mpg123 -@ [url]


> I've no experience with boxed 'Internet Radios', which are supposedly
> capable of receiving the BBC.  Do they have any 'login' capability?
>
> [Guess I'll stick with Radio Caroline... (:-/)]
>
>  -- Pete --
>


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