[MPlayer-users] Unable to play shoutcast radio

[Jan Knutar]

On Saturday 08 March 2008 00:49, andrew wrote:
> On Sat, Mar 08, 2008 at 12:16:45AM +0200, Jan Knutar wrote:
> > On Friday 07 March 2008 23:41, andrew wrote:
> > > and then mplayer just sits there. I am obviously missing
> > > something but neither mplayer man pages / docs or Google were
> > > helpful.
> >
> > Try put quotes around the url, mplayer -playlist "http://etc..."
>
> This appears to resolve the issue, thanks for that! Mind you I
> downloaded the actual file:
>
> $ wget
> http://www.shoutcast.com/sbin/shoutcast-playlist.pls?rn=2541&file=fil
>ename.pls

 & is interpreted by shell as a directive to put the previous command in 
the background, thus you are actually executing:

wget http://www.shoutcast.com/sbin/shoutcast-playlist.pls?rn=254

which doesn't have the entire URL.