Topic: MP3 Streaming

[Tim]

Can anyone tell me why the e-smith server insists on connecting to www.streamingcash.com to stream the audio?  90% of the time the connections fails or times out.  streamingcash.com is worthless.  Is there a configuration setting somewhere to bypass this site?

Thanks in advance.

--Tim

[robert]

Are you sure you're pointing your browser in the right direction? Sounds like the browser is guessing a name because it can't find the i-bay you're using to stream audio from (which I assume you called 'stream' or something). I stream MP3's too and I don't get any connections to the server you mentioned and I don't think that connection is configured anywhere in the system.

[Tim]

Hi Robert,

I am not really sure.  I see this www.streamingcash.com reference on other machines outside the e-smith server here.  It's all MP3 related.  When you click on the MP3 link it should play.  But in this case it doesn't.  It trys and trys to connect to streamingcash.com/cgi-bin/xchg.cgi... is shown in the status bar.  It doesn't matter what browser I use on what network.  It's all the same.

I am baffled.

Thanks for the reply.

[robert]

Hi again,
I am assuming you're using Adrian Chung's contributed RPM's and that you enabled your internet jukebox as per the instructions on the website (in the HOWTO section). I have no experience with any other method for streaming MP3's, so I have no idea how that would work, but the jukebox RPM's work fine on my server. If your problem is really a dns resolution problem, which I think it may be, try specifying your server's ip adress rather than its dns name in the browser. My server is on 192.168.1.1 on the local network for instance and the ibay that I use for MP3's is called 'music', so pointing a browser to http://192.168.1.1/music returns the list of MP3's in the ibay. If that works, try to get it to work with dns.
By the way, it's not a banner exchange thing, is it? If it is: kill the banner exchange!
Robert

[Tim]

Hi Robert,

It's Adrian's program.  Can't figure this one out.  Clicking on ANY type of media; Real, ASF, MPG, delivers the same result...."Opening http://www.stramingcash.com/cgi-bin/xchg.cgi..."

My DNS is set up properly.