[emms-help] Re: play a url

[Leo]

On 2007-12-21 17:01 +0000, Tassilo Horn wrote:
> Leo <address@hidden> writes:
>
> Hi Leo,
>
>> How can I feed a url to emms and have it play it?
>
> Normally you should be able to add a URL to the playlist with
> `emms-add-url' and play it as if it was a simple file.
>
> If that doesn't work for you, please describe exactly what you did, what
> messages were printed and which URL you tried.
>
> For example I did `M-x emms-add-url RET
> http://www.shoutcast.com/sbin/shoutcast-playlist.pls?rn=8751&file=filename.pls'
> to check if it works.  It added the URL to the playlist and RET on it
> started playing.

I am using the stable version 3.0 and the above does not work. I am
getting this:

,----
| ssh: http: Name or service not known.
| exit
`----

Ideas?

>
> Bye,
> Tassilo

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