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June 25, 2006

.pls in WMP, RO handler update [technical article]

Damn, how could this happen... Recently I switched from Winamp to Windows Media Player (no, that's not what I was referring to in the first sentence). I'm quite satisfied, but there are some things I do miss. One of these things is the ability to open shoutcast streams. These are wrapped in .pls files which cannot be read by WMP.

A way to fix this is a console application called OpenPLSinWMP by Jon Galloway. But in my opinion a console application is not a convienent way to handle this. Every time I click a link to a .pls file I see a console window popping up which basically just opens the file, reads some lines and launches WMP with the correct info. A VBScript file could to this exactly as well. So I thought of writing that script myself.

I had a look at my old RO-launcher script and noticed an incredible mistake: I misstyped a file ending and because of that, the script does not work! When did that happen? How come nobody told me?

I already reuploaded the script file (download). Rerunning should fix the problem. I decided to implement a possibility to comment my posts on the blog hoping you will use it to point out such mistakes.