So I heard there was an earthquake in LA. I don’t have cable, so CNN was out of the question, so I figured, it’s LA, all the stations should have web streams. Well, I checked KCBS2/KCAL9, KNBC4, KTLA5, KABC7 & KTTV11/KCOP13 and ALL have web streams. But, as I found out, not [...]
So I heard there was an earthquake in LA. I don’t have cable, so CNN was out of the question, so I figured, it’s LA, all the stations should have web streams. Well, I checked KCBS2/KCAL9, KNBC4, KTLA5, KABC7 & KTTV11/KCOP13 and ALL have web streams. But, as I found out, not all of them will play in FF3.
2/9: Stream wouldn’t launch in either browser
4: Stream worked in FF3, but only after I disabled ad-block
5: Stream launched, sort of, with FF3. I got audio after clicking the “Firefox users click here”, but couldn’t get video until I opened it in IE tab. Hey, at least they’re trying to support FF3.
7: “This stream requires Internet Explorer.” Lame.
11/13: Launched with NO effort on my part other than clicking the link.
Problem: Need to consolidate the .mp3’s from my current playlist into 1 directory
Solution:
Open .m3u file in your favorite text editor
add \ before all special characters
run ‘[esc] :%g/#EXTINF/d’ on the file in vim to strip out the #EXTINF lines
add a dose of #! /bin/sh to the top of the file for good measure
chmod +x
run
Problem: Need to consolidate the .mp3’s from my current playlist into 1 directory
Solution:
Open .m3u file in your favorite text editor
add \ before all special characters
run ‘[esc] :%g/#EXTINF/d’ on the file in vim to strip out the #EXTINF lines
add a dose of #! /bin/sh to the top of the file for good measure
chmod +x
run
If I had only known it was that simple an hour ago…
Google failed me because I didn’t find the ‘%g/string/d’ command the first time I searched for how to do the replace, but instead found all the info I could find on the ’sed’ command, which apparently requires you to have a computer engineering degree to figure out how to use.
