KLOS 95.5 Los Angeles Can Anybody Get the Station?
Thu, 07/29/2010 - 08:29 | 
wdavro8@sbcglob...
I've been hacking around for the last couple hours and can't make any sense of it.
Several older posts here said they had good luck with the format:
http://provisioning.streamtheworld.com/pls/CFEXFM.pls
so I try to add:
http://provisioning.streamtheworld.com/pls/KLOSFM.pls
http://provisioning.streamtheworld.com/pls/KLOSFMAAC.pls
and I get:
This is not a valid streaming URL!
In Firefox, If I browse to:
http://player.streamtheworld.com/jbroadcast/?CALLSIGN=KLOSFM
it brings up a very basic flash player and the station starts streaming just fine.
I try to add the above line as a station in YourMuze and it tells me:
This is not a valid streaming URL!
Using URL Snooper, I find:
http://provisioning.streamtheworld.com/infostream.php?CALLSIGN=KLOSFM&LA...
I try this and all sorts of variants of it but I always get:
This is not a valid streaming URL!
I also see in Snooper:
http://playerservices.streamtheworld.com/public/nowplaying?mountName=KLO...
and:
http://edge-dl.andomedia.com/800185/download.andomedia.com/atom2/creativ...
Andomedia being the parent of streamtheworld I put the above line in and YourMuze accepts it as a streaming URL. But when I play it, i get a 15 second commercial then 10 series of 3 ascending tones. And it continually repeats, commercial, tones, etc.
I don't know what to make of all this other than it doesn't look like I'll be able to get KLOS on YourMuze. I would certainly appreciate any help from anyone.
Thanks in advance.
Tags: Yourmuze.COM
wdavro8@sbcglob wrote:
>so I try to add:
>http://provisioning.streamtheworld.com/pls/KLOSFM.pls
>and I get:
>This is not a valid streaming URL!
Actually you came oh so close. That .pls is a playlist, which is a text file containing the media stream URL (plus two backup streams), viz.,
http://2243.live.streamtheworld.com:80/KLOSFMCMP3?lt=1
http://2243.live.streamtheworld.com:3690/KLOSFMCMP3?lt=1
http://2243.live.streamtheworld.com:443/KLOSFMCMP3?lt=1
Choose one and paste it into Firefox to bring up your media player plugin and KLOS plays loud & clear. (Well, that's what happens provided you live in the USA.)
However, you are never going to be able to listen to this station via YOURMUZE because the KLOS site denys Holland-based YOURMUZE a stream, citing "Geographic location forbidden". This means it recognises YOURMUZE as being located outside America and KLOS sure don't want no aliens listenin' in!!
So you are out of luck. Totally. :-((
The good news is that there are plenty more stations in the world. Besides, if you are in the USA then can't you simply click on one of those URL's I listed above and listen directly without going through YOURMUZE? It's a relatively low bitrate stream, probably about 28 kbps so you really don't need YOURMUZE.
I'm outside the US and to receive a feed from KLOS to my laptop I need to browse the KLOS site using a US proxy server as an intermediary so that to the KLOS server I appear to be on USA soil so am regarded as a worthy listener.