mime types?

[Geoff Shang]

On Mon, 25 Mar 2002, Igor Gueths wrote:

> Hi all. Has anyone been able to successfully listen to ACB's MainMenu
> using freeamp under Linux with the alsa drivers? Because every time I try
> to listen to an m3u file on that page, I get redirected back to the
> archive page. However, when I go to listen to shoutcast streams, freeamp
> loads and plays the stream with no problem. So I know that I don't have
> any incorrect mime types set. Does ACB use audio/x-mpegurl or
> audio/mpegurl as the mime type for the m3u files? Both of them are set in
> /etc/mime.types to load freeamp when encountered, so I know there's no
> problem there. According to Matt Campbell, he said that the server isn't
> set to send the correct mime type (s) to a browser such as lynx. Does
> this still hold true? If anyone could enlighten me as to why I can't
> listen to ACB shows under Linux, it would be greatly apreciated. Thanks
> in advance!

Yeah it's the MIME type not being sent correctly that causes this.  I've
been meaning to nag Matt about this.  It's always been a problem with ACB
radio.  Note that the live streams work OK because they aren't M3U files.

Geoff.