#213 .pls stream not rendered

[WoJ]

.pls streams are not rendered, mpg123 (ver 1.21.0) recognizes it as a playlist:

mpg123.exe http://statslive.infomaniak.ch/playlist/energy90s/energy90s-high.mp3/playlist.pls
High Performance MPEG 1.0/2.0/2.5 Audio Player for Layers 1, 2 and 3
        version 1.21.0; written and copyright by Michael Hipp and others
        free software (LGPL) without any warranty but with best wishes

[mpg123.c:605] error: Unknown mpeg MIME type audio/x-scpls - is it perhaps a playlist (use -@)?

[mpg123.c:606] error: If you know the stream is mpeg1/2 audio, then please report this as mpg123 bug

I am not sure this is a bug (the URL I used is a stream) or by design, I am filing just in case.

[Thomas Orgis]

Am Wed, 07 Jan 2015 13:26:00 +0000
schrieb "WoJ" woj10@users.sf.net:

[mpg123.c:605] error: Unknown mpeg MIME type audio/x-scpls - is it perhaps a playlist (use -@)?

[mpg123.c:606] error: If you know the stream is mpeg1/2 audio, then please report this as mpg123 bug
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I am not sure this is a bug (the URL I used is a stream) or by design, I am filing just in case.

That's a play on semantics. For mpg123, a stream means the actual
stream of bytes with MPEG data. A playlist is just storage for the
locations of "real" streams. The url you have there points to a
playlist, which contains the actual stream addres. This is rather
common and it's understandable that you identify "the stream" with the
playlist.

It may really be time to make mpg123 automatically try it as playlist
as it suggests itself. I didn't do that back in the days to minimize
surprises: mpg123 always tried to interpret input as bytestream unless
-@ is specified. But since web servers are so nice to send MIME types,
one could enable guessing.

[WoJ]

I must not have tried hard enough yesterday as using -@ "was not working". It works perfectly today :)
I also agree with you on the semantics and while automatically trying with the @ parameter would be nice, it is certainly not a bug per se, rather a nice-to-have (so please close the ticket I cannot do it myself, apparently).