streaming music for land... question

Hi,
I want to put music on my land. I can't seem to get the station url that I want to use. I am clueless about streaming music. But I found the website for it and can play the station in my realplayer but can't find the url for what I'm hearing. The URL for the website won't work I need the one for the station. can anyone help?
Thank you
Karra Baker

When I do this, I use winamp (PLS file extension), and open the playlist editor, right click on the stream name and select 'playlist entry' or 'view file info' which comes back with the address the .pls is connecting to.
Enjoy!

in real plyer, select File -> Cip properties -> View Cip Info

Unfortunately, Real Audio streams (endng in extensions .ra or .ram) don't work (at least not for me) in SL. I've tried and failed to find any documentation on this, but as far a I can tell, mp3 streams are the only ones supported, which carry the extensions .pls, .m3u and .mp3 (other playlist extensions may also work, not sure).

When I set up music on our group land, I was disatisfied with the streams available, so i strung together about 20 minutes of music in one 20 mb mp3 file and put it on my web space. Plays fine. The shareware sound editor Goldwave is a great tool for this.

The audio streaming system suports mp3 format but not RA or WMA.
The video streaming system suports Quicktime (most variants) not WMV.

Both audio and video are streamed direct from source to your client, not via the SL servers.
The client has a basic mp3 player built in to decode the audio stream. To watch video you first need to install the freebie quicktime player. The client then uses this to decode the video stream, mapping its output to a texture.

Thank you everyone for your replies. I got it working now and I appreciate it so much.

In my store, The Nerd Emporium, upstairs is a stereo that has a 12 station auto preset facility - all editable - for L$75, or the script only for L$50. You can change any of the channels, and it contains full instructions on finding streams and how to get the proper address that SL will handle.

Just thought I'd drop that in as it may be a simple solution to your problems, especially if you have a few channels you might want to choose from.

Lewis