[linux-audio-user] configuring streaming music downloads in firefox

[Florian Schmidt]

On Thu, 9 Mar 2006 08:18:53 -0600
jjbenham at chicagoguitar.com (Jeremiah Benham) wrote:

> Well instead of downloading the mp3 choose open. Instead of choosing
> Save. You can select open with. Then pull down the drop menu and choose
> other. Then type in /usr/bin/xmms. More that likely if just doing open
> with no setting will either already use xmms or it will use mpg123. I
> have mplayerplugin installed. My mp3's tend to go to that. You can also
> edit you /etc/mailcap or ~/.mailcap. The firefox can be set to always
> perform this with this filetype and the popup dialog will no longer
> appear for mp3. You can then change that behavior by going into
> firefox's preferences.

I think the problem is that with this mechanism firefox always dl's the
mp3 first before playing it. THe OP wants to stream and at the same time
save.

Flo

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