Stream-cast online!

Possibly because of the age(?), my portable radio is getting under performace. It usually lose its tune so that eventually can't hear any sound but noise. Even if I re-tune it, it lost its sound again as soon as my hand leaves from it. It's useless! I'm picking it's getting sensitive to surrounding noise (any kinds of noise - including light!) Here I have an idea - why not switch to online streaming broadcast since we've got broadband? So that's why I turn my laptop into a "DJ box". Here's the how-to: OS: FreeBSD6.0 Realease Package: xmms-1.2.10_4 (/audio/xmms) Plug-in: xmms-liveice (/audio/xmms-liveice) 1. Install programs # cd /usr/ports/audio/xmms; make install clean # cd /usr/ports/audio/xmms-liveice; make install clean 2. xmms and plugin setting Launch xmms, press Ctr-p and a plug-ins list window shows up. In the tab "Effects Plugins" (I though it would be in "Audio I/O Plugins" but actually it's not) there should be a line says "Liveice 1.0.0 [libliveice.so]" if nothing goes wrong. Now everything's almost ready. 3. Choose channels Here I choose Shoutcast and select some casting servers (click on the "Tune in" buttons) and download their playlists. Their playlists are all uniformly named "shoutcast-playlist.pls", hence I have to rename them into other names so that they wouldn't be overwritten by any others. 4. Enjoy it! Everything's got ready. Now what I have to do is just add those downloaded (and renamed) playlists into xmms playlist and play them as normal musics. Yeah! It rocks!! No more radio disturbance!