Connect timed out: transport endpoint

[pankaj]

Some (NOT all) of my SkyFM and ALL my RadioIO (paid) channels get the error 'Connect timed out: transport endpoint'. This has been happening for a few weeks now.

My accounts with SkyFM and RadioIO are active, and the same URLs work within iTunes.

All other Favorites (BeatlesRadio, Live365) work fine.

Is there something I can try?

Thanks

[toby10]

Some (NOT all) of my SkyFM and ALL my RadioIO (paid) channels get the error 'Connect timed out: transport endpoint'. This has been happening for a few weeks now.

My accounts with SkyFM and RadioIO are active, and the same URLs work within iTunes.

All other Favorites (BeatlesRadio, Live365) work fine.

Is there something I can try?

Thanks

I use both SkyFM and RadioIO on SC7 and I've not had a problem.
Are you accessing them via SC or SN?
Are these "premium" accounts? Or the basic free accounts like I have?
Are you accessing the streams from your saved Favorites or from the Menu selections?

[pankaj]

I'm using SN, Premium A/cs, and from Favorites.

I copied new link locations from Sky.FM, and that seems to work.

[toby10]

I'm using SN, Premium A/cs, and from Favorites.

I copied new link locations from Sky.FM, and that seems to work.

Yeah, that's why I asked where you were selecting the stations from as they may have recently changed their URL's making your saved Favorites dead URL's. Though this would be rare for Sky.FM and RadioIO to change these.

Are your RadioIO Premiums now working as well?

[pankaj]

Yes, new link locations from Sky.FM and RadioIO seems to have sorted the issue out.

Thanks.

[eladkarako]

Yes, Sky.fm does update the URLs inside the playlist files,
say you visit sky.fm 's website under the title Smooth Jazz there are few playlist formats, the most familiar format is PLS file, which is winamp playlist, that is actually a bunch of URLs inside a text file (you can open the pls file with notepad to see what I ment..).

naturally instead of simply clicking on the pls link on Sky.fm's website you can download the file so you can hear music when ever you want in winamp by double clicking the pls file you have download.

but- ...
every now and then, Sky.fm switching URLs inside the pls files, to make you reVisit their website and download the new pls file. I've checked the updating states, and found that sky.fm switching every 2 days one URL was changed, finally after couple of days the old urls becomes to old and slow.

I loves to hear sky.fm's music selection, so I've made a little script (a cmd file which is a small text file runs a few commands in series, very easy to program), using a program called wget to download the newest pls files from Sky.fm website, no browsing nor downloading by hand is necessary.
* you should download wget and put it in same folder as the cmd file or- putting the wget inside another folder (say d:\softwares\wget) and adding the folder location to the system's path (for geeks only ..)

look at the attached zip file, containing the ready to use cmd script and wget exe file,

once you done this you can double click the SkyFmUpdater.cmd file, a small black window will shown up and the pls files will be download the the current folder.
you can get more URLs of pls files from right clicking links in sky.fm's website and "copying the URL location", also you can make the files be download to another folder's location, by replacing the dot in --directory-prefix=. to --directory-prefix="d:\software\my music location" or something like that.

if you download a program named WinKey you will be able to assign files to key combination- say you would like the hear Sky.fm's "Top Hits" Music channel with key press (for example {Win}+{T}) just open the WinKey Program and add a new shortcut to your location of tophits.pls, (select "all files" from the combobox of file's type in the open file dialog), now select a XXXXXXX key combination (Win+T for example)

when ever you wish to hear top hits just hit {Win}+{T} and the file will open fast with in winamp or what every player assigned to open your music files.


Feel Free to Send me Notes for more information, I'm assigned to this thread so I will be noticed any new note here.

Happy Holidays,
Elad Karako,
Israel.

[toby10]

Yes, Sky.fm does update the URLs inside the playlist files,
say you visit sky.fm 's website under the title Smooth Jazz there are few playlist formats, the most familiar format is PLS file, which is winamp playlist, that is actually a bunch of URLs inside a text file (you can open the pls file with notepad to see what I ment..)......

Sounds like a neat program. But both SC and SN use PLS formats and all Sky.fm listings in both SC and SN are in PLS format....
http://www.sky.fm/mp3/smoothjazz.pls

So saving any Sky.fm stream as a favorite from Internet Radio > More Radio > Sky.fm (from either SC or SN) will result in the above PLS format. Sending a PLS request to the streamer should result in the latest (and correct) URL and proper bitrate stream.

I have issues with many Internet Radio stations changing URL's frequently, but I can say Sky.fm is not one of these troublesome streams (using their PLS format) as I've had a number of Sky.fm streams saved as favorites for several years now without issue.

Note: I do not have a Premium Sky.fm account, if that makes a difference.