Say I want to play some mp3 stream over the internet with Amarok. I click on the 'add media' button, type my URL (for instance, http://nectarine.ipsyn.net:8002), click on add and... When I try to play it, most of the time I get this message and the track is skipped:

amarok: WARNING: [ArtsEngine::connectTimeout()] Cannot initialize PlayObject! Skipping this track.
Weird things is that sometimes, it works!

Am I doing something wrong here? I've tried with beta3 then 4.

Btw, fine work with beta4!

Hmmm that's strange, I listen to Nectarine pretty much all day, without problems :laugh:

Try to switch off "Display shoutcast metadata" in the settings menu, and see if it works then. Maybe there's a problem with our "TitleProxy", which extracts the stream titles from the shoutcast stream.

Are you using a http proxy, like Squid?

Just tried, no luck. I'm not using a proxy neither.

The weird thing is that I'm using Amarok at two places since beta3:

Office: stream never worked neither with beta3 nor with 4
Home: stream did work with beta3, had no luck with beta4 so far

Looks like a new bug appeared in the 'add media' box: when I add 'http://nectarine.ipsyn.net:8002' only 'http://nectarine.ipsyn' gets added to the playlist. The behavior is the same as described before, with the same message. It also does the same if I add the following playlist file:
[code:1]
[playlist]
NumberOfEntries=1
File1=http://nectarine.ipsyn.net:8002/[/code:1]

What I'm sure is that is wasn't doing so with beta3.

Oh! That's a serious bug indeed. Could you please submit a bug report?

Here's a workaround:

Don't add the stream directly to the playlist, but add the stream's .pls file (playlist containing server URLs).

That's what I do exclusively: just click on "Tune in" on shoutcast.com, or click on the "Listen now" link on the nectarine site, and amaroK will instantly add the complete server list to the playlist. This will work!

Just tried, unfortunately the behavior is the same. The weird thing is that on my home machine, everything works despite of the stream name being cutted (and no, it's not because it's overlapping the title's bar length! )

Just filled a bug report. Can it have something to do with Arts, since the error message mentions it?

Oh Sheesh man pick in the preferences "Playback" a different "Sound System" & "Output to" and it will work