Shoutcast "Tune In" links are not working for me when opening the pls files directly. If I "Save" the pls file to the desktop and THEN "open" it, it plays fine. If I select "open" directly from the initial dialog box, however, MC opens, but nothing happens. I usually have the "always ask" box UNchecked so that the "Tune In" links just start playing, but this no longer works since MC only plays the .pls files if I "Save/Open" and not if I just "Open."
In my troubleshooting, I found that this issue seems directly related to ZoneAlarm. By disabling ZA's "Privacy" settings, the "Tune In" links work correctly. Normally, I would assume that this is therefore a ZA issue. However, this ZA and MC have always worked fine on this system, and the problem suddenely showed up when I upgraded to MC 11.1. Before this, both MC10 and MC11.0 worked fine with the Shoutcast "Tune In" links -- simply clicking on a link would cause MC to open and start playing the stream. Since installing 11.1, however, it just doesn't work -- I have to "Save" the pls file first and THEN open it in order for it to work, OR I have to disable the ZA Privacy settings, which was NOT necessary before and is also NOT necessary with another system.
I know this may seem more like a ZA question, but I've tried dozens of various uninstall/reinstall procedures with both MC and ZA, and it still doesn't work. I even tried reverting to MC10 and MC11.0, but it still won't work correctly. I'm simply out of ideas, so any help I could get would be appreciated. There must be SOMETHING else I could do to get this working other than completely reformatting and reinstalling Windows, but I'm just stumped at this point.
Thanks for any help with this,
Larry