Exaile's shoutcast listing

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In Exaile I enable shoutcast plugin

Now I right-click on 'Shoutcast Radio' -> refresh
..., in order to get list of stations, but, in status bar, I only see, for a short period of time:
Contacting Shoutcast Server ...
And nada!
 
Well, here is a reason:
Joseph S. Atkinson said:
After the release of Exaile 0.3.2.0, SHOUTcast made changes with the likely
intent to purposely break compatibility with unlicensed 3rd party
implementations. SHOUTcast's parent company, AOL, has been sending injunctions
to certain FOSS developers requesting they comply with a license that is not
favorable to open source license models. As such, the SHOUTcast plugin is
actually being removed from Exaile in the next release rather than being fixed
and the developers facing any such legal issues.

This is a link to the issue as announced by the makers of VLC, explaining why
the feature was removed from their code base:

http://www.videolan.org/press/2010-1.html

There is still the possibility for using icecast I believe. If you would like to
encourage the developers to explicitly keep support for icecast you might try
the following avenues found here to voice your support:

http://exaile.org/support
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