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Asked: 2026-05-24T11:38:58+00:00

I would like to play a radio stream in Quartz Composer. This would be

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I would like to play a radio stream in Quartz Composer. This would be the first step in developing a new kind of radio player with (i hope) interesting visuals to accompany the audio.

Given a URL like this:

http://provisioning.streamtheworld.com/pls/KKCM.pls

I would like the composition to play the audio.

Quicktime Player will stream the station, so I’m hopeful there is a way to get Quartz Composer to do it, but I’ve been unable to figure it out.

update: My own research has continued and I don’t think there is a way to do this without writing a new Quartz Composer plug-in in objective-c. The most promising QC patch I found was the movie importer, but I could not make that work. If anyone knows of an existing plug-in, please chime in.

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  1. Editorial Team

    There’s no built-in way to retrieve arbitrary network data — built-in, you can only retrieve images (Image Importer patch) and XML (XML Importer patch).

    Give http://kineme.net/product/NetworkTools a try — its HTTP Query patch will let you download the .pls file; then (since it’s a pretty simple format) you can parse it using either the built-in String patches or the built-in JavaScript patch.

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