On 18 Oct 2005 15:42:17 -0500, (Martin
McCormick) said in rec.radio.scanner:

On city feeds like Denver or Washington D.C, there is an .asx
file or maybe a .pls file that can be fed to the mplayer program as
the playlist option.

That's a Winamp feed. There are a number of reasons to use it, among
them free alpha text streaming. (The listener can see what the
scanner has stopped on.)

If you're interested in Long Island, NY, try
http://suffolkscanner.redirectme.net:8000/stream
I don't know whether any software you use will be able to play it, but
the Windows Media Player link on my site
(http://www.webdingers.com/scanner.html) handles it.