I’ve gone to the ‘preferences’ menu and selected ‘ogg.’ When that didn’t seem to work, I also tried selecting ‘all’ with the same results.
WinAmp brings up eto.ogg, tells me ‘prebuffering complete,’ and does… nothing. I hit play, just in case. It tells me ‘prebuffering complete’ and continues doing nothing. I throw the laptop off the balcony into the sewage treatment plant. It stinks, but still does nothing.
No, the volume isn’t set to mute. I’m not saying I’m not dumb enough to do that, but I double-checked.
What’s the idiotic, obvious, completely apparent thing that I should be doing to get to this file?
There might be something wrong with the stream connection. I advise you to test Winamp on a file, to make sure it’s actually able to play the Ogg Vorbis audio. You can find some test audio here.
I would also try a different player program. I use Foobar2000, which, despite its name, is as no-nonsense an audio player as you get. It does everything Winamp does, and more.
Just a nitpick: The audio format is called Vorbis. The file format is called Ogg. Together they’re called Ogg Vorbis. Referring to an audio stream as “Ogg” is a bit like referring to a box of cereal as “cardboard”; just like cardboard boxes can contain other stuff, so can Ogg, and it’s not uncommon to see DivX movies in Ogg format, mostly because it’s a superior format to AVI. Yes, the names are confusing and misleading, but then the open-source world is not known for being user-friendly.
Just for your information, the stream works fine in foobar2000 on my computer, but it does not work in Winamp 3; same symptoms as you report. I tried saving a chunk of the stream to a file, and it opened fine in both programs, so it’s probably something weird in Winamp’s handling of network streams, or perhaps some incompatibility between Winamp and the server.