Amarok and audio streams

Has anyone been able to get Amarok to play anything at all. If you have please tell me how. I've been trying all day on 3 different systems using 9.1 and 9.2 to get Amarok to play a stream, any stream. I've read the handbook but I can't get Amarok to work at all. I know it's not good form to complain but what makes this really frustrating is that I pointed my safari browser on my Mac at http:// yp.shoutcast.com this morning and it's been playing all day! Xmms shows itself pre-buffering and connecting over and over again but it doesn't play anything. These two programs should play streams in a straight forward way. They don't for me. If they do for you please let my know how??? Thanks, Jerome