Internet radio for FC3?

Barry Yu barryyupuilee at sbcglobal.net
Thu May 5 01:00:25 UTC 2005


Chris Gramer wrote:

>Rather than trying to slog through getting amaroK running, I'll just
>ask:    What package do you all recommend for listening to streaming
>radio on FC3?  And is that package going to have a huge list of
>dependencies to satisfy, like a codec for every type of audio stream I
>want to play, libraries for various fonts and album art display, etc.,
>etc.?  Is there a reason everything has to be so modular in Linux? 
>Can't an audio player have everything it needs in its own
>package/archive?
>
>Anyway, sorry for ranting here.  And thanks for any help with streaming
>audio on FC3!  :-)  I really really want to be able to switch over to
>Linux full-time, but there are only two things holding me back:
>
>1.  Multimedia (i.e. music and video, and the streaming variety of them)
>2.  Games
>
>Not much can be done about the games, but certainly multimedia could be
>better and easier in Linux.  I've played streaming radio with RealPlayer
>in FC3, but it's choppy and doesn't sound very good.  (I hate RealPlayer
>in general, even in Windows.)  Anyway, thanks again.
>
>  
>
xine and mplayera add in can do Internet radio playing, use yum to 
download and install is easy, and you can download from dag repository




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