Internet radio for FC3?
john bray
jmblin at comcast.net
Thu May 5 03:54:56 UTC 2005
On Wed, 2005-05-04 at 20:30 -0400, 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.
>
streamtuner from dag is a nice way to point xmms at streaming radio
stations. i use it all the time to listen to old time radio shows.
codecs for xmms are readily available for almost any format.
hth.
john
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