On Sunday 04 May 2008 4:18:58 pm Joseph L. Casale wrote:
Anyone got a reco on a good shoutcast player that can enumerate all the stations (xmms cant?) and show bitrates (BMPx does, but its way to unstable). I am using Amarok, but it doesn't show the bitrates or what song is currently playing on the various playlists so one could make a selection, it just shows whats queued once a stream is playing.
Thanks! jlc
Joseph: Take a look at Streamtuner -- it indexes Shoutcase, Google Stations, punkcast, basic.ch, Live365 and Xiph, as well as whatever music you have stored locally (although I should point out that I mostly use Xiph). You should understand, though, that its "currently playing" feature defines "currently" as the last time that you refreshed the listing, so if you're dying to hear that old classic "I've got tears in my ears lying on back while crying my heart out over you", it won't be much help unless you are very, very lucky. It also provides _some_ information about the quality and content (.ogg, aacp, mpeg, etc) of the stream. Sadly, the developer announced late last year that the project is no longer active.
Streamtuner is easily configured to use most audio players -- a simple edit of the Preferences tab and you're good to go. FWIW, my preference is Audacious. It plays nicely with other apps, doesn't take up much desktop space, and is under active development. When I've tried streaming with either Amarok or Totem, I've notice occasional brief timeouts whereas Audacious has been pretty solid.
Both are in the Fedora repos.
-- cmg