Internet radio for FC3?

[Antonio Olivares]

--- Chris Gramer <cgramer at fastmail.fm> 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?

If you have xmms, with the plugins for xmms-mp3 and
xmms-wma. , you can go to http://www.shoutcast.com/
and click on your favorite station(s) you should be
able to hear most stations.  You can also get
StreamTuner and tune in to stations from there.  It
uses xmms as its engine to play the files.  

If you don't like xmms, you can also play most files
with MPlayer.  It works very nicely too.  It does need
some dependencies (lib***.so,...) if you install via
rpm, yum.  However if you have most development tools
installed in your Core installation and you don't mind
compiling, MPlayer gets the job done. 

Regards,

Antonio

> 
> 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.
> 
> -- 
>   Chris Gramer
>   cgramer at fastmail.fm
> 
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