Internet radio for FC3?

[john bray]

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