Small and neat alternative to Rhythmbox for online radio.

[ron999]

Hi
I'm using Ubuntu Karmic Koala with Gnome desktop.
I listen to online radio with Rhythmbox, I have all the necessary URLs loaded in.
Now Rhythmbox is a great program but it seems like overkill just to listen to online radio.
Is anyone using an alternative for this purpose, something small and neat?

EDIT
RadioTray is what I needed.
Latest version deb is available from the website here:- http://radiotray.sourceforge.net/

[SOLVED]

[sigurnjak]

Streamtuner from this repo works great :
https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/streamtuner

One in official repos has problems with shoutcast .

[ron999]

Streamtuner from this repo works great :
https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/streamtuner

One in official repos has problems with shoutcast .

OK, thanks.
I've used Streamtuner in the past.
It's way over the top for my needs now.

[ron999]

Bump

Any more ideas?

[Jackelope King]

I use Exaile, which does online radio just fine, but that's really more of a full-fledged music player / Rhythmbox alternative. I don't know of any small, single-purpose (or more focused) online radio apps.

[ron999]

Yes, I can see the screenshots on the Exaile website.
Perhaps these are the only choices we have for streaming radio with Ubuntu.
Rhythmbox, Amorok, Streamtuner and Exaile.

[sigurnjak]

VLC supports shoutcast and it has firefox plug-in for all kinds of streaming content and you can add url to playlist . So it can play just about anything you ask it to including radio . Go to pref. , show all , playlist , service discovery and check shoutcast . Restart and open playlist and you will be able to choose shoutcast !
Enjoy !

[ron999]

Hi
Thanks for your reply.
My VLC is now set up as you suggested. It is listed as IceCAST output. There are thousands of stations.
It's interesting, but it's only doing a similar job to Streamtuner, and that's not what this thread is about.

I know that I can play individual URLs with VLC and I could probably make a directory of URLs to open with VLC too.

For me, this is no improvement on Rhythmbox.

[sigurnjak]

Audacious gtk gui is light and small .

[ron999]

Audacious gtk gui is light and small .

Yes, but it's just another media player that happens to play URL streams.