Can't play some radio stations with Rhythmbox

[Dlizard]

Does someone know why I get the message "Couldn't start playback - Unknown playback error" when I try to play some stations (like BBC, RAI and Deutsche Welle) with Rhythmbox Music Player (even though I can listen to them on the Web)? I am puzzled by the fact that I can listen to some other stations (like Radio France and Radio Switzerland) with Rhythmbox without any problem. Is there any way to fix this?

[ubume2]

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Would be interested in getting BBC on Rhythmbox too. Can get other stations working using the list from:

http://wiki.xiph.org/VorbisStreams

[Dlizard]

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Would be interested in getting BBC on Rhythmbox too. Can get other stations working using the list from:

http://wiki.xiph.org/VorbisStreams

I tried the stations on your list. I cannot listen to most of them on Rhythmbox either. For example, when I add http://audio-ogg.ibiblio.org:8000/wcpe.ogg (a classic music station) and try to play it I get the message: "Couldn't start playback - Internal data flow error".

I can listen to that and other stations directly on the site though, so I guess it is a problem related to Rhythmbox.

[ubume2]

I did get some url links from the Shoutcast website that worked in rhythmbox.

For classical I found WETA, Colorado Public Radio, Classical Music Broadcast in Michigan, KING FM, KBAQ FM in Phoenix.
http://radio.michiganliveevents.com:8000/listen.pls
http://www.cpr.org/listen/live_class...calwebcast.com
http://kbaq.org:8080/livestream/connect_high.pls
http://www.shoutcast.com/sbin/shoutc...e=filename.pls

http://stream.weta.org:8002/listen.pls

Edit: for WCPE try this:
http://www.ibiblio.org/wcpe/wcpe.pls

[Dlizard]

I did get some url links from the Shoutcast website that worked in rhythmbox.

For classical I found WETA, Colorado Public Radio, Classical Music Broadcast in Michigan, KING FM, KBAQ FM in Phoenix.
http://radio.michiganliveevents.com:8000/listen.pls
http://www.cpr.org/listen/live_class...calwebcast.com
http://kbaq.org:8080/livestream/connect_high.pls
http://www.shoutcast.com/sbin/shoutc...e=filename.pls

http://stream.weta.org:8002/listen.pls

Edit: for WCPE try this:
http://www.ibiblio.org/wcpe/wcpe.pls

Except for the second one (cpr.org) I can listen to all of them. I still don't know why I cannot listen to some stations that present no problem to other people who use Ubuntu. Anyway, thank you for your list!

[markbuntu]

I usually need to try the different streams from the stations until I find one that works in rythmbox, usually the windows media stream. What I do is find the station with firefox and let mplayer start playing the stream then I copy the url from the properties setion there into the rythmbox add new internet station. Some work, some don't.

There are also a few stations that are using a new windowz proprietary format that is unusable in linux. If you find one of these, email the station and complain. They really want you to listen so they will do something about it if they get enough complaints.