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cnbiz850
August 10th, 2010, 09:03 AM
A few years back I used to use streamtuner to browse and play shoutcast stations. It worked very well. Later, it didn't work and someone suggested that adding a plugin to streamtuner would get it to work. And it sure did. Now I upgraded to Lucid and found it totally does not work. It either gets no list of stations or crashes with the plugin.

I then installed tunapie and it works somewhat, but not giving me full list of stations as I can find from the website. Of course I can play the stations from within Firefox, but it is not a good interface.

Searches on Linux and Shoutcast do not give much updated information (People lost interest in it?)

Just wonder what most people do with it? Do Linux people nowadays listen to Internet radio at all?

YuiDaoren
August 10th, 2010, 09:06 AM
Rhythmbox handles 'em dandy fine. It's been a few months, but MPD also handled them great.

VH-BIL
August 10th, 2010, 09:09 AM
Try songbird, I do not use shoutcast buut I use it for mp3's.
Here is a quick search I did for a shoucast plugin for songbird:
http://addons.songbirdnest.com/addon/1205

cnbiz850
August 10th, 2010, 09:16 AM
Rhythmbox handles 'em dandy fine. It's been a few months, but MPD also handled them great.

Did you mean with the "radio-brower" plugin? Well that is not very convenient - it gives me hundreds of genres with 0 stations and you have to double click on each genre to load the stations in the genre. Am I missing something?

cnbiz850
August 10th, 2010, 09:18 AM
Try songbird, I do not use shoutcast buut I use it for mp3's.
Here is a quick search I did for a shoucast plugin for songbird:
http://addons.songbirdnest.com/addon/1205

It's reported that Songbird has stopped supporting Linux and actually it is no longer in the PPA. I wonder if it is worthwhile to use it.

aeiah
August 10th, 2010, 09:18 AM
songbird is unsupported in linux now (although it has been forked to 'nightingale').

as far as i know, most of the common music players for linux will have streamcast support. i know exaile does, and im pretty sure banshee and amarok do. maybe what they offer feels added on to you and not as fully featured as you expect. i never listen to streamcasts so i don't know if they're crap in comparison to what you used before.

VH-BIL
August 10th, 2010, 09:24 AM
That is weird as it was based on gstreamer on Linux and was going to use it in windows

YuiDaoren
August 10th, 2010, 09:26 AM
Did you mean with the "radio-brower" plugin? Well that is not very convenient - it gives me hundreds of genres with 0 stations and you have to double click on each genre to load the stations in the genre. Am I missing something?
Not necessarily. Typically I know exactly what I'm looking for, so browse-ability isn't something I mess with much. The search bar is enough for me.

I'm not sure there's a lot better out there, as far as being able to browse stations.

cnbiz850
August 10th, 2010, 09:29 AM
That is weird as it was based on gstreamer on Linux and was going to use it in windows

Well, it works with for instance Xiph. Just can not decipher Shoutcast listings.

VH-BIL
August 10th, 2010, 09:30 AM
I just checked out "http://getnightingale.com/", hopefully the project is successful!

aeiah
August 10th, 2010, 09:54 AM
I just checked out "http://getnightingale.com/", hopefully the project is successful!

yea, linux is in dire need of its 25th music library manager / player

VH-BIL
August 10th, 2010, 09:57 AM
yea, linux is in dire need of its 25th music library manager / player

Sarcasm? LOL
It is all about freedom and choice my friend :p

helliewm
August 10th, 2010, 10:07 AM
There is a plug in for Banshee for internet radio, shoutcast etc in the Ubuntu Software Centre.

cnbiz850
August 10th, 2010, 01:38 PM
There is a plug in for Banshee for internet radio, shoutcast etc in the Ubuntu Software Centre.

Banshee seems OK for that - thanks for recommending.

It can't display the bitrates of stations, can it?

poluxmx
August 10th, 2010, 02:03 PM
You could try Radio Tray. http://radiotray.sourceforge.net/

Frogs Hair
August 10th, 2010, 05:31 PM
This has direct access to 350 stations and steams , I just bookmarked the player and there is no registration. It runs from Firefox with flash . There are presets, but you have to enable cookies.

cariboo
August 10th, 2010, 06:44 PM
I haven't seen anyone mention tunapie (http:///tunapie.sourceforge.net/), it is almost a direct replacement for steamtuner. Tunapie is in the repositories.

mendhak
August 10th, 2010, 06:53 PM
If you're asking about listening to shoutcast radio, I'm listening to a Shoutcast station on Rhythmbox right now. Audacious plays them fine too.

To stream, there is this thread you could look at...
http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1049920