listening to shoutcast online radio streams

[varonbondumb]

this post is to help anyone else who has had the same problem with the new version of amarok and wants to listen to shoutcast online radio (for me, KCRW)

the old amarok included support for listening to shoutcast radio streams. however, they've taken that out and rendered amarok useless to me. I tried using rhythmbox, and it was a no go. after searching, I realized that VLC plays shoutcast streams just fine. you'll have to download the .PLS file from shoutcast.com of your radio station to your hard drive and open it with VLC. to permanently associate the PLS file type with VLC, do this:

right click - properties - open with - vlc media player - close

does anyone know of a better (more lightweigt) program than vlc to use for the purpose of listening to vlc?

[tgalati4]

sudo apt-get install tunapie audacious

In the tunapie preferences you can specify audacious (or xmms for older systems) for playback of streams.

But, I remember that KCRW uses real player (*.rm) streams so that might not work. In that case, you can either use Real Player for linux or continue to use VLC (as it has a real player codec).

[mc4man]

does anyone know of a better (more lightweigt) program than vlc to use for the purpose of listening to vlc

If you search launchpad ppa's there is something called 'Gnome Media player', which uses libvlc
(though it's very new and probably too 'lightweight

There is also just use the older amarok 1.4 ( amarok14 in a ppa) or build pana - basically a fairly full featured amarok 1.4 ( I use pana here

http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1400314&page=2

[cybrsaylr]

I'm still using rhythmbox to listen to shoutcast radio streams. The station I listened to put 3 selections in rhythmbox and the last few weeks the first to no longer play but the third choice still works but will cut out at times. Shoutcast must have changed something recently and is not as stable as it used to be before but it still works with rhythmbox for me.

[jwillar]

I also enjoy 'Shoutcast', I use Exaile and it in the default repositories. If you also install Streamripper, you'll be able to enable Exaile to record your songs.

[indymike]

Shoutcast was removed from Amarok because of licensing issues... You can add shoutcast using the script that cotko provided on kde-apps. It's not very hard, and improves Amarok's utility substantially.

[oldos2er]

Very nice! Thank you for sharing that info.

[rchiossi]

I had to stick to rhythmbox... no other solution seems to work for shoutcast... =/

[johntaylor1887]

I had to stick to rhythmbox... no other solution seems to work for shoutcast... =/

If you add gecko-mediaplayer to firefox, you can listen to shoutcast directly from firefox.

[BLTicklemonster]

If you add gecko-mediaplayer to firefox, you can listen to shoutcast directly from firefox.

??? How? I looked to see if it was an addon, but it doesn't show up.