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On Tue, Jan 27, 2009 at 5:17 PM, Nick Cunningham <nick@××××××××××.net> wrote: |
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> 2009/1/27 Mark Knecht <markknecht@×××××.com> |
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>> On Tue, Jan 27, 2009 at 3:11 PM, Paul Hartman |
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>> <paul.hartman+gentoo@×××××.com> wrote: |
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>> > On Tue, Jan 27, 2009 at 5:03 PM, Mark Knecht <markknecht@×××××.com> |
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>> > wrote: |
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>> >> My dad is interested in some sort of an Internet Radio app for his |
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>> >> Gnome desktop. He was thinking of buying a Slingbox but has backed off |
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>> >> the idea. For a while we played with iTunes under Wine but that's sort |
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>> >> of a mess so I'm looking for something native to Linux. |
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>> > I don't understand what Slingbox has to do with internet radio. Amarok |
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>> > 2 (not gnome) has hundreds of internet radio stations in it... |
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>> > I think most of them are just mp3 streams, so if you get the URL from |
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>> > anywhere out there on the web you should be able to play it with any |
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>> > media player I would think. Check out shoutcast.com. |
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>> Am I wrong about the product name? It was specifically a stand alone |
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>> Internet radio player. It looks like a clock radio almost that sits by |
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>> the bed. I'm not finding it on their site now. Wonder if they |
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>> discontinued it? Maybe I'm thinking of the wrong company. It used to |
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>> show up on the Pandora site but I don't see it there either. |
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>> Anyway, I should have stated that he has almost no interest in |
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>> listening to music. He wants to listen to news form around the world. |
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>> BBC, NPR and whatever he can find. |
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>> I was looking at Amarok 2 based on your other thread and that reminded |
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>> me about this topic. I didn't want to hijack that thread though. |
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>> What keywords are required to get Amarok 2 to build? I'm not clear |
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>> what ~*2.0.1.1 means. |
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>> Thanks, |
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>> Mark |
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> Be aware that amarok2 is currently broken on amd64 (hence the mask) due to |
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> problems with mysql (which it now requires by default). If you look back in |
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> the archives there have been threads explaining how to work around it and |
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> get mysql working so amarok2 builds ok. |
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> - Nick |
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Thanks. I'm going to build it on ~x86 instead. |
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cheers, |
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Mark |
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