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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 <paul.hartman%2Bgentoo@×××××.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 |