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On Tue, Jan 27, 2009 at 5:41 PM, Mark Knecht <markknecht@×××××.com> wrote: |
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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> 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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Slingbox is for streaming your TV to and remotely controlling it from |
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a PC or Cell Phone. (I've got one -- doesn't work on Linux, though. |
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booo) |
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My dad has one of those portable internet radios, I don't know the |
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name but it works well and he seems to be pleased with it. (As long as |
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you're in wifi range) |