[gentoo-user] A Good player for streaming audio

[gentoo-user] A Good player for streaming audio

[Aleksey V. Kunitskiy]

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Hi
I'm using Amarok as my favorite audio player. But I listen to radio very often 
and I not found in Amarok ability of writing audio streams.
Anybody can advice me a good player for recording radio streams?
Thanks

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Aleksey V. Kunitskiy
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Re: [gentoo-user] A Good player for streaming audio

[Cory Flick]

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You could try streamtuner and streamripper in combination. I've had good
luck with those.

On 7/6/07, Aleksey V. Kunitskiy <alexey.kv@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Hi
> I'm using Amarok as my favorite audio player. But I listen to radio very
> often
> and I not found in Amarok ability of writing audio streams.
> Anybody can advice me a good player for recording radio streams?
> Thanks
>
> --
> best regards,
> Aleksey V. Kunitskiy
> my public GPG/PGP key: http://www.alexey-kv.org.ua/pubkey.asc
>
>

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Re: [gentoo-user] A Good player for streaming audio

[Marc Joliet]

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Am Freitag, den 06.07.2007, 19:35 +0300 schrieb Aleksey V. Kunitskiy:
> Hi
> I'm using Amarok as my favorite audio player. But I listen to radio very often 
> and I not found in Amarok ability of writing audio streams.
> Anybody can advice me a good player for recording radio streams?
> Thanks
> 

Hi,

I use amarok for listening to shoutcast streams myself. The only
workaround using amarok (that I found, at least) is using the "file"
output module, and using aplay for listening to the output file
(default: ~/xine-out.wav). Maybe that will suit your needs?

hth,
Marc Joliet

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Re: [gentoo-user] A Good player for streaming audio

[Aleksey V. Kunitskiy]

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On Friday 06 July 2007 21:13, Marc Joliet wrote:
>"file" output module, and using aplay for listening to the output file

Hmm, can you point me to this "file" output module, please? You are using 
aplay because that module does raw dump of the stream without header, so 
amarok can't play it?

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best regards,
Aleksey V. Kunitskiy
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Re: [gentoo-user] A Good player for streaming audio

[Marc Joliet]

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Am Freitag, den 06.07.2007, 21:44 +0300 schrieb Aleksey V. Kunitskiy:
> On Friday 06 July 2007 21:13, Marc Joliet wrote:
> >"file" output module, and using aplay for listening to the output file
> 
> Hmm, can you point me to this "file" output module, please?

Audio settings --> set audio output to "xine" engine --> change output
module (in German "Ausgabe-Modul") to "file". That writes the output to
the file "~/alsa-out.wav".

Sorry for inaccuracies from translating, I have a German locale, so I
don't know what the English version says.

Side note: I know it's possible to temporarily set the locale to en_US
in the command line. I tried doing a
$ {LANG,LANGUAGE,LOCALE}="en_US" amarok
, but amarok stayed German. Temporarily changing KDE to US English
affected the control center (immediately), but not amarok. What is the
correct way of doing this?

> You are using 
> aplay because that module does raw dump of the stream without header, so 
> amarok can't play it?
> 

Actually, I used aplay because that was what first sprung to mind ;).
You can of course use amarok, or whatever you want (I edited what I
recorded in Audacity, for instance).

HTH,
Marc

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Re: [gentoo-user] A Good player for streaming audio

[Marc Joliet]

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Am Freitag, den 06.07.2007, 12:58 -0500 schrieb Cory Flick:
> You could try streamtuner and streamripper in combination. I've had
> good luck with those. 
> 
> On 7/6/07, Aleksey V. Kunitskiy <alexey.kv@gmail.com> wrote:
[...]
> 

Hmmm... I installed both, and kind of like it. I like that it saves the
original format, while the file output of xine saves a decoded file.
Saves space :).

Of course, it doesn't exactly integrate with KDE, and 3 windows
(audacious, streamtuner, and an xterm for streamripper) are a tad
irritating, but hey, that's what virtual desktops are there for.

So being able to use streamripper from within Amarok would therefor be
the best solution. Maybe later versions of Amarok will support it. A
google search shows that it's been suggested for Summer of Code (though
it was one of many suggestions).
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Marc Joliet

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Re: [gentoo-user] A Good player for streaming audio

[Aleksey V. Kunitskiy]

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On Friday 06 July 2007 22:52, Marc Joliet wrote:
> Audio settings --> set audio output to "xine" engine --> change output
> module (in German "Ausgabe-Modul") to "file". That writes the output to
> the file "~/alsa-out.wav".
I was there but there wasn't "file" engine in the list. Seems that I've to set 
aprorriate USE flags to amarok and recompile it

> Sorry for inaccuracies from translating, I have a German locale, so I
> don't know what the English version says.
Not a big problem, I understood, thanks ;)

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best regards,
Aleksey V. Kunitskiy
my public GPG/PGP key: http://www.alexey-kv.org.ua/pubkey.asc

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Re: [gentoo-user] A Good player for streaming audio

[Marc Joliet]

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Am Samstag, den 07.07.2007, 00:44 +0300 schrieb Aleksey V. Kunitskiy:
> On Friday 06 July 2007 22:52, Marc Joliet wrote:
> > Audio settings --> set audio output to "xine" engine --> change output
> > module (in German "Ausgabe-Modul") to "file". That writes the output to
> > the file "~/alsa-out.wav".
> I was there but there wasn't "file" engine in the list. Seems that I've to set 
> aprorriate USE flags to amarok and recompile it

Hmm... I would think a xine-lib USE flag, since it is xine doing the
output work. Only thing is, I don't see which one it would be. Maybe a
USE flag of something xine-lib depends on, like libsdl? I'd think this
would be enabled by default, though.

Otherwise, I'm lost. Anybody know what to do here?

Just to be safe, I'll attach the output of
$ equery uses xine-lib
At least you can compare the USE flags to yours.

> > Sorry for inaccuracies from translating, I have a German locale, so I
> > don't know what the English version says.
> Not a big problem, I understood, thanks ;)
> 
Your welcome :).
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Marc Joliet

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[ Searching for packages matching xine-lib... ]
[ Colour Code : set unset ]
[ Legend : Left column  (U) - USE flags from make.conf              ]
[        : Right column (I) - USE flags packages was installed with ]
[ Found these USE variables for media-libs/xine-lib-1.1.4-r2 ]
 U I
 + + X           : Adds support for X11
 + + a52         : Enables support for decoding ATSC A/52 streams used in DVD
 + + aac         : Enables support for MPEG-4 AAC Audio
 + + aalib       : Adds support for media-libs/aalib (ASCII-Graphics Library)
 + + alsa        : Adds support for media-libs/alsa-lib (Advanced Linux Sound Architecture)
 - - altivec     : Adds support for optimizations for G4 and G5/ppc970 processors
 - - arts        : Adds support for aRts: the KDE sound daemon
 - - debug       : Enable extra debug codepaths, like asserts and extra output. If you want to get meaningful backtraces see http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/qa/backtraces.xml .
 - - directfb    : Adds support for DirectFB layer (library for FB devices)
 + + dts         : Enables libdts (DTS Coherent Acoustics decoder) support
 + + dvd         : Adds support for DVDs
 - - dxr3        : Support for DXR3 mpeg accelleration cards
 - - esd         : Adds support for media-sound/esound (Enlightened Sound Daemon)
 - - fbcon       : Adds framebuffer support for the console, via the kernel
 + + flac        : Adds support for the flac audio codec
 - - gnome       : Adds GNOME support
 + + gtk         : Adds support for x11-libs/gtk+ (The GIMP Toolkit)
 - - imagemagick : Enables support for Imagemagick (image converter)
 + + ipv6        : Adds support for IP version 6
 + + libcaca     : Add support for colored ASCII-art graphics
 + + mad         : Adds support for mad (high-quality mp3 decoder library and cli frontend)
 - - mmap        : Adds mmap (memory map) support
 - - mng         : Adds support for libmng (MNG images)
 + + modplug     : Build with modplug support
 + + musepack    : Enable support for the musepack audio codec
 + + nls         : Adds Native Language Support (using gettext - GNU locale utilities)
 + + opengl      : Adds support for OpenGL (3D graphics)
 - - oss         : Adds support for OSS (Open Sound System)
 - - pulseaudio  : Adds support for PulseAudio sound server
 + + samba       : Adds support for SAMBA (Windows File and Printer sharing)
 + + sdl         : Adds support for Simple Direct Layer (media library)
 + + speex       : Adds support for the speex audio codec
 + + theora      : Adds support for the Theora Video Compression Codec
 + + truetype    : Adds support for FreeType and/or FreeType2 fonts
 + + v4l         : Enables video4linux support
 + + vcd         : Video CD support
 - - vidix       : Support for vidix video output
 + + vorbis      : Adds support for the OggVorbis audio codec
 - - wavpack     : Build with WavPack support
 - - win32codecs : use win32codecs package for dll avi decoding support (wmv and what not)
 - - xcb         : Support the X C-language Binding, a replacement for Xlib
 + + xinerama    : Add support for the xinerama X11 extension, which allows you to stretch your display across multiple monitors
 + + xv          : Adds in optional support for the Xvideo extension (an X API for video playback)
 + + xvmc        : Support for XVideo Motion Compensation (accelerated mpeg playback)

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Re: [gentoo-user] A Good player for streaming audio

[Elias Probst]

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On Saturday 07 July 2007 21:52:54 Marc Joliet wrote:
> Side note: I know it's possible to temporarily set the locale to en_US
> in the command line. I tried doing a
> $ {LANG,LANGUAGE,LOCALE}="en_US" amarok
> , but amarok stayed German. Temporarily changing KDE to US English
> affected the control center (immediately), but not amarok. What is the
> correct way of doing this?
Try:
KDE_LANG=en_US amarok

Regards, Elias P.

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Re: [gentoo-user] A Good player for streaming audio

[Marc Joliet]

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Am Samstag, den 07.07.2007, 15:00 +0200 schrieb Elias Probst:
> On Saturday 07 July 2007 21:52:54 Marc Joliet wrote:
> > Side note: I know it's possible to temporarily set the locale to en_US
> > in the command line. I tried doing a
> > $ {LANG,LANGUAGE,LOCALE}="en_US" amarok
> > , but amarok stayed German. Temporarily changing KDE to US English
> > affected the control center (immediately), but not amarok. What is the
> > correct way of doing this?
> Try:
> KDE_LANG=en_US amarok
> 
> Regards, Elias P.
> 
Yes, that did it. Thanks!

So, for completions sake, to the OP:
Settings --> configure amarok --> Under "Engine", set the sound system
to "xine" and the output plugin to "file".
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Marc Joliet

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Re: [gentoo-user] A Good player for streaming audio

[Henk Boom]

On 06/07/07, Marc Joliet <marcec@gmx.de> wrote:
> Of course, it doesn't exactly integrate with KDE, and 3 windows
> (audacious, streamtuner, and an xterm for streamripper) are a tad
> irritating, but hey, that's what virtual desktops are there for.

If you're okay on the command line (or even if you aren't) you can
just write a simple script to run streamripper for you, no audacious
or streamtuner required. The only issue is getting the stream URL,
which can usually be found in the playlist file you download. Useful
command line options to check out (i.e. the ones I use) are -T -s and
-d.

    Henk Boom

P.S.: I think I remember hearing that Amarok had some way of
integrating scripts into it's UI. Maybe that could be exploited?
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Re: [gentoo-user] A Good player for streaming audio

[Marc Joliet]

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Am Samstag, den 07.07.2007, 16:00 -0400 schrieb Henk Boom:
> On 06/07/07, Marc Joliet <marcec@gmx.de> wrote:
> > Of course, it doesn't exactly integrate with KDE, and 3 windows
> > (audacious, streamtuner, and an xterm for streamripper) are a tad
> > irritating, but hey, that's what virtual desktops are there for.
> 
> If you're okay on the command line (or even if you aren't) you can
> just write a simple script to run streamripper for you, no audacious
> or streamtuner required. The only issue is getting the stream URL,
> which can usually be found in the playlist file you download. Useful
> command line options to check out (i.e. the ones I use) are -T -s and
> -d.

True, I could do that. Also, you could do a cron-job (no, wait, that's a
hideous thought!). I usually have at least one konsole open, so that
wouldn't be a problem. That might even be simpler than an amarok script.

> P.S.: I think I remember hearing that Amarok had some way of
> integrating scripts into it's UI. Maybe that could be exploited?

True, I forgot that amarok is scriptable (I don't use scripts, so
forgetting the feature was easy.) When browsing the available scripts,
it seems there's no streamripper script available already, so I will
look into that. Thanks for reminding me!

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Marc Joliet

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