[gentoo-user] Internet radio?

[gentoo-user] Internet radio?

[Mark Knecht]

My dad is interested in some sort of an Internet Radio app for his
Gnome desktop. He was thinking of buying a Slingbox but has backed off
the idea. For a while we played with iTunes under Wine but that's sort
of a mess so I'm looking for something native to Linux.

Thanks,
Mark

Re: [gentoo-user] Internet radio?

[Chris Thomas]

Does he want to stream audio or listen to streaming audio? If he just
wants to listen Rhythmbox (and most audio players) can do that. If he
wants to stream, look at icecast. If he buys a slingbox he'll need to
run the slingbox software under wine.

-Chris

On Tue, Jan 27, 2009 at 6:03 PM, Mark Knecht <markknecht@gmail.com> wrote:
> My dad is interested in some sort of an Internet Radio app for his
> Gnome desktop. He was thinking of buying a Slingbox but has backed off
> the idea. For a while we played with iTunes under Wine but that's sort
> of a mess so I'm looking for something native to Linux.
>
> Thanks,
> Mark
>
>

Re: [gentoo-user] Internet radio?

[Paul Hartman]

On Tue, Jan 27, 2009 at 5:03 PM, Mark Knecht <markknecht@gmail.com> wrote:
> My dad is interested in some sort of an Internet Radio app for his
> Gnome desktop. He was thinking of buying a Slingbox but has backed off
> the idea. For a while we played with iTunes under Wine but that's sort
> of a mess so I'm looking for something native to Linux.

I don't understand what Slingbox has to do with internet radio. Amarok
2 (not gnome) has hundreds of internet radio stations in it...

I think most of them are just mp3 streams, so if you get the URL from
anywhere out there on the web you should be able to play it with any
media player I would think. Check out shoutcast.com.

Re: [gentoo-user] Internet radio?

[Mark Knecht]

On Tue, Jan 27, 2009 at 3:11 PM, Paul Hartman
<paul.hartman+gentoo@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Tue, Jan 27, 2009 at 5:03 PM, Mark Knecht <markknecht@gmail.com> wrote:
>> My dad is interested in some sort of an Internet Radio app for his
>> Gnome desktop. He was thinking of buying a Slingbox but has backed off
>> the idea. For a while we played with iTunes under Wine but that's sort
>> of a mess so I'm looking for something native to Linux.
>
> I don't understand what Slingbox has to do with internet radio. Amarok
> 2 (not gnome) has hundreds of internet radio stations in it...
>
> I think most of them are just mp3 streams, so if you get the URL from
> anywhere out there on the web you should be able to play it with any
> media player I would think. Check out shoutcast.com.

Am I wrong about the product name? It was specifically a stand alone
Internet radio player. It looks like a clock radio almost that sits by
the bed. I'm not finding it on their site now. Wonder if they
discontinued it? Maybe I'm thinking of the wrong company. It used to
show up on the Pandora site but I don't see it there either.

Anyway, I should have stated that he has almost no interest in
listening to music. He wants to listen to news form around the world.
BBC, NPR and whatever he can find.

I was looking at Amarok 2 based on your other thread and that reminded
me about this topic. I didn't want to hijack that thread though.

What keywords are required to get Amarok 2 to build? I'm not clear
what ~*2.0.1.1 means.

Thanks,
Mark

Re: [gentoo-user] Internet radio?

[Paul Hartman]

On Tue, Jan 27, 2009 at 5:41 PM, Mark Knecht <markknecht@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Tue, Jan 27, 2009 at 3:11 PM, Paul Hartman
> <paul.hartman+gentoo@gmail.com> wrote:
>> On Tue, Jan 27, 2009 at 5:03 PM, Mark Knecht <markknecht@gmail.com> wrote:
>>> My dad is interested in some sort of an Internet Radio app for his
>>> Gnome desktop. He was thinking of buying a Slingbox but has backed off
>>> the idea. For a while we played with iTunes under Wine but that's sort
>>> of a mess so I'm looking for something native to Linux.
>>
>> I don't understand what Slingbox has to do with internet radio. Amarok
>> 2 (not gnome) has hundreds of internet radio stations in it...
>>
>> I think most of them are just mp3 streams, so if you get the URL from
>> anywhere out there on the web you should be able to play it with any
>> media player I would think. Check out shoutcast.com.
>
> Am I wrong about the product name? It was specifically a stand alone
> Internet radio player. It looks like a clock radio almost that sits by
> the bed. I'm not finding it on their site now. Wonder if they
> discontinued it? Maybe I'm thinking of the wrong company. It used to
> show up on the Pandora site but I don't see it there either.
>
> Anyway, I should have stated that he has almost no interest in
> listening to music. He wants to listen to news form around the world.
> BBC, NPR and whatever he can find.
>
> I was looking at Amarok 2 based on your other thread and that reminded
> me about this topic. I didn't want to hijack that thread though.
>
> What keywords are required to get Amarok 2 to build? I'm not clear
> what ~*2.0.1.1 means.

Slingbox is for streaming your TV to and remotely controlling it from
a PC or Cell Phone. (I've got one -- doesn't work on Linux, though.
booo)

My dad has one of those portable internet radios, I don't know the
name but it works well and he seems to be pleased with it. (As long as
you're in wifi range)

Re: [gentoo-user] Internet radio?

[Mark Knecht]

On Tue, Jan 27, 2009 at 3:49 PM, Paul Hartman
<paul.hartman+gentoo@gmail.com> wrote:
<SNIP>
>>
>> What keywords are required to get Amarok 2 to build? I'm not clear
>> what ~*2.0.1.1 means.

So from the man page it says that ~* means:

"This  version is "masked by missing keyword", stable on no
architecture, but unstable
              on an alien architecture."

Is there a way for me to build this for an amd64 machine? I tried
portage.keywords with:

media-sound/amarok ~amd64 *~

Do I need something in portage.unmask?

>
> Slingbox is for streaming your TV to and remotely controlling it from
> a PC or Cell Phone. (I've got one -- doesn't work on Linux, though.
> booo)
>
> My dad has one of those portable internet radios, I don't know the
> name but it works well and he seems to be pleased with it. (As long as
> you're in wifi range)
>
>

So is it the same company? I remember it being the same guys. I'm
thinking maybe they dropped the product. No matter. Mostly just
confusion on my part.

Thanks,
Mark

Re: [gentoo-user] Internet radio?

[Kenneth Prugh]

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On Tue, 27 Jan 2009 16:03:41 -0800
Mark Knecht <markknecht@gmail.com> wrote:

> On Tue, Jan 27, 2009 at 3:49 PM, Paul Hartman
> <paul.hartman+gentoo@gmail.com> wrote:
> <SNIP>
> >>
> >> What keywords are required to get Amarok 2 to build? I'm not clear
> >> what ~*2.0.1.1 means.
> 
> So from the man page it says that ~* means:
> 
> "This  version is "masked by missing keyword", stable on no
> architecture, but unstable
>               on an alien architecture."
> 
> Is there a way for me to build this for an amd64 machine? I tried
> portage.keywords with:
> 
> media-sound/amarok ~amd64 *~
> 
> Do I need something in portage.unmask?
> 

Masked by missing keyword requires:

media-sound/amarok **

in package.keywords if I remember correctly

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Re: [gentoo-user] Internet radio?

[Mark Knecht]

On Tue, Jan 27, 2009 at 4:09 PM, Kenneth Prugh <ken69267@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Tue, 27 Jan 2009 16:03:41 -0800
> Mark Knecht <markknecht@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> On Tue, Jan 27, 2009 at 3:49 PM, Paul Hartman
>> <paul.hartman+gentoo@gmail.com> wrote:
>> <SNIP>
>> >>
>> >> What keywords are required to get Amarok 2 to build? I'm not clear
>> >> what ~*2.0.1.1 means.
>>
>> So from the man page it says that ~* means:
>>
>> "This  version is "masked by missing keyword", stable on no
>> architecture, but unstable
>>               on an alien architecture."
>>
>> Is there a way for me to build this for an amd64 machine? I tried
>> portage.keywords with:
>>
>> media-sound/amarok ~amd64 *~
>>
>> Do I need something in portage.unmask?
>>
>
> Masked by missing keyword requires:
>
> media-sound/amarok **
>
> in package.keywords if I remember correctly
>

Thanks. That does seem to wake things up.

Not sure now if I want to do this. It's forcing me to unmask lots of
KDE-4 packages and also to rebuild mysql with an 'embedded' flag. I
seem to remember something about that causing problems for mythtv. Not
sure.

Thanks,
Mark

Re: [gentoo-user] Internet radio?

[Mark Knecht]

On Tue, Jan 27, 2009 at 4:21 PM, Mark Knecht <markknecht@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Tue, Jan 27, 2009 at 4:09 PM, Kenneth Prugh <ken69267@gmail.com> wrote:
>> On Tue, 27 Jan 2009 16:03:41 -0800
>> Mark Knecht <markknecht@gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>> On Tue, Jan 27, 2009 at 3:49 PM, Paul Hartman
>>> <paul.hartman+gentoo@gmail.com> wrote:
>>> <SNIP>
>>> >>
>>> >> What keywords are required to get Amarok 2 to build? I'm not clear
>>> >> what ~*2.0.1.1 means.
>>>
>>> So from the man page it says that ~* means:
>>>
>>> "This  version is "masked by missing keyword", stable on no
>>> architecture, but unstable
>>>               on an alien architecture."
>>>
>>> Is there a way for me to build this for an amd64 machine? I tried
>>> portage.keywords with:
>>>
>>> media-sound/amarok ~amd64 *~
>>>
>>> Do I need something in portage.unmask?
>>>
>>
>> Masked by missing keyword requires:
>>
>> media-sound/amarok **
>>
>> in package.keywords if I remember correctly
>>
>
> Thanks. That does seem to wake things up.
>
> Not sure now if I want to do this. It's forcing me to unmask lots of
> KDE-4 packages and also to rebuild mysql with an 'embedded' flag. I
> seem to remember something about that causing problems for mythtv. Not
> sure.
>
> Thanks,
> Mark
>

I give up. I'm at 17 packages I have to unmask and I don't know how to
get portage to give me the list of all packages that have to be
unmasked. This jsut goes on and on, one package at a time.

I think it's not reasonable for me to build this at this time.

Thanks for your help,
Mark

media-sound/amarok ~amd64 **
>=kde-base/plasma-workspace-4.1 ~amd64
>=kde-base/kdepimlibs-3.1 ~amd64
>=kde-base/kdelibs-4.1 ~amd64
>=dev-util/cmake-2.6.2 ~amd64
>=app-misc/strigi-0.5.7 ~amd64
dev-libs/soprano ~amd64
>=kde-base/kdebase-data-4.1 ~amd64
>=kde-base/qimageblitz-0.0.4 ~amd64
>=media-sound/phonon-4.2.0 ~amd64
>=kde-base/automoc-0.9.87 ~amd64
app-office/akonadi-server ~amd64
>=kde-base/libkworkspace-4.1.4 ~amd64
>=kde-base/soliduiserver-4.1.4 ~amd64
>=kde-base/libtaskmanager-4.1.4 ~amd64
>=kde-base/libplasma-4.1.4 ~amd64
>=kde-base/kde-menu-icons-4.1.4 ~amd64

[gentoo-user] Re: Internet radio?

[Grant Edwards]

On 2009-01-28, Mark Knecht <markknecht@gmail.com> wrote:

> I give up. I'm at 17 packages I have to unmask and I don't
> know how to get portage to give me the list of all packages
> that have to be unmasked. This jsut goes on and on, one
> package at a time.

Yup, that's pretty annoying.  I've been through that exercise a
couple times: running an emerge 20-30 times -- each time
getting one more package name to unmask.  Each time thinking
that there must be some magic equery or emerge incantation that
will give me the whole list, but there can't be _that_ many more
packges left, so I'll just run emerge one more time...

-- 
Grant

Re: [gentoo-user] Internet radio?

[Neil Bothwick]

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On Tue, 27 Jan 2009 16:30:38 -0800, Mark Knecht wrote:

> I give up. I'm at 17 packages I have to unmask and I don't know how to
> get portage to give me the list of all packages that have to be
> unmasked.

emerge autounmask.


-- 
Neil Bothwick

Never ask a geek why, just nod your head and slowly back away

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Re: [gentoo-user] Internet radio?

[Paul Hartman]

On Tue, Jan 27, 2009 at 6:47 PM, Neil Bothwick <neil@digimed.co.uk> wrote:
> On Tue, 27 Jan 2009 16:30:38 -0800, Mark Knecht wrote:
>
>> I give up. I'm at 17 packages I have to unmask and I don't know how to
>> get portage to give me the list of all packages that have to be
>> unmasked.
>
> emerge autounmask.

seconded, autounmask is the best invention since electricity :)

Re: [gentoo-user] Internet radio?

[Mark Knecht]

On Tue, Jan 27, 2009 at 5:38 PM, Paul Hartman
<paul.hartman+gentoo@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Tue, Jan 27, 2009 at 6:47 PM, Neil Bothwick <neil@digimed.co.uk> wrote:
>> On Tue, 27 Jan 2009 16:30:38 -0800, Mark Knecht wrote:
>>
>>> I give up. I'm at 17 packages I have to unmask and I don't know how to
>>> get portage to give me the list of all packages that have to be
>>> unmasked.
>>
>> emerge autounmask.
>
> seconded, autounmask is the best invention since electricity :)
>
>

Yeah - once I figured out what it was doing it was a perfect solution.
I ended up with 31 packages added to package.keywords and 12 to
package.unmask. Big time saver.

The one thing I'm not liking about it was it is that it created
/etc/portagexs which now stops me from bash auto-completing my tab
commands the way I'm used to doing it for all these years. A trade
off...

thanks,
Mark

Re: [gentoo-user] Internet radio?

[Neil Bothwick]

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On Tue, 27 Jan 2009 17:51:23 -0800, Mark Knecht wrote:

> The one thing I'm not liking about it was it is that it created
> /etc/portagexs which now stops me from bash auto-completing my tab
> commands the way I'm used to doing it for all these years. A trade
> off...

That's fixed in the latest PortageXS, which autounmask uses. It now keeps
its configs in /etc/pxs.


-- 
Neil Bothwick

"An investment in knowledge always pays the best interest." - Benjamin
Franklin

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Re: [gentoo-user] Internet radio?

[Joshua D Doll]

Mark Knecht wrote:
> On Tue, Jan 27, 2009 at 4:21 PM, Mark Knecht <markknecht@gmail.com> wrote:
>   
>> On Tue, Jan 27, 2009 at 4:09 PM, Kenneth Prugh <ken69267@gmail.com> wrote:
>>     
>>> On Tue, 27 Jan 2009 16:03:41 -0800
>>> Mark Knecht <markknecht@gmail.com> wrote:
>>>
>>>       
>>>> On Tue, Jan 27, 2009 at 3:49 PM, Paul Hartman
>>>> <paul.hartman+gentoo@gmail.com> wrote:
>>>> <SNIP>
>>>>         
>>>>>> What keywords are required to get Amarok 2 to build? I'm not clear
>>>>>> what ~*2.0.1.1 means.
>>>>>>             
>>>> So from the man page it says that ~* means:
>>>>
>>>> "This  version is "masked by missing keyword", stable on no
>>>> architecture, but unstable
>>>>               on an alien architecture."
>>>>
>>>> Is there a way for me to build this for an amd64 machine? I tried
>>>> portage.keywords with:
>>>>
>>>> media-sound/amarok ~amd64 *~
>>>>
>>>> Do I need something in portage.unmask?
>>>>
>>>>         
>>> Masked by missing keyword requires:
>>>
>>> media-sound/amarok **
>>>
>>> in package.keywords if I remember correctly
>>>
>>>       
>> Thanks. That does seem to wake things up.
>>
>> Not sure now if I want to do this. It's forcing me to unmask lots of
>> KDE-4 packages and also to rebuild mysql with an 'embedded' flag. I
>> seem to remember something about that causing problems for mythtv. Not
>> sure.
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Mark
>>
>>     
>
> I give up. I'm at 17 packages I have to unmask and I don't know how to
> get portage to give me the list of all packages that have to be
> unmasked. This jsut goes on and on, one package at a time.
>
> I think it's not reasonable for me to build this at this time.
>
> Thanks for your help,
> Mark
>
> media-sound/amarok ~amd64 **
>   
>> =kde-base/plasma-workspace-4.1 ~amd64
>> =kde-base/kdepimlibs-3.1 ~amd64
>> =kde-base/kdelibs-4.1 ~amd64
>> =dev-util/cmake-2.6.2 ~amd64
>> =app-misc/strigi-0.5.7 ~amd64
>>     
> dev-libs/soprano ~amd64
>   
>> =kde-base/kdebase-data-4.1 ~amd64
>> =kde-base/qimageblitz-0.0.4 ~amd64
>> =media-sound/phonon-4.2.0 ~amd64
>> =kde-base/automoc-0.9.87 ~amd64
>>     
> app-office/akonadi-server ~amd64
>   
>> =kde-base/libkworkspace-4.1.4 ~amd64
>> =kde-base/soliduiserver-4.1.4 ~amd64
>> =kde-base/libtaskmanager-4.1.4 ~amd64
>> =kde-base/libplasma-4.1.4 ~amd64
>> =kde-base/kde-menu-icons-4.1.4 ~amd64
>>     
>
>
>   
ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="~amd64" emerge -p xorg-x11|awk '/ebuild/{print $4 
}'|sed 's/-[0-9].*/ ~amd64/' >> /etc/portage/package.keywords



Replace xorg-x11 with your package and ~amd64 with the keyword for the 
package you are trying to unmask.

--Joshua Doll

Re: [gentoo-user] Internet radio?

[Neil Bothwick]

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On Tue, 27 Jan 2009 16:03:41 -0800, Mark Knecht wrote:

> > My dad has one of those portable internet radios, I don't know the
> > name but it works well and he seems to be pleased with it. (As long as
> > you're in wifi range)

> So is it the same company? I remember it being the same guys. I'm
> thinking maybe they dropped the product.

Several companies make Internet/Wi-Fi enabled radios. Google for wifi
internet radio.


-- 
Neil Bothwick

I am McCoy of Borg. He's assimilated, Jim!

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Re: [gentoo-user] Internet radio?

[Mark Knecht]

On Tue, Jan 27, 2009 at 4:55 PM, Neil Bothwick <neil@digimed.co.uk> wrote:
> On Tue, 27 Jan 2009 16:03:41 -0800, Mark Knecht wrote:
>
>> > My dad has one of those portable internet radios, I don't know the
>> > name but it works well and he seems to be pleased with it. (As long as
>> > you're in wifi range)
>
>> So is it the same company? I remember it being the same guys. I'm
>> thinking maybe they dropped the product.
>
> Several companies make Internet/Wi-Fi enabled radios. Google for wifi
> internet radio.
>
>
> --
> Neil Bothwick

Thanks. That shows it was Roku I was thinking of and not SlingMedia.

Roku make the SoundBridge Radio. I guess what I'd be looking for in
portage is something similar in software. Amarok 2 looks interesting.
MAybe the autounmerge will give me a better idea what I'm up against
to build it.

Thanks,
Mark

Re: [gentoo-user] Internet radio?

[Nick Cunningham]

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2009/1/27 Mark Knecht <markknecht@gmail.com>

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

- Nick

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Re: [gentoo-user] Internet radio?

[Mark Knecht]

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

Thanks. I'm going to build it on ~x86 instead.

cheers,
Mark

Re: [gentoo-user] Internet radio?

[Paul Hartman]

On Tue, Jan 27, 2009 at 7:17 PM, Nick Cunningham <nick@monkeydust.net> wrote:
>
>
> 2009/1/27 Mark Knecht <markknecht@gmail.com>
>>
>> On Tue, Jan 27, 2009 at 3:11 PM, Paul Hartman
>> <paul.hartman+gentoo@gmail.com> wrote:
>> > On Tue, Jan 27, 2009 at 5:03 PM, Mark Knecht <markknecht@gmail.com>
>> > wrote:
>> >> My dad is interested in some sort of an Internet Radio app for his
>> >> Gnome desktop. He was thinking of buying a Slingbox but has backed off
>> >> the idea. For a while we played with iTunes under Wine but that's sort
>> >> of a mess so I'm looking for something native to Linux.
>> >
>> > I don't understand what Slingbox has to do with internet radio. Amarok
>> > 2 (not gnome) has hundreds of internet radio stations in it...
>> >
>> > I think most of them are just mp3 streams, so if you get the URL from
>> > anywhere out there on the web you should be able to play it with any
>> > media player I would think. Check out shoutcast.com.
>>
>> Am I wrong about the product name? It was specifically a stand alone
>> Internet radio player. It looks like a clock radio almost that sits by
>> the bed. I'm not finding it on their site now. Wonder if they
>> discontinued it? Maybe I'm thinking of the wrong company. It used to
>> show up on the Pandora site but I don't see it there either.
>>
>> Anyway, I should have stated that he has almost no interest in
>> listening to music. He wants to listen to news form around the world.
>> BBC, NPR and whatever he can find.
>>
>> I was looking at Amarok 2 based on your other thread and that reminded
>> me about this topic. I didn't want to hijack that thread though.
>>
>> What keywords are required to get Amarok 2 to build? I'm not clear
>> what ~*2.0.1.1 means.
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Mark
>>
>
> Be aware that amarok2 is currently broken on amd64 (hence the mask) due to
> problems with mysql (which it now requires by default). If you look back in
> the archives there have been threads explaining how to work around it and
> get mysql working so amarok2 builds ok.
>
> - Nick
>

I'm using the live build (amarok-9999 from kde-testing overlay) as for
the past week or two, it built & works (with the previously mentioned
quirks) on my ~amd64 with kde 4.2 and mysql built with PIC as
described in the other thread.

Re: [gentoo-user] Internet radio?

[Peter Humphrey]

On Tuesday 27 January 2009 23:41:32 Mark Knecht wrote:

> I should have stated that he has almost no interest in listening to music.
> He wants to listen to news form around the world. BBC, NPR and whatever he
> can find. 

I don't know whether the BBC streams in mp3 or just allows you to download 
things in that format. Its main streaming service uses the REAL protocol 
these days.

-- 
Rgds
Peter

Re: [gentoo-user] Internet radio?

[Stroller]

On 28 Jan 2009, at 12:45, Peter Humphrey wrote:

> On Tuesday 27 January 2009 23:41:32 Mark Knecht wrote:
>
>> I should have stated that he has almost no interest in listening to  
>> music.
>> He wants to listen to news form around the world. BBC, NPR and  
>> whatever he
>> can find.
>
> I don't know whether the BBC streams in mp3 or just allows you to  
> download
> things in that format. Its main streaming service uses the REAL  
> protocol
> these days.

Yes, it's Real if you go to http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio1/ and click on  
the "Listen Live" button.

I experimented with saving these with mplayer recently, and I believe  
that you may need to use its --playlist option in order for the URLs  
to work right. However I was successfully able to cancel the recording  
and resume using the same URL, which makes me think one could use cron  
to record shows on schedule.

The BBC iPlayer now offers radio, too, and I am given to understand  
that its radio shows are in decent (high?) quality MP3 format. You can  
download iPlayer shows using the iplayer-dl script <http://www.google.com/search?q=+iplayer-dl 
 > but I think you need to know the ID number of the show first, which  
you need to get from the iPlayer website. So this may not be so good  
for casual listening (official iPlayer may be good for that).

If anyone knows of an overlay which tracks iplayer-dl, BTW, please let  
me know.

Stroller.

Re: [gentoo-user] Internet radio?

[Mick]

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On Wednesday 28 January 2009, Stroller wrote:

> If anyone knows of an overlay which tracks iplayer-dl, BTW, please let
> me know.

I don't know of an overlay and have not used iplayer-dl for some months now.  
I found the perl script of get-iplayer with its different options slicker for 
my needs:

http://linuxcentre.net/getiplayer/
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Regards,
Mick

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[gentoo-user] iplayer-dl / get-iplayer Was: Re: Internet radio?

[Stroller]

On 30 Jan 2009, at 19:38, Mick wrote:

> On Wednesday 28 January 2009, Stroller wrote:
>
>> If anyone knows of an overlay which tracks iplayer-dl, BTW, please  
>> let
>> me know.
>
> I don't know of an overlay and have not used iplayer-dl for some  
> months now.
> I found the perl script of get-iplayer with its different options  
> slicker for
> my needs:
>
> http://linuxcentre.net/getiplayer/

Oooh! That does look better! I want to automate download of shows, so  
that they just appear on my server automagically & I don't have to  
think about getting them. There are even ebuilds for get-iplayer!

http://ewanm89.co.uk/2009/01/01/ewanm89-overlay/
http://ewanm89.co.uk/ebuilds/media-video/get_iplayer/

Stroller.

Re: [gentoo-user] iplayer-dl / get-iplayer Was: Re: Internet radio?

[Mick]

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On Friday 30 January 2009, Stroller wrote:
> On 30 Jan 2009, at 19:38, Mick wrote:
> > On Wednesday 28 January 2009, Stroller wrote:
> >> If anyone knows of an overlay which tracks iplayer-dl, BTW, please
> >> let
> >> me know.
> >
> > I don't know of an overlay and have not used iplayer-dl for some
> > months now.
> > I found the perl script of get-iplayer with its different options
> > slicker for
> > my needs:
> >
> > http://linuxcentre.net/getiplayer/
>
> Oooh! That does look better! I want to automate download of shows, so
> that they just appear on my server automagically & I don't have to
> think about getting them. There are even ebuilds for get-iplayer!
>
> http://ewanm89.co.uk/2009/01/01/ewanm89-overlay/
> http://ewanm89.co.uk/ebuilds/media-video/get_iplayer/

Has anyone found an ebuild for rtmpdump perhaps?  

http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=248826

Now get-iplayer uses rtmpdump to download HD flash videos that news websites 
typically use.

Is it acceptable to ask for an ebuild in gentoo bugzilla?
-- 
Regards,
Mick

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