Re: [gentoo-user] Internet radio?

[Paul Hartman <paul.hartman+gentoo@gmail.com>]

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.