On Wed, 2005-05-04 at 20:30 -0400, Chris Gramer wrote: > Rather than trying to slog through getting amaroK running, I'll just > ask: What package do you all recommend for listening to streaming > radio on FC3? And is that package going to have a huge list of > dependencies to satisfy, like a codec for every type of audio stream I > want to play, libraries for various fonts and album art display, etc., > etc.? Is there a reason everything has to be so modular in Linux? > Can't an audio player have everything it needs in its own > package/archive? > > Anyway, sorry for ranting here. And thanks for any help with streaming > audio on FC3! :-) I really really want to be able to switch over to > Linux full-time, but there are only two things holding me back: > > 1. Multimedia (i.e. music and video, and the streaming variety of them) > 2. Games > > Not much can be done about the games, but certainly multimedia could be > better and easier in Linux. I've played streaming radio with RealPlayer > in FC3, but it's choppy and doesn't sound very good. (I hate RealPlayer > in general, even in Windows.) Anyway, thanks again. > streamtuner from dag is a nice way to point xmms at streaming radio stations. i use it all the time to listen to old time radio shows. codecs for xmms are readily available for almost any format. hth. john
