Having just done a fresh install of FC4 (with subsequent update) to my Thinkpad laptop I moved on to try out the Gnome recommended Music Player, aka Rythmbox. In this sad tale, the first attempt was to have Firefox visit an m3u file on my music server. Things got off to a good start as the first of thousands of songs started playing. Awesome. After the first song ... nothing. Hmmm. I used the very nice little panel applet to select play and the next random song started playing. Then when it was done ... nothing again. Eventually a popup complained about an "unexpected end of stream". Googling turns up no similar behaviors nor any clues as to what's going on. OK, so Rythmbox is not ready for prime time. Back to xmms. xmms handles the m3u as expected. No problems. But I sure like docking the xmms controls into the panel. Imagine my chagrin when I learn that FC4 and docking xmms controls are not happening (please, please tell me I'm wrong and what I missed and how to do it!). Rhythmbox was singularly disappointing for an heir apparent to the Fedora/Gnome Music Player throne. I found it very unintuitive and amazingly short on functionality, not to mention lack of robustness. I have a hunch that my m3u file format is not to Rhythmbox's liking but I'll be damned if I can figure out what it is looking for. Feel free to reference or suggest the format that it expects for streaming songs from a music server. Thanks, -pmr
