listening to the radio over the net 1

[SaltyDuke]

hello

i am looking for a way to listen to the radio over the internet. i have all the equipment in place (connection, pc, soundcard, SuSE Linux 7.3 etc)...

all i need is an audio player (i.e. a Linux equivalent of Real Palyer or something like that...)

can anyone recommend one for me???

thanx in advance

 

[RhythmAce]

I think you can get a linux version of real player here:

http://forms.real.com/real/player/unix/unix.html?src=111102realhome_2

 

[SaltyDuke]

thanx for the link RhythmAce!

problem, though... i went to that site and downloaded a .bin file. however, i've absolutely no experience with this type of file --i've only ever installed tarballs and RPMs.

i followed the instructions on the site and made it exectuable but it just won't run. it tells me it cannot execute a binary file. do i have to compile it or something?

 

[flugh]

I just did this yesterday. Let's call the file you downloaded "realplayer.bin", because the real name is just too long ;-)

mv realplayer.bin /tmp
cd /tmp
chmod u+x realplayer.bin
./realplayer.bin

Make sure you choose an installation path that you can write to (like your home directory if you aren't installing as root)

 

[flugh]

I forgot to mention the better part of my post!

Install xmms (

http://www.xmms.org),

and listen to Shoutcast streams (

http://www.shoutcast.com/waradio.phtml

is a favorite of mine). May need to associate xmms with .scpl files to have seamless usage of the links on the page.

 

[SaltyDuke]

thanx a lot flugh!!

your help is much appreciated

one more quick question: whereabouts is the soundcard located on my system (i.e. floppy drive = /dev/fd0 etc.). i have suddenly encountered soundcard problems!!!!

thanx again for your help people