On Sunday 21 November 2004 01:38 am, Branimir Vasilic wrote:

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Dunno about streams, I use streamtuner for that usually .. tho I haven't loaded it on my current 9.2 box I can't imagine it wouldn't work okay. As

Actually the amarok rpm for 9.2 is broken and does not play streams. I made an rpm that does play streams but I couldn't get the visualisations to compile:

http://mywebpages.comcast.net/brana7/rpms/amarok-1.1.1-SuSE9.2.i686.r pm

If you don't need visualisations this should do it for you.

  Brana ===========

SuSE has already provided the updated RPMS on their mirrors for amarok which work just fine for streaming. It is true, the version provided in 9.2 is broken for such things, I stayed after the amarok developers for several days about the streaming problem in IRC. I suspect many others did too. ;o) ftp://ftp.gwdg.de/pub/linux/suse/ftp.suse.com/suse/i386/supplementary/KDE/update_for_9.2/ regards, Lee -- --- KMail v1.7.1 --- SuSE Linux Pro v9.2 --- Registered Linux User #225206 "Don't let the fear of striking out keep you from playing the game!"

On Monday 22 November 2004 12:18 am, Branimir Vasilic wrote:

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SuSE has already provided the updated RPMS on their mirrors for amarok which work just fine for streaming. It is true, the version provided

Thanks. Why doesn't this show up on YOU? I have been updating regularly and I didn't see amarok listed.

Brana ============

Because it is not a security update. YOU gets required updates only, I don't believe it's suppose to grab all the KDE updates, which are termed "experimental" usually and only up to the user's discretion to install. Lee -- --- KMail v1.7.1 --- SuSE Linux Pro v9.2 --- Registered Linux User #225206 "Don't let the fear of striking out keep you from playing the game!"

On Monday 22 November 2004 04:56 am, Ford Prefect wrote:

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I stayed after the amarok developers for several days about the streaming problem in IRC. I suspect many others did too. ;o)

Thank you Lee - I am grateful for that! One embarrassing problem in 9.2 fixed, at least.

Matthew ===========

Well, you can't blame 9.2 for that one! It was a bug in the program, Amarok, which has been there for several versions now. It's a good program and there was a lot of chatter on the IRC about that bug, but I guess the developers felt other things took precedence over it. :o) Lee -- --- KMail v1.7.1 --- SuSE Linux Pro v9.2 --- Registered Linux User #225206 "Don't let the fear of striking out keep you from playing the game!"

Ford Prefect wrote:

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Well, you can't blame 9.2 for that one!

Humph - I've got to find someone to blame! (o:

Seriously, though, someone made the decision to point Konqueror at AmaroK instead of XMMS for that type of file. XMMS works and AmaroK (as supplied in 9.2) doesn't. Therefore, you "upgrade" to 9.2 and streamed audio no longer works.

Then the decision was most likely made by the KDE people. Much of the complaints about SuSE 9.2 seem to be complaints about the new kernel or the upgraded KDE that gets installed. jalal -- GPG fingerprint = 3D45 5509 D380 26A4 523E A9D8 A66A 5F38 CA43 BB0E

When I add this url 'yp.shoutcast.com' in the 'add media' text window of Amarok I get this stdoutput: yp.shoutcast.com (?).

When I use the url: yp.shoutcast.com/9306.0.shoutcast-playlist.pls, Amarok says 'the playlist yp.shoutcast.com/9306.0.shoutcast-playlist.pls could not be downloaded'. I still haven't been able to play a stream with Amarok. What am I missing here?

I tired playing this stream and I couldn't either. Since I can play other streams without problem this might be an issue with the url not amarok.

Also the configure dialogue for Konqueror doesn't allow me to pick which application to use to play a stream. Where is this option set?

Settings->Configure Konqueror->File Associations Select x-scpls and add amarok as a player application if it's not there already and get it to the top of the list so that it starts first. Try clicking on the stream after this. It has happend to me that konqueror sometimes ignored this sorting and started a different application than the first one I selected there, it just wouldn't allow the one I picked to be on top. In that case you can just remove all other applications from the list and leave only amarok. Brana

On Sunday 21 November 2004 12:05, Bill Wisse wrote:

On Saturday 20 November 2004 13:11, Susemail wrote:

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I know it's not good form to complain but what makes this really frustrating is that I pointed my safari browser on my Mac at http:// yp.shoutcast.com this morning and it's been playing all day!

I'm stunned that you can listen to shoutcast all day on your mac. I alalong thought that there was something wrong with SC. I cannot connect to 98 % of the stations, used to but not anymore. And when I'm connected it plays ( through XMMS ) for 15-20 seconds and then it stops. It's not buffering but it just goes dead. I must say it does that in Kaffeine as well.

As far as shoutcast on the Mac goes I'm using MacOS 10.3.6 and my Safari, Camino and Opera browsers and iTunes (I just checked). I'm also connected on my 9.1 system through XMMs which was called when I choose a station using Konqueror. It doesn't go dead.

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Xmms shows itself pre-buffering and connecting over and over again but it doesn't play anything.

Sometimes this happens as well , It's very frustrating, after all Multimedia is one of the ( my) main reason to have a computer. I'm using 9.1 -- I agree completely. Jerome

Greetings from /bill at 169 west , 19 south. Disclaimer: Any errors in spelling, tact, or fact are transmission errors."