amaroK won't play live radio streams! - Page 2

taltonho · #16 7th May 2006, 03:14 AM

Solved the issue in amarok not playing samba shares. Had to change the gstreamer engine to the xine by installing the xine package and also amarok-extras-nonfree.i386 1.4-0.3.beta3.lvn5 available from ftp://fr2.rpmfind.net/linux/livna/fedora/5/i386/. Can now browse to networked winxp box and play mp3s. Still not up to speed on radio streams as of yet.

Vlok · #17 7th May 2006, 03:07 PM

I am using beta3 and having the same problem.
I have no firewall enabled. Tried to reinstall gstreamer - no effect.

jdogzilla · #18 11th May 2006, 05:09 AM

Anybody have a solution to this ... amarok is still not playing radio streams or podcasts for me

scotta3234 · #19 11th May 2006, 05:15 AM

Hmm... so switching back to beta2 didn't work? This is really dissapointing that so many people are having this problem... hopefully somebody can chime in here and suggest something else.

PseudoNym · #20 11th May 2006, 06:33 PM

I've had issues with amarok in FC5 as well. To be able to play music files located in a shared directory on an XP box I have had to mount the share in the /mnt/ directory. I'm still new to linux and am point and click type user .. so to mount the samba share I ended up using smb4k to mount the share (note I had to be running smb4k as root to get the smb share to mount in the /mnt/ directoy). Still, if I reboot the system the samba share is finiky about mounting .. sometimes it will sometimes it wont. Using Xine as the engine also solved the problem of amarok not playing streams off the net.

At this point the problem I am having with amarok is the "Global Shorcuts" have stopped working when using the default settings win+whatever key. Anyone else run into this problem with the global shortcuts and if so have a solution?

PseudoNym · #21 11th May 2006, 07:25 PM

Well, I found a solution to the Win key not working for the default global shortcuts ... In case anyone else runs into the same problem here is what I had to do to fix it.

open /etc/X11/Xmodmap and add the following line:

mod4 = Super_L

sej7278 · #22 12th May 2006, 09:05 AM

add another "it dunt work boss" for me, fc5.

could it be a gstreamer issue?

Vlok · #23 12th May 2006, 11:21 AM

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I think that it is gstreamer issue, because

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Originally Posted by PseudoNym

Using Xine as the engine also solved the problem of amarok not playing streams off the net.

But what can be done with gstreamer to solve the problem i don't know.

I've tryed to use xine myself - no effect, so it is amarok's problem

scotta3234 · #24 21st May 2006, 04:55 AM

Alright so this is still troubling me. A few have suggested using the xine engine but even when i install the xine libraries amarok still doesn't give me the option to use the xine engine. Perhaps I need a little further clarification.

grndplane · #25 21st May 2006, 02:01 PM

Try xinetd I think its at dries or livna. After I used Yumex to get it I had the Xine engine choice in Amarok. Yes it has been more stable and also has a little better sound.

scotta3234 · #26 21st May 2006, 05:18 PM

that didn't work. The description of that package didn't seem like it was the right one either.

scotta3234 · #27 21st May 2006, 05:22 PM

Alright well i fixed that by downloading amarok-extras-nonfree from livna and now the xine engine appears. let's see if this works!!!

scotta3234 · #28 21st May 2006, 05:31 PM

[SOLVED] Definitely worked if you install the xine libraries and the amarok-extras-nonfree rpm from livna. That way you'll be able to use the xine engine in amarok. Sound quality is perfect. Ahh... the sweet sound of success.

grndplane · #29 22nd May 2006, 08:55 PM

I did install those packages, but I thought it was the xinetd that did it. Oh well I guess when in doubt, get it all. Glad it worked.

spiderx · #30 3rd July 2006, 11:24 PM

I tried all of the above but still doesn't work