next »

[Ben]

Someone, somewhere, recommended www.pandora.com (just go to it from Browser). As long as you have flash installed, it will play just fine. You get to make your playlists. It asks you to register (free), and aside from one welcome e-mail, I've received zero junk mail from them. So I like it !

Personally, I think its ridiculous to have to register just to listen to some internet radio when you can actually doing it without any kind of registration.

You don't have to register to use Pandora, you just need someone to give you a link to their personal playlist.

If you register with Pandora, you can create your own playlists and as you listen you can vote thumbs up or thumbs down to fine-tune its future choices (Pandora works by asking you for a bunch of songs you like, and then it starts playing songs it thinks you'll like).

[sambot]

Can you post the link for the internet radio you want to listen. I am sure there this is a way around. Any way, post the link and I 'll what I can do.

I want to listen to cbc. cbc.ca   

 It's not do-able. They unkindly require you to have windows media player. Just wanted to hear news broadcasts, etc from home.

Pandora is unavailable in Canada.

Sighhhhh

[jenandcats]

Sambot. You can probably use MPlayer (and maybe totem ?). Here is the info from www.cbc.ca/listen. Good luck ! Let us know if it works. I haven't installed MPlayer, but may try it with Totem.

For Unix users:

Our CBC radio streams are compatible with Unix
We tested our streams using the Mplayer plugin version 2.66 on:
- Gentoo Linux 1.5.1
- FreeBSD 5.x

Download the Mplayer plugin version 2.66

Mplayer tends to take longer to connect and buffer the stream
than Windows Media player, so please be patient.

To reduce the buffering time in mplayer, update /etc/mplayerplug-in.conf by uncommenting the following line:

cachesize=256

Xine is another alternative player that works for Linux/UNIX as well:

Find out more information about Xine on their website

Update: I didn't get anywhere with Totem for the windows player streams, but did notice, and then successfully play with Totem, the two Ogg-Vorbis urls for Radio One and Two. Maybe not as local as you'd like, but still Canada.

[jt]

Sambot. You can probably use MPlayer (and maybe totem ?). Here is the info from www.cbc.ca/listen. Good luck ! Let us know if it works. I haven't installed MPlayer, but may try it with Totem.

MPlayer will do it.  There are instructions for installing it on the XO at:
http://olpcnews.com/forum/index.php?topic=863.0


I am not entirely sure that this is the most efficient approach -- someone please tell me that there is an easier way -- but to listen to CBC on my XO, I first went to http://www.cbc.ca/listen/# on my regular PC, selected the link in Is your media player having trouble "locating media", or with "verify path name and file name"? Go directly to our full list of streaming URLs.

From the list that popped-up, I selected the Yellowknife-Low stream, saved the link to my PC, opened the .asx file in a text editor and identified the URL contained within it.

Then, back on the XO, in Terminal, I typed:
cd ~ && ./mplayer -playlist http://mfile2.akamai.com/9617/live/reflector:37892.asx?bkup=37893
(the http://... part is the URL from the .asx file)

And now I am listening to CBC Radio One Yellowknife.   

[sambot]

jt,

When next I'm at the pc, I'll try your suggestion.I'm looking for cbc in edmonton.

[samphilomath]

Sambot. You can probably use MPlayer (and maybe totem ?). Here is the info from www.cbc.ca/listen. Good luck ! Let us know if it works. I haven't installed MPlayer, but may try it with Totem.

MPlayer will do it.  There are instructions for installing it on the XO at:
http://olpcnews.com/forum/index.php?topic=863.0


I am not entirely sure that this is the most efficient approach -- someone please tell me that there is an easier way -- but to listen to CBC on my XO, I first went to http://www.cbc.ca/listen/# on my regular PC, selected the link in Is your media player having trouble "locating media", or with "verify path name and file name"? Go directly to our full list of streaming URLs.

From the list that popped-up, I selected the Yellowknife-Low stream, saved the link to my PC, opened the .asx file in a text editor and identified the URL contained within it.

Then, back on the XO, in Terminal, I typed:
cd ~ && ./mplayer -playlist http://mfile2.akamai.com/9617/live/reflector:37892.asx?bkup=37893
(the http://... part is the URL from the .asx file)

And now I am listening to CBC Radio One Yellowknife.   

Just tested your link on VLC, and it works.

[Nick Tindall]

davewa, I don't know if you're still interested, but if you're willing to install (only) mplayer, then at least one of your stations, KAPA, is easy. In Terminal (or hit Ctrl-Alt-F2(aka "Group") and login as root), type:

mplayer http://wmc1.liquidcompass.cc/KAPA

WCRB uses a Flash player (not just a Flash intro), and I've never figured out how to get any details out of Flash.

Nick

[anna]

This is for you, sambot!

_{#!/bin/bash
#Thanks to kevix@nyc for this great script!
URL=$(wget -q -O /dev/stdout http://www.cbc.ca/livemedia/cbcr1-edmonton.asx|grep http|cut -d\" -f2)
mplayer -playlist $URL}

Save as filename (or whatever - replace "filename" with your own), then

chmod 755 filename
./filename

It takes a few seconds to buffer, so be patient.

[sambot]

thanks anna. You and kev are the best!