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[burdell]

This one didn't work for me.  The yum install (as su) went on for a long time, looking like it was installing everything in the world.  Then it started producing "failure to allocate memory" errors and eventually froze up all together.

This can happen if you are running other activities in the background. When you are installing packages on the XO,it's a good idea to close everything else. Otherwise a partially installed package can get messy (like not rmeoving itself properly).

Albert

[BruceM]

This one didn't work for me.  The yum install (as su) went on for a long time, looking like it was installing everything in the world.  Then it started producing "failure to allocate memory" errors and eventually froze up all together.

This can happen if you are running other activities in the background. When you are installing packages on the XO,it's a good idea to close everything else. Otherwise a partially installed package can get messy (like not rmeoving itself properly).

Albert

Thanks, Albert, that seemed to fix the installation problem.  Streamtuner seems to be working now, although still not playing music; I don't think I have the correct applications installed or connected up to it.  (Audacious is installed, but I think everything I've tried needs realplay for m3u and realaudio streams.)

Thanks,
Bruce

[GregYohn]

Hi!

Wrong again!

I tried Pandora on my XO, when before I tried it on my PC.

Pandora basically played a few moments and then died! I think it uses to much memory running its Flash program. I did notice that it was using alot of resources on my PC, but the XO can not operate with it, since I need more than Pandora to be used.

[Sam J.]

I installed RealPlayer 10 GOLD and it worked well.  I am listening WCPE now 
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I followed tamichan's instructions for installing RealPlayer and alsa-oss.
But in attempting to run RealPlayer I get this message:

error while loading shared labraries: libstdc++.so.5:
cannot open shared object file...

If anyone can suggest how to overcome this problem I'd appreciate it.

[peterparker55]

I found a fix for the "error while loading shared libraries: libstdc++.so.5:" error.

I ran

yum install libstdc++-33

to fix this.

The real problem as I see it is that the RealPlayer10GOLD.rpm package wasn't properly created to require the libstdc++ package as a dependency. (It's also not GPG signed, but that's another less important issue).

[SteveH]

I've been using the Sonata activity to listen to Internet radio like MagnaTune. No problems. I just switch to the streams tab, right click on the page and select New to add a new stream.

[GregYohn]

Hola!

Pandora.com does not work in Cali, Colombia! 

[fyoder]

I've been using the Sonata activity to listen to Internet radio like MagnaTune. No problems. I just switch to the streams tab, right click on the page and select New to add a new stream.

Magnatune is very cool.  I like their motto "We are not evil".  I got their web player to work by running the flash install script at http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Flash_Player .  Currently listening to http://magnatune.com/artists/albums/monks-orthodox/
which is some really beautiful Russian Orthodox choral music with rich, lush harmonies, so beautiful it could almost turn an atheist to Christianity.  But not if he or she was listening to it through the built in XO speakers!

I've got a wee usb keyboard, wee wireless mouse, have ordered a slim dvd burner, but have nothing with regard to truly portable speakers.  What are others using for speakers to listen to their internet radio?  Or is everyone using headphones?  Because, especially for music, those little built ins are almost painful.

[fyoder]

Pandora.com does not work in Cali, Colombia! 

I believe it's supposed to be limited to the US.  They make the determination based on your ip address, so you might find some useful information if you google pandora.com proxy

For some strange reason one of the big internet providers in my home town appears to be blocked, but the other maybe not, at least not the ip address I have at work.  So I put a proxy on the work machine to stream through from home where I have an account with the blocked ISP.  I'm a terribly naughty hacker, I am.

[GregYohn]

Hola!

Guess it would be nice to have a proxy address. Pandora.com worked while I was in the USA, but I still need to know how to do a proxy address.

Pandora.com does not work in Cali, Colombia! 

I believe it's supposed to be limited to the US.  They make the determination based on your ip address, so you might find some useful information if you google pandora.com proxy

For some strange reason one of the big internet providers in my home town appears to be blocked, but the other maybe not, at least not the ip address I have at work.  So I put a proxy on the work machine to stream through from home where I have an account with the blocked ISP.  I'm a terribly naughty hacker, I am.

[fyoder]

http://franticindustries.com/2007/05/03/how-to-access-pandora-from-outside-the-us/

The page points to where to set things in firefox, and links to some proxies.  In seamonkey the settings are under Edit->Preferences->Advanced->Proxies.  Not sure where they are in opera.

[ashtond33]

I use live365.com when I'm not on my computer. You can play their stations via the web, or via something like xmms

[GregYohn]

Hola!

http://www.finetune.com/ works fine here in Cali, Colombia!!

Pandora.com does not operate here!