Music players, Video players & Internet radio...suggestions please.

[LithiumKid1976]

Hi all.
ive spent the last few hours trying to sort out a music players, video players and internet radio players for my fedora core 8 machine. it has'nt been a happy experience... but im hoping some one will show me the way..

basically i use my vista machine to listen to itunes, play movies and listen to internet radio.

i was trying to set up fedora to do the same.

1)i know itunes isnt available for linux, but i also do not want to convert the files 6000+ itunes tracks from m4a to mp3... is there a music player that will play the .m4a files for me?

2)a lot of the email attachments i receive are in the .mov .avi .wmv format. can anyone suggest a player that will play theses?

3) finally. i was trying to listen to some internet radio also. the sites i was hoping to listen to require New iTunes and Real Player MP3 Stream & New Windows Media MP3 Stream
again im looking for a suggestion to get around this problem.. .

so if anyone has any suggestions or pointers for me, id appreciate it...

Damien

[s.v.g.]

1) RhythmBox will play m4a (without DRM) as long as these extras are installed (yum install each of these):

rhythmbox
gstreamer
gstreamer-plugins-bad
gstreamer-plugins-bad-extras
gstreamer-plugins-base
gstreamer-plugins-good
gstreamer-plugins-pulse
gstreamer-plugins-ugly

[s.v.g.]

2) I would recommend VLC player. Post #4 should help you aswell.

3) Try Last FM or Pandora

[quik69]

for #3 could you list a few of the sites you want streaming audio from, sometimes they require a bit of tweaking to get ff to open the right plugin or external application.
nowadays linux can handle pretty much anything i throw at it multimedia wise proving the proper codecs are installed.

[LithiumKid1976]

Hi Guys.
thanks for your suggestions.

the main radio station im trying to listen to is http://www.todayfm.com/article.asp?id=15131

also s.v.g. i installed everything you listed there. but i get the following errors when trying torun rhythembox

Couldnt load audio cd, Rhythmbox couldn't access the CD.
and it seems to be paused constantly.

Any ideas?

Regards
Damien (happy new year also)

[quik69]

http://www.todayfm.com/article.asp?id=15131

works for me with the mplayer plug in just click on the windows media player mp3 steam link

do you have mplayer and the codecs installed? check out fedorafaq or mjmwired for instructions

[LithiumKid1976]

Hi guys,
thanks for your help, im still getting errors though, i tried to install all the libraries from s.v.g's post, but got errors with the following errors from the termial, all the others install ok, these 3 give the same error though..
----------------------------------------------------------------
No package gstreamer-plugins-bad available.
Nothing to do

No package gstreamer-plugins-bad-extras available.
Nothing to do

No package gstreamer-plugins-ugly available.
Nothing to do
---------------------------------------------------------------------------

Also when i try to play any tracks i get
"A text/html decoder plugin is required to play this stream, but not installed." and its still constanly paused

ill try a different option, but if any one has suggestion id appreaciate it.

thanks
Damien

[jrummy27]

For the gstreamer ugly/bad packages you need the livna repository. Go to http://rpm.livna.org/rlowiki/ and install or download the "Fedora 8 Repository RPM". Then try installing the gstreamer packages again with yum

[forkbomb]

Originally Posted by quik69

works for me with the mplayer plug in just click on the windows media player mp3 steam link

do you have mplayer and the codecs installed? check out fedorafaq or mjmwired for instructions

Hmm. Mplayer didn't work for me in trying to play the WMP stream, but maybe I'm missing some codecs. But I was able to play the other stream ("New iTunes and Real Player MP3 Stream") with VLC.

EDIT:
To enable Livna, just do:

rpm -ivh http://rpm.livna.org/livna-release-8.rpm

[LithiumKid1976]

Hi guys,
thats for posts and suggestions.

i found banshee today, it imported all the itunes music, and play them, so i think ill stick with that at the moment...

i'll keep looking at the other options for internet radio and video players....

thanks for all your help