On Tue, Jan 27, 2009 at 5:41 PM, Mark Knecht <markkne...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Tue, Jan 27, 2009 at 3:11 PM, Paul Hartman > <paul.hartman+gen...@gmail.com> wrote: >> On Tue, Jan 27, 2009 at 5:03 PM, Mark Knecht <markkne...@gmail.com> wrote: >>> My dad is interested in some sort of an Internet Radio app for his >>> Gnome desktop. He was thinking of buying a Slingbox but has backed off >>> the idea. For a while we played with iTunes under Wine but that's sort >>> of a mess so I'm looking for something native to Linux. >> >> I don't understand what Slingbox has to do with internet radio. Amarok >> 2 (not gnome) has hundreds of internet radio stations in it... >> >> I think most of them are just mp3 streams, so if you get the URL from >> anywhere out there on the web you should be able to play it with any >> media player I would think. Check out shoutcast.com. > > Am I wrong about the product name? It was specifically a stand alone > Internet radio player. It looks like a clock radio almost that sits by > the bed. I'm not finding it on their site now. Wonder if they > discontinued it? Maybe I'm thinking of the wrong company. It used to > show up on the Pandora site but I don't see it there either. > > Anyway, I should have stated that he has almost no interest in > listening to music. He wants to listen to news form around the world. > BBC, NPR and whatever he can find. > > I was looking at Amarok 2 based on your other thread and that reminded > me about this topic. I didn't want to hijack that thread though. > > What keywords are required to get Amarok 2 to build? I'm not clear > what ~*2.0.1.1 means.
Slingbox is for streaming your TV to and remotely controlling it from a PC or Cell Phone. (I've got one -- doesn't work on Linux, though. booo) My dad has one of those portable internet radios, I don't know the name but it works well and he seems to be pleased with it. (As long as you're in wifi range)
