On Tue, Jan 27, 2009 at 7:17 PM, Nick Cunningham <n...@monkeydust.net> wrote: > > > 2009/1/27 Mark Knecht <markkne...@gmail.com> >> >> 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. >> >> Thanks, >> Mark >> > > Be aware that amarok2 is currently broken on amd64 (hence the mask) due to > problems with mysql (which it now requires by default). If you look back in > the archives there have been threads explaining how to work around it and > get mysql working so amarok2 builds ok. > > - Nick >
I'm using the live build (amarok-9999 from kde-testing overlay) as for the past week or two, it built & works (with the previously mentioned quirks) on my ~amd64 with kde 4.2 and mysql built with PIC as described in the other thread.
