On Fri, May 09, 2014 at 12:01:30PM +0100, Chris Walker wrote:
On Thu, 8 May 2014 18:07:24 +0100 Chris Green cl@isbd.net wrote:
I'm looking for a way to (simply) play BBC Radio 4 and other BBC stations on my desktop machine. I used to use radiotray but updating to xubuntu 14.04 seems to have broken that completely (it was always a *bit* flakey).
I don't want a full blown music player really, though one that's easy to configure to play BBC would be OK.
I *definitely* don't want a list of thousands of stations to select from which rarely includes BBC anyway, I just want to be able to enter a BBC radio URL and hear the radio.
I have clementine installed but I can't see how to get that to play URLs, it looks like it should but seems to be broken when you try it. Like so many other players I've found.
Have you tried persuading VLC to play BBC streams - that's assuming you have it installed of course!
Does this help? http://www.wikihow.com/Use-VLC-Media-Player-to-Listen-to-Internet-Radio
Having recently rebuilt my machine, I don't now have Radiotray installed so I've just remedied that but in searching for 'radio' in the list of software. it also lists 'radio - a console radio application and describes it as 'ncurses-based radio application'.
I'm running Mageia so it may not be available in XUbuntu of course.
It is in Xubuntu but I think 'radio' is a VHF tuner controller rather than an internet radio player.