Amarok radio listening headaches

[Emanoil Kotsev]

Knapp wrote:

> On Sat, Nov 1, 2008 at 3:02 PM, Emanoil Kotsev <deloptes at yahoo.com> wrote:
>> Knapp wrote:
>>
>>>> try set this in your environment
>>>>
>>>> export FIREFOX_DSP="aoss"
>>>>
>>>> or FIREFOX_DSP="aoss" firefox
>>>>
>>>> to check if it works
>>>>
>>>> regards
>>>
>>> What do you mean by environment? How or where do you set that?
>>>
>>>
>>
>> Firefox checks the environment variable FIREFOX_DSP which can be set
>> to 'aoss', that would activate the alsa oss wrapper for applications that
>> want to access /dev/dsp
>>
>> This way you can play flash and other sounds coming through firefox and
>> use other sound players like amarok, xmms or whatever synchronously,
>> presumably your alsa system is configured properly.
>>
>> regards
> 
> But what does that have to do with Amarok failing with networked
> playing? It works fine with playing files on the HD.

I solved similar problem this way once and forever.
What plugin/app is used to play the stream?
If this plugin is not using alsa or alsa is not well configured I think it
has to do with it. At the end the sound goes out over the sound card
doesn't matter where it's coming from.

regards