Cannot play Shoutcast stream with AMAROK (gives error)

[Peter Garrett]

On Sat, 2 Feb 2008 16:39:15 +1100
pew_from_hobart <pewtas at gmail.com> wrote:

> The problem is that when I try to play one of the "Shoutcast" internet radio
> stations, I get an error message:
> 
> Error Loading Media
> No Suitable demux plugin. This often means that the file format is not
> supported.
> http://91.121.1.136:9030
> 
> Okay... So I understand that it is telling me to install a "demux plugin"
> (whatever that is)... but I don't know what to install.
> 
> Note that before I needed to do a complete reinstall of Linux UBUNTU (a
> couple of days ago) I had this function of AMAROK working okay.
> 
> So, what I'm saying is that I think that I have a component of AMAROK
> missing or misconfigured.

Try the information at

https://help.ubuntu.com/community/RestrictedFormats

If you are using the "Xine" backend for Amarok, you might need
"libxine-extracodecs" which is a package in Feisty - but in Gutsy I don't
know if this exists as such. There should be an equivalent though.

Alternatively, there are quite a few other apps that will play Shoutcast
streams. On every nice one is "Streamtuner". You can use this with xmms or
audacious or beep-media-player, depending on your Ubuntu version
( audacious is available for Feisty onwards ( 7.04 and up). You can also
rip streams using Streamripper, which Streamtuner can use for that purpose
with a button click.

Peter

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