How to listen to WMA streams

Kipton Moravec kip at kdream.com
Mon Jul 14 13:31:10 UTC 2008



> 
On Mon, 2008-07-14 at 09:11 -0400, Phil Sexton wrote:
> Christian wrote:
> > hi all,
> > What player should I use if I want to listen to WMA streams?
> > Some of the Internet radios I listen to only use Windows Media.
> 
> I can stream just about everything after I followed this giude.
> 
> <http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=766683>
> 


This sounded interesting so I tried it.

kip at red:~ $ wget -q http://packages.medibuntu.org/medibuntu-key.gpg -O-
| sudo apt-key add - && sudo apt-get update
[sudo] password for kip: 
OK

Hit http://us.archive.ubuntu.com hardy Release.gpg
Ign http://us.archive.ubuntu.com hardy/universe Translation-en_US
Hit http://packages.medibuntu.org dapper Release.gpg
Ign http://packages.medibuntu.org dapper/free Translation-en_US
Ign http://us.archive.ubuntu.com hardy/main Translation-en_US
Ign http://us.archive.ubuntu.com hardy/restricted Translation-en_US
Ign http://us.archive.ubuntu.com hardy/multiverse Translation-en_US
Hit http://us.archive.ubuntu.com hardy-updates Release.gpg
Ign http://us.archive.ubuntu.com hardy-updates/main Translation-en_US
Ign http://us.archive.ubuntu.com hardy-updates/restricted
Translation-en_US
Hit http://us.archive.ubuntu.com hardy-backports Release.gpg
Ign http://packages.medibuntu.org dapper/non-free Translation-en_US
Hit http://packages.medibuntu.org dapper Release
Ign http://us.archive.ubuntu.com hardy-backports/main Translation-en_US
Ign http://us.archive.ubuntu.com hardy-backports/restricted
Translation-en_US
Ign http://us.archive.ubuntu.com hardy-backports/universe
Translation-en_US
Ign http://us.archive.ubuntu.com hardy-backports/multiverse
Translation-en_US
Hit http://us.archive.ubuntu.com hardy-security Release.gpg
Hit http://packages.medibuntu.org dapper/free Packages
Ign http://us.archive.ubuntu.com hardy-security/main Translation-en_US
Ign http://us.archive.ubuntu.com hardy-security/restricted
Translation-en_US
Ign http://us.archive.ubuntu.com hardy-security/universe
Translation-en_US
Hit http://us.archive.ubuntu.com hardy Release 
Hit http://us.archive.ubuntu.com hardy-updates Release
Hit http://us.archive.ubuntu.com hardy-backports Release            
Hit http://packages.medibuntu.org dapper/non-free Packages          
Hit http://packages.medibuntu.org dapper/free Sources               
Hit http://packages.medibuntu.org dapper/non-free Sources           
Hit http://us.archive.ubuntu.com hardy-security Release             
Hit http://us.archive.ubuntu.com hardy/main Sources
Hit http://us.archive.ubuntu.com hardy/restricted Sources
Hit http://us.archive.ubuntu.com hardy/universe Packages
Hit http://us.archive.ubuntu.com hardy/main Packages
Hit http://us.archive.ubuntu.com hardy/restricted Packages
Hit http://us.archive.ubuntu.com hardy/multiverse Packages
Hit http://us.archive.ubuntu.com hardy/universe Sources
Hit http://us.archive.ubuntu.com hardy-updates/main Packages
Hit http://us.archive.ubuntu.com hardy-updates/restricted Packages
Hit http://us.archive.ubuntu.com hardy-updates/main Sources
Hit http://us.archive.ubuntu.com hardy-updates/restricted Sources
Hit http://us.archive.ubuntu.com hardy-backports/main Packages
Hit http://us.archive.ubuntu.com hardy-backports/restricted Packages
Hit http://us.archive.ubuntu.com hardy-backports/universe Packages
Hit http://us.archive.ubuntu.com hardy-backports/multiverse Packages
Hit http://us.archive.ubuntu.com hardy-backports/main Sources
Hit http://us.archive.ubuntu.com hardy-backports/restricted Sources
Hit http://us.archive.ubuntu.com hardy-backports/universe Sources
Hit http://us.archive.ubuntu.com hardy-backports/multiverse Sources
Hit http://us.archive.ubuntu.com hardy-security/main Packages
Hit http://us.archive.ubuntu.com hardy-security/restricted Packages
Hit http://us.archive.ubuntu.com hardy-security/main Sources
Hit http://us.archive.ubuntu.com hardy-security/restricted Sources
Hit http://us.archive.ubuntu.com hardy-security/universe Packages
Hit http://us.archive.ubuntu.com hardy-security/universe Sources
Reading package lists... Done

kip at red:~ $ sudo apt-get remove gnash gnash-common icedtea-gcjwebplugin
libflash-mozplugin libflashsupport mozilla-plugin-gnash openjdk-6-jre
openjdk-6-jre-headless openjdk-6-jre-lib swfdec-mozilla && sudo apt-get
install alsa-oss faac faad flashplugin-nonfree gstreamer0.10-ffmpeg
gstreamer0.10-plugins-bad gstreamer0.10-plugins-bad-multiverse
gstreamer0.10-plugins-ugly gstreamer0.10-plugins-ugly-multiverse
gstreamer0.10-pitfdll liblame0 non-free-codecs sun-java6-fonts
sun-java6-jre sun-java6-plugin unrar

Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree       
Reading state information... Done
Package gnash is not installed, so not removed
Package gnash-common is not installed, so not removed
Package icedtea-gcjwebplugin is not installed, so not removed
Package libflash-mozplugin is not installed, so not removed
Package libflashsupport is not installed, so not removed
Package mozilla-plugin-gnash is not installed, so not removed
Package openjdk-6-jre is not installed, so not removed
Package openjdk-6-jre-headless is not installed, so not removed
Package openjdk-6-jre-lib is not installed, so not removed
Package swfdec-mozilla is not installed, so not removed
The following packages were automatically installed and are no longer
required:
  libdns32
Use 'apt-get autoremove' to remove them.
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree       
Reading state information... Done
flashplugin-nonfree is already the newest version.
gstreamer0.10-ffmpeg is already the newest version.
gstreamer0.10-plugins-bad is already the newest version.
gstreamer0.10-plugins-bad-multiverse is already the newest version.
gstreamer0.10-plugins-ugly is already the newest version.
gstreamer0.10-plugins-ugly-multiverse is already the newest version.
gstreamer0.10-pitfdll is already the newest version.
liblame0 is already the newest version.
E: Couldn't find package non-free-codecs
kip at red:~ $ 


Where is the package "non-free-codecs"?

What did I do wrong? I cut and pasted as it said.

Thanks

-- 
Kipton Moravec AE5IB
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--Mark Twain






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