Re: How do I listen to radio?

2007-06-02 Thread Nigel Henry
On Saturday 02 June 2007 01:38, Ed Jabbour wrote: On Friday 01 June 2007 12:15, Nigel Henry wrote: Ed says. OK. Installed from RealPlayer10GOLD.bin. Symlinks are in place. Shows up in about:plugins. But, BBC radio is a nogo, as above. Same failure at CSPAN, btw. On sites other

[OT] s's or m's ... was: Re: How do I listen to radio?

2007-06-02 Thread Ken Irving
On Sat, Jun 02, 2007 at 05:58:34PM +0200, Nigel Henry wrote: ... far as realplayer goes, if it doesn't get it's act together, it will be asimmilated. (darn it. Is it 2 s's, or 2 m's. I can't spell it right, and both look wrong) (perhaps it's 2 s's , and 2 m's) I use dict more than

Re: How do I listen to radio?

2007-06-02 Thread Nigel Henry
On Saturday 02 June 2007 17:58, Nigel Henry wrote: On Saturday 02 June 2007 01:38, Ed Jabbour wrote: On Friday 01 June 2007 12:15, Nigel Henry wrote: Ed says. OK. Installed from RealPlayer10GOLD.bin. Symlinks are in place. Shows up in about:plugins. But, BBC radio is a nogo, as

Re: How do I listen to radio?

2007-06-01 Thread Nigel Henry
On Friday 01 June 2007 04:28, Ed Jabbour wrote: On Thursday 31 May 2007 09:26, Nigel Henry wrote: On Thursday 31 May 2007 03:07, Ed Jabbour wrote: On Wednesday 30 May 2007 06:00, Jan Willem Stumpel wrote: I can listen to it by just clicking on the listen link at

Re: How do I listen to radio?

2007-06-01 Thread Ed Jabbour
On Friday 01 June 2007 12:15, Nigel Henry wrote: Ed says. OK. Installed from RealPlayer10GOLD.bin. Symlinks are in place. Shows up in about:plugins. But, BBC radio is a nogo, as above. Same failure at CSPAN, btw. On sites other than those two, RealPlayer works fine. Well, not

Re: How do I listen to radio?

2007-06-01 Thread Ron Johnson
On 06/01/07 18:38, Ed Jabbour wrote: On Friday 01 June 2007 12:15, Nigel Henry wrote: Ed says. OK. Installed from RealPlayer10GOLD.bin. Symlinks are in place. Shows up in about:plugins. But, BBC radio is a nogo, as above. Same failure at CSPAN, btw. On sites other than those two,

Re: How do I listen to radio?

2007-05-31 Thread Ron Johnson
On 05/30/07 19:28, Douglas Allan Tutty wrote: On Wed, May 30, 2007 at 09:29:05PM +0200, Nigel Henry wrote: Back in the 60's I remember listening to Radio Luxembourg, and Radio Caroline. The signals were weak, and would constantly fade out and back in, accompanied by harmonics, but we were

Re: How do I listen to radio?

2007-05-31 Thread Douglas Allan Tutty
On Thu, May 31, 2007 at 01:08:42AM -0500, Ron Johnson wrote: On 05/30/07 19:28, Douglas Allan Tutty wrote: It does seem overkill to turn on a computer, tie up one's phone line, and perhaps pay for bandwidth Ssssh, geeks like technological overkill Actually, I'm a geek and get a

Re: How do I listen to radio?

2007-05-31 Thread Nigel Henry
On Thursday 31 May 2007 03:07, Ed Jabbour wrote: On Wednesday 30 May 2007 06:00, Jan Willem Stumpel wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, all I want to do is listen to radio 2 (sad I know). I am unable to find any way of doing this with out using RealPlayer, which is very hard to do as

Re: How do I listen to radio?

2007-05-31 Thread Ron Johnson
On 05/31/07 08:26, Nigel Henry wrote: [snip] Hi Ed. Its probably worth trying http://www.co.uk/radio4 Of course, what you *really* mean is http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/ -- Ron Johnson, Jr. Jefferson LA USA Give a man a fish, and he eats for a day. Hit him with a fish, and he goes away for

Re: How do I listen to radio?

2007-05-31 Thread Nigel Henry
On Thursday 31 May 2007 16:43, Ron Johnson wrote: On 05/31/07 08:26, Nigel Henry wrote: [snip] Hi Ed. Its probably worth trying http://www.co.uk/radio4 Of course, what you *really* mean is http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/ -- Ron Johnson, Jr. Jefferson LA USA Yeh. Sorry. Unintentional

Re: How do I listen to radio?

2007-05-31 Thread Ron Johnson
On 05/31/07 11:42, Nigel Henry wrote: [snip] I don't understand where they are pointing to. What does the ../../ signify? Go up 2 directory levels. I'm not knocking Christian's package, but just couldn't get it to work for some reason or other. Hmmm, it's always works well for me. --

Re: How do I listen to radio?

2007-05-31 Thread Ed Jabbour
On Thursday 31 May 2007 09:26, Nigel Henry wrote: On Thursday 31 May 2007 03:07, Ed Jabbour wrote: On Wednesday 30 May 2007 06:00, Jan Willem Stumpel wrote: I can listen to it by just clicking on the listen link at http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio2, using the realplayer package; this is not

Re: How do I listen to radio?

2007-05-31 Thread debian
On Thu, May 31, 2007 at 10:28:57PM -0400, Ed Jabbour wrote: about:plugins. But, BBC radio is a nogo, as above. Same failure at CSPAN, My 2c: when I click on the Radio Player icon (Radio3 in my case), I click on Listen using stand-alone Real Player. I then save the file to disk. At the cl I

How do I listen to radio?

2007-05-30 Thread Tshepang Lekhonkhobe
Forwarding to the proper list: -- Forwarded message -- From: Snow, David [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: May 30, 2007 10:28 AM Subject: To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Hi, all I want to do is listen to radio 2 (sad I know). I am nable to find any way of doing this with out using RealPlayer,

Re: How do I listen to radio?

2007-05-30 Thread Chaim Keren Tzion
Hi David, I use mplayer. It can be used from the shell giving the URL of the stream; as a plugin to firefox or as a standalone gui program (gmplayer - part of the mplayer package) apt-get install mplayer mozilla-mplayer Should get you started. (I'm not sure which repository it is in.) For a

Re: How do I listen to radio?

2007-05-30 Thread Jan Willem Stumpel
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, all I want to do is listen to radio 2 (sad I know). I am unable to find any way of doing this with out using RealPlayer, which is very hard to do as unable to find one that I can down load and use on debian. I can listen to it by just clicking on the listen link

Re: How do I listen to radio?

2007-05-30 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
Chaim Keren Tzion wrote: Hi David, I use mplayer. It can be used from the shell giving the URL of the stream; as a plugin to firefox or as a standalone gui program (gmplayer - part of the mplayer package) apt-get install mplayer mozilla-mplayer Should get you started. (I'm not sure which

Re: How do I listen to radio?

2007-05-30 Thread Douglas Allan Tutty
On Wed, May 30, 2007 at 11:17:15AM +0200, Tshepang Lekhonkhobe wrote: Hi, all I want to do is listen to radio 2 (sad I know). I am nable to find any way of doing this with out using RealPlayer, which is very hard to do as unable to find one that I can down load and use on debian. At the

Re: How do I listen to radio?

2007-05-30 Thread Jonathan Kaye
Tshepang Lekhonkhobe wrote: Forwarding to the proper list: -- Forwarded message -- From: Snow, David [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: May 30, 2007 10:28 AM Subject: To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Hi, all I want to do is listen to radio 2 (sad I know). I am nable to find any way of

Re: How do I listen to radio?

2007-05-30 Thread John Hasler
Tshepang Lekhonkhobe wrote: Hi, all I want to do is listen to radio 2 (sad I know). I am nable to find any way of doing this with out using RealPlayer, which is very hard to do as unable to find one that I can down load and use on debian. Install streamtuner. -- John Hasler -- To

Re: How do I listen to radio?

2007-05-30 Thread Johannes Wiedersich
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 John Hasler wrote: Tshepang Lekhonkhobe wrote: Hi, all I want to do is listen to radio 2 (sad I know). I am nable to find any way of doing this with out using RealPlayer, which is very hard to do as unable to find one that I can down load and

Re: How do I listen to radio?

2007-05-30 Thread John Hasler
I wrote: Install streamtuner. Johannes writes: That's really cool! Haven't managed, yet, to find radio 2, You can add your own stations. -- John Hasler -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: How do I listen to radio?

2007-05-30 Thread Nigel Henry
On Wednesday 30 May 2007 19:13, Johannes Wiedersich wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 John Hasler wrote: Tshepang Lekhonkhobe wrote: Hi, all I want to do is listen to radio 2 (sad I know). I am nable to find any way of doing this with out using RealPlayer, which is

Re: How do I listen to radio?

2007-05-30 Thread Douglas Allan Tutty
On Wed, May 30, 2007 at 09:29:05PM +0200, Nigel Henry wrote: Back in the 60's I remember listening to Radio Luxembourg, and Radio Caroline. The signals were weak, and would constantly fade out and back in, accompanied by harmonics, but we were happy to listen to the music. Quite why CD

Re: How do I listen to radio?

2007-05-30 Thread Ed Jabbour
On Wednesday 30 May 2007 06:00, Jan Willem Stumpel wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, all I want to do is listen to radio 2 (sad I know). I am unable to find any way of doing this with out using RealPlayer, which is very hard to do as unable to find one that I can down load and use on