Quod Libet

feilfritt · n00b Joined: 05 Oct 2007 Posts: 14

I'm currently running quod libet on XFCE 4 and I'm reading that it does radio stations and what not. I do not have the ability to play streams nor is there a radio station menu item such as that I'm reading. The only use flag that I dont know exactly what capabilities it adds is the GNOME use flag. But that installs half of gnome which I do not want to do. I love quod libets layout and features but I also would like it to play streams. Is this possible?

feilfritt · n00b Joined: 05 Oct 2007 Posts: 14

Noone out there knows why I can't play streams with quod libet?

thuk · Posted: Sun Jul 20, 2008 6:33 am Post subject:

Hi feilfritt,

You will need to enable the gnome USE flag on quodlibet in order to get the Internet radio feature. There is no way around this.

Cheers,

thuk

ashtophet · Guru Joined: 08 Aug 2004 Posts: 397

You could use SVN trunk (Quodlibet 2) and will be able to set xine backend, ergo be able to play internet radio streams flawlessly...

The instructions on how to fetch SVN trunk are at EF/QL homepage, the settings will be:

File=$HOME/.quodlibet/config
goto [player] section

replace:

'backend = gstbe' with 'backend = xinebe'
'gst_pipeline = autosink (or whatever)' with 'gst_pipeline = '

HTH

cheers

feilfritt · n00b Joined: 05 Oct 2007 Posts: 14

Ahhh, so it was the GNOME use flag. Thats unfortunate, but the svn trunk idea sounds good. I hadn't even thought of that. Thank you both for your replies

Feilfritt

thuk · Posted: Mon Jul 21, 2008 2:28 am Post subject:

Well, if you are going to use svn trunk, I have an ebuild for it in my overlay:

http://github.com/joshuar/ephemeral-gentoo-overlay/tree/master/media-sound/quodlibet

Instructions for adding the overlay using layman are in the README here:

http://github.com/joshuar/ephemeral-gentoo-overlay/tree/master

Cheers,

thuk