On Mon, Dec 15, 2008 at 11:05:14PM -0700, Dave Thayer wrote: > On Mon, Dec 15, 2008 at 12:38:20PM -0500, Thomas H. George wrote: > > I ordered an Aluratek AIRJ01F as a Christmas present for a grandson who > > sticks with Windows XP. My understanding is that this device when > > plugged in to a usb port automaticly loads a program which provides > > access to 13,000 internet radio stations with scan options to find > > various types of music. > > > > Curious, I have tried google and apt-cache searches for something > > similar for linux without locating any matches. Of course mplayer > > and similar packages allow me to connect to streams from stations I know > > so the difference is only the problem of identifying 13,000 posible > > streams and some information about their characteristics. Someone must > > have done a lot of work? > > > > You probably want something that uses a service such as shoutcast or > live365. Streamtuner supports several such services, and > "apt-cache search shoutcast" gives several other candidates. > > HTH >
Yes, Streamtuner is quite impressive and gathers in several of the other services listed by shoutcast. Thanks for this lead. Tom > dt > > -- > Dave Thayer | Whenever you read a good book, it's like the > Denver, Colorado USA | author is right there, in the room talking to > d...@thayer-boyle.com | you, which is why I don't like to read > | good books. - Jack Handey "Deep Thoughts" > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org > > -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
