From owner-freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Aug 21 18:50:09 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id AFD5616A4CF for ; Sat, 21 Aug 2004 18:50:09 +0000 (GMT) Received: from mxsf17.cluster1.charter.net (mxsf17.cluster1.charter.net [209.225.28.217]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4C8F143D31 for ; Sat, 21 Aug 2004 18:50:09 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from thunderlove@charter.net) Received: from mxip06.cluster1.charter.net (mxip06a.cluster1.charter.net [209.225.28.136])i7LIo70F032079 for ; Sat, 21 Aug 2004 14:50:07 -0400 Received: from ts46-02-qdr3280.mdfrd.or.charter.com (HELO [192.168.1.101]) (68.116.58.217) by mxip06.cluster1.charter.net with ESMTP; 21 Aug 2004 14:50:07 -0400 X-Ironport-AV: i="3.84,99,1091419200"; d="scan'208"; a="214047165:sNHT12085224" Message-ID: <4127995E.30906@charter.net> Date: Sat, 21 Aug 2004 11:50:06 -0700 From: Geoff User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; FreeBSD i386; en-US; rv:1.7.2) Gecko/20040821 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: "freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org" References: <41276EEE.D102A5AC@holley.uklinux.net> In-Reply-To: <41276EEE.D102A5AC@holley.uklinux.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit cc: Julian Holley Subject: Re: simple radio player ? X-BeenThere: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Gathering place for new users List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 21 Aug 2004 18:50:09 -0000 Julian Holley wrote: > Hi all - any advice on the best way to listen to radio over the internet > with FreeBSD 4.9 (i.e. BBC formats) ? > The BBC website uses RealPlayer -- the package you are looking for is multimedia/linux-realplayer. Most online radio is streaming mp3's (i.e. .m3u format) For those, xmms is good. Installing RealPlayer involves mundo hoop-jumping. The download page is, at this time, http://forms.real.com/real/player/blackjack.html Good luck :p Geoff