Flash Radio

January 10, 2005 in Uncategorized | 2 comments

A quick request: does anyone know of any good flash radio stations? The best one I’ve seen so far is the absolutely fantastic Captain’s Of Industry player, featuring stuff by a lot of good rock bands.

Requirements: preferably rock, indie, metal, punk or otherwise listenable guitar and drums based music. It also has to use Macromedia flash to deliver the sound.

I’m asking because I want music to listen to in the lab, and I’m sick of trying to get Real player working on Linux.

Thanks.

  1. Steve’s avatar

    Steve on January 10, 2005 at 6:53 pm

    Hmm, I don’t have any Flash-based players to point you at. I’ve avoided Internet radio since the days of trying to get said things to work well over a modem.

    Here at home I just installed this version of Realplayer as a normal user (more download options are available here ). It installed happily into my homespace, and is currently playing BBC Radio 6 (best I could think up off the top of my head) without issue.

    Integration into Firefox wasn’t quite so transparent: cp ~/RealPlayer/mozilla/* ~/.firefox/plugins/, but this assumes that “~/RealPlayer/” is in your $PATH before Firefox is started for the plugins to work. I also don’t know off-hand whether new versions of Firefox prefer to use ~/.mozilla/firefox or not, either.

    I’m actually surprised at how clean and bug-free this player is now. I remember when it was stuffed full of ads, was statically compiled against some flaky windowing toolkit, and shipped with only a small chance of actually working.

  2. Gary Fleming’s avatar

    Gary Fleming on January 11, 2005 at 10:16 am

    That version installed a bit easier than previous attempts. Still had a lot of fiddling with paths and proxies to get it to work as a stand-alone player, and then more to get it working as an embedded player. That’s just the joys of Linux though.

    Thanks for the pointer, Steve.