[OpenIndiana-discuss] Formats for rhythmbox internet radio?

[Gary Mills]

I've just started using rhythmbox on OI hipster. I use it mainly for
listening to Internet radio. What formats can rhythmbox use to play
radio streams? The default set seems to be almost entirely OGG
streams. Can it play anything else?

What about MP3 streams? I assume I need a proprietary codec for
those. Can I obtain this someplace?

If it matters, I'm using the pulseaudio sound system.

[Till Wegmüller]

Hi

All Patent encumbered Software is available from the Publisher
hipster-encumbered under https://pkg.openindiana.org/hipster-encumbered

Greetings
Till

Post by Gary Mills
I've just started using rhythmbox on OI hipster. I use it mainly for
listening to Internet radio. What formats can rhythmbox use to play
radio streams? The default set seems to be almost entirely OGG
streams. Can it play anything else?
What about MP3 streams? I assume I need a proprietary codec for
those. Can I obtain this someplace?
If it matters, I'm using the pulseaudio sound system.

[Gary Mills]

Post by Till Wegmüller
All Patent encumbered Software is available from the Publisher
hipster-encumbered under https://pkg.openindiana.org/hipster-encumbered

That doesn't help me at all. Which package should I install to enable
rhythmbox to use some other stream format? I see lots of gstreamer
packages there. Which ones should I install?

[ken mays via openindiana-discuss]

Gary,
You can playback nearly all of them if you add these packages:
pkg install gstreamer* (bad/ugly,...)
You can do a few things with it like SoundCloud and Podcasting....


On Wednesday, October 10, 2018, 11:00:40 AM PDT, Gary Mills <***@fastmail.fm> wrote:

I've just started using rhythmbox on OI hipster.  I use it mainly for
listening to Internet radio.  What formats can rhythmbox use to play
radio streams?  The default set seems to be almost entirely OGG
streams.  Can it play anything else?

What about MP3 streams?  I assume I need a proprietary codec for
those.  Can I obtain this someplace?

If it matters, I'm using the pulseaudio sound system.