I'd like to get radio streams off of websites and add them to playlists. I got Radio 3 to play fine, but Planet Rock and Classic FM (and probably others) won't play in Amarok, it complains "Np audio stream!"... when there clearly is, because Kaffeine can play it. What's more, Amarok and Kaffeine are both using the Xine engine. I'm rather confused. Please help.

My system:
Kubuntu Feisty, Amarok 1.4.7
libxine-extracodecs, libxine-ffmpeg are installed, etc.

I have the same problem!

Why is this happening?

for example this radio stream (it is a Greek radio station) I am struggling with: http://69.93.193.130/freeradio-1000
can be played using mplayer but no way using amarok

I've struggled a bit with this also. A couple of streams I've gotten to work:

local classical station KING-FM: http://sc1.abacast.com:8246/

favorite local NPR station: http://128.208.34.80:8002/listen.pls

Try adding these two and see if they work for you. Getting the correct URL is the problem I think. A lot of the stations have their streams in a windows-only wrapper filetype. You have to get the actual mp3 stream URL for Amarok to be able to decode and play it.

The built-in streams that come with Amarok usually work for me also. Have you tried those?

Valorie

The shoutcast streams usually work but sonetimes they don't.

If you "wget" the url of a stream (windows) then you can access the raw mp3/whatever stream it's trying to access, but here no avail.

dandart wrote:The shoutcast streams usually work but sonetimes they don't.

Known xinelib bug, sorry. You sometimes have to retry a few times.

Good news is, this won't happen any more in Amarok 2.