Hello:

I am using amarok (kde) and have been using Rythmbox (gnome). When I stream SomaFM's Indie Pop Rock I do not get the song title and artist information with amarok, but I did get this with Rythmbox. Is this normal? Is there some setting I need to tweak?

Thanks.

Welcome to the forum, indigo196! It's working here. Now playing: "Mirage People" by Capitol Years. I don't like it, though . Using Amarok 1.4.7 and xine-engine. Replicate my settings and it should work.

I'm on a FreeBSD system and I get an error that this stream needs a plugin. Which plugin is it I have to install?

lesjen wrote:I'm on a FreeBSD system and I get an error that this stream needs a plugin. Which plugin is it I have to install?

Make sure that your Amarok is able to play mp3 (can you play local mp3 files?), and if that's the case, simply try to restart the stream a few times. If the server is actually online, it will usually work at the second or third attempt. This small annoyance is a known bug in xinelib and is going to be fixed at some point.

indigo196 wrote:I am using amarok (kde) and have been using Rythmbox (gnome). When I stream SomaFM's Indie Pop Rock I do not get the song title and artist information with amarok, but I did get this with Rythmbox. Is this normal? Is there some setting I need to tweak?

I have a similar problem playing last.fm streams. The song information are correct for the first song, but there is no update...
I've checked on last.fm and the problem seems to be in amarok (the titles are correct on my profile page).
I'm using version 1.4.7 on Mandriva 2008 and 1.4.8 on Fedora 8.

Thanks