Streaming Internet Radio

[Mark Kretschmann]

On Mon, Apr 27, 2009 at 7:11 PM, First Officer <1xo at bloodwing.com> wrote:
> I just received Amarok 2.0.2 as part of the upgrade of Ubuntu 8.1 to
> 9.04 (Gnome edition), where I used Amarok 1.4.x.
> I like to listen to internet radio - di.fm in particular - and I noticed
> that the current version does not display the songs that are playing,
> but only general stream information. The 1.4 version, however, was able
> to show me the name of the song that was playing.
> It would be nice if you could bring back that functionality.

Make sure that you are using the Phonon-xine backend. The Gnome Ubuntu
flavor uses the Phonon-GStreamer backend by default, which has all
sorts of bugs.

Please google for instructions on how to install and use a different
Phonon backend.

-- 
Mark Kretschmann
Amarok Developer
www.kde.org - amarok.kde.org