>>==<<>>==<<



Rocky Mountain Radio
Click Here

Listening to RMM Radio from Linux
OVERVIEW

A very special thanks to our friend Tony Kerley for doing research on Linux operating systems for us! Tony has let us know that many in Europe, Asia and other locales are using Linux much more frequently, and we want to be sure that our listeners all over the world are able to successfully hear RMM Radio. Because of licensing restrictions, most Linux operating systems require extra software, usually available for free. Based on his work, here are instructions for several popular Linux operating systems:

SUSE

These instructions were developed using a new installation of Linux Suse 10.3 64bit with a high speed cable connection.

1. Go to the Rocky Mountain Radio web page.

2. Find the four radio buttons. Click the far left button if you have a high speed connection, or the 3rd from the left for dial-up.

3. A dialog box will open and suggest Real Player. Set this to be the automatic choice. You should only have to do this once. If Realplayer is not available, you should be able to download it here: http://www.real.com/linux.

Fedora

These instructions were developed using Fedora Core 8 32bit edition with a high speed cable connection.

1. Go to the Rocky Mountain Radio web page.

2. Find the four radio buttons. Click the far left button if you have a high speed connection, or the 3rd from the left for dial-up.

3. A dialog box will open to use the Fedora installed media player, which you should select.

4. There may also be a message indicating that there are missing plugins. You will have two choices, and the free choice will work fine.

5. You should only have to do the setup once.

LinuxOS 2007

These instructions were developed using a new installation of LinuxOS 2007 32 bit with a high speed cable connection.

1. Go to the Rocky Mountain Radio web page.

2. Find the four radio buttons. Click the 2nd button from the left if you have a high speed connection, or the 4th from the left for dial-up.

3. You should get the default MPlayer window, which should work great!

UBUNTU

These instructions were developed using a new installation of Ubuntu 7.10 Gusty Gibbon on a 32bit machine. They're pretty complex, so I've included Tony's full write-up:

1. Go to the Rocky Mountain Radio web page.

2. Bookmark the page.

3. Click on the 2nd from left button for high speed connection or use the dial-up if required. The default player appears with plug-ins missing, follow the link by clicking on it, then select the Adobe Flash Player, you will be asked again if you want the non-free Adobe Flash Player, say yes, they don't charge you. When thats done and set you will have to log out of Firefox, do this from the file menu, not from the little x up on the right top corner, its not Microsoft!

4. Log back into Rocky Mountain and click the iTunes/Winamp/Linux either high-speed or dial-up, according to your connection speed. and open the player Rhythmbox Music Player, half way down the left-hand side of the player you find a little red radio, click on it and keep the player open, next click on the Rocky Mountain default player button. When the default player opens, which will not play, but you do get an address at the top of the player box, you need that address, well part of it.

5. Go back to the Rhythmbox Player and find the Music drop down file, click on New Internet Radio, a new box opens, URL (I dont know what that means either), type in sc6.spacialnet.com apply that address and it will appear in Rhythmbox, the address that the music comes from. It wont work yet but don’t worry, close Rhythmbox.

6. Go to Add/Remove from the Applications menu, select Sound & Video and Show All Available Applications.

7. Select:-

Audacious (cuz its nice)

Fulmotion Streaming Server

Gnash SWF Viewer

Gnome Player

Gstreamer Dirac Video Plug in

Gstreamer Extra Plug-ins

Gsteamer ffmpeg video plug-in

Gstreamer mpeg2 demuxing

Gstreamer plug-in aac xvid mpeg2 faad

Gstreamer plug-in mms wavpack musepack

Helix Player and bundle

8. Click apply, you will need your Ubuntu disk, pop it in as they ask you to, click apply.

9. Fill in the SSL Certificate, (it wont hurt).

10. You can try the Rhythumbox Player, but mine did not work, not the right code, lets move on.

11. The Synaptic Package Manager is on the drop-down System menu, follow the instructions if it wants to update. Search for mp3 streamers, there were quite a few, so I applied quite a few, thinking I'm bound to get one that works.

12. But it didn't work, so back to Synaptic Package Manager and search for Shoutcast streamers,applied most of them.

13. With a help this should work! Log into Rocky Mountain Radio, select the correct Itunes/Winamp/Linux button, you should then get to Rhythmbox, click the little red radio, find the station address and click it, it should now buffer and play. If not, try a shutdown and restart computer, as in Microsoft, no luck try opening the player in Mplayer. You should find it works, I've done this twice, reinstalled Ubuntu and started all over and it worked, give it a go!