not able to listen to radio stations

[ramaswamyps]

i am a fan of highwaycountry.com and usually listen to country music from this station with live365 player or windows media player

in debian based livecds kanotix .kboppix,gnoppix and even redhat based pclinux os,

i was getting to listen to this fantastic radio with xmms

with great difficulty i could install xmms in fc4test2

but alas the mpeg the format of play.pls will not play in this xmms redhat gives a message this has been disabled for some patent or licence reasons

anybody can suggest any other player which can play this mp3 mpeg files

without this radio its monotonus with this system

ramaswamyps
:mad: :mad: :eek: :eek:

[AndyGreen]

You can get a package

xmms-mp3

which will add back the mp3 capability so cruelly taken from the stock Fedora xmms.

http://rpm.pbone.net/index.php3?stat=3&search=xmms-mp3&srodzaj=3&dist[]=41

[ramaswamyps]

my fc4test3 disks isos download are alsmost complete

in another 8hrs i will have the last cd ready
then i can try installing as suggested

thanks for this iformation

can we install packages of rpm from other than the packages released by up2date fedora dev?

i mean if we can install other privately made free rpm programs like in windows

i have a lot of programs downloaded and installed in my win2k pro and xp like that i want to try other rpm packages also in fedora like stream tuner xine etc,

there is a rpm deb conversion command in debian system is there any like that in fedora too

i would like to experiment with external packages

thanx for any suggestion

ramaswamyps

[tejas]

It is dangerous to install RPMS that are not made for Fedora.

Although it won't give you an error, some will give you some kind of crazy dependency,
my fav is one I got while installing a SuSE rpm in fedora:
dependency: sh required

Othere may work, but the worst are those that may damage your system by installing in the wrong place.

There are many rpms avaliable for each Fedora, and if you have a broadband connection, try using yum.

PS: You should have just waited a few weeks. The magazine Linux For You would have given out a copy of FC4 final. Or at least waited till the FC4 came out. Or do you also have to start paying per Mb you download after June 15? :)

EDIT: good RPMS at this site: www.pbone.net

[imdeemvp]

tejas,It is dangerous to install RPMS that are not made for FedoraSome packages may not be for fedora but some apps are linux oriented and targeted to all linux distros. Some may work some may not and I dont see a problem with some of the apps being mentioned.

[ramaswamyps]

PS: You should have just waited a few weeks. The magazine Linux For You would have given out a copy of FC4 final. Or at least waited till the FC4 came out. Or do you also have to start paying per Mb you download after June 15? :)

EDIT: good RPMS at this site: www.pbone.net[/QUOTE]


who has to pay per mb download?

i have xeenet 128kb ps unlimited broadband connection

no one has told me about pating per mb download

whats news?????

i noted that dependncs will affect system stability

thanks for the warning
ramaswamyps

bangalore

[tejas]

No, not that, without the dependencies, it will not let you install the programs at all

My warning were for those programs that do install. Some of them will share a common file with another program. Replacing a file meant for use with fedora with another file that is for, say debian, will make you system un-optimised, and can even break your working programs.

Try this [something I've done]
Copy an arbitrary .so file into the Firefox/plugins folder.
Firefox will no longer load.

this is a pretty good example of what could happen. Although you didn't edit any of firefox's files, you still trashed it.

Oh, and I have BSNL broadband at 256kB/s. They are giving unlimited usage till June 28th or So, and then I get 1GB/month and re 1 for Mb after

[ramaswamyps]

now i get the idea of the scare the existing working applications fail due to newly installed dependencies or thaeir dependencies

mmmm i hope we can uninstall the newky installed ones and their dependencies

1gb download is nothing for us in first few days only it will be finished

ramaswamyps

[tejas]

I know, BSNL si trying to rob us off. But they give fairly good speeds.

btw, if you already installed a program, and It works, then leave it. There are a few programs which are thea same across all distros. If it works, don't fix it

[ramaswamyps]

i am going to install fc4test3 over fc4test2 and try with new programs

let me see if fc4 test3 has something new and if up2date is fixed

what is it updating to?

the aimed fc4 or the broken packages of fc4tests?

could u give exact instructions to install fc3 i want it for the livecd basilisk

the installer gives head geometry verification errors and does not install

i did not like the packages offered by bsnl

the zeenet gives this 128 kbps gives 12 18 kbytes download speed lamost round the clock
it costs me 1101 per month including my svcables franchisee

bsnl for 256 kbps 1500?

i like to get plan3 but i cant afford 3000 pm

so for the present this connection woksout ok
see u again after i finish this download in an hr or two

i will installfc4test3 and the xmms first with mp3 support and see

ramaswamyps