On Wed, 2004-04-21 at 14:27, Nathan Fredrickson wrote: > On Wed, 2004-04-21 at 13:48, Colin Walters wrote: > > What I'm curious of is comments by people who still use XMMS, and why. > > What are the most important things to you that need to be fixed in > > Rhythmbox? > > I just took my first look at Rhythmbox to see if it could stream an MP3 > over HTTP and most importantly seek within the stream. Unfortunately I > just get an error I don't understand: "Failed to create mad element; > check your installation". Getting MP3 support in the FC1 Rhythmbox is not trivial, it involves both recompiling Rhythmbox and installing a GStreamer plugin. In FC2 it's a bit better - you just need the GStreamer plugin. > My usage pattern is probably non-standard, however my ideal player > would: > - stream audio files (such as MP3) over HTTP > - seek within the stream using the HTTP Range header Hmmm. So this isn't internet radio, you're just playing a static file? I think the gnome-vfs HTTP plugin doesn't support seeking. Once we fix that this should Just Work to add files over http to your library. > - support HTTP Authentication That should already be fixed in Rhythmbox 0.8.0, due to it being fixed in gnome-vfs.
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