Comments on: How to listen to Sirius online radio with Linux or OSX.

By: jeffemmert

jeffemmert — Sun, 04 May 2008 21:04:58 +0000

I have it installed and almost working in Firefox 2 in a Kubuntu 8.04 (KDE 3.5) environment. I’m logged in and my station is displayed, but no sound is coming out. Amarok media player works fine and I am able to login to Sirius using Konqueror and get it playing that way. How do I get the Sirius Player toolbar working in Firefox? It may need some additional plugin. Sadly MediaPlayer is unavaible to me in Linux.

By: ER

ER — Thu, 01 May 2008 23:01:31 +0000

Sirius does indeed play on UbuntuStudio 8.04 running KDE and Firefox 3…it’s somewhat deceptive at first because the player window shows no activity…but if you see “transferring data from xxxxxx.xxxxx akamaistream.net”at the bottom of the player window…after a few seconds you should hear audio. I installed the optional media packs/plugins available in “add remove programs” and I believe that set it up to work.

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By: Mike

Mike — Wed, 26 Mar 2008 12:04:45 +0000

I’m still working on the firefox plugin and ubuntu. Sipie works well enough for me. If you only care about a few stations then all you have to do is copy the stream locations and enter them into totem or xine.

Thanks for the visit and the comment.

By: jimbo

jimbo — Tue, 25 Mar 2008 22:28:15 +0000

check this out http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aaiRMInkTvk

By: jimbo

jimbo — Tue, 25 Mar 2008 22:26:44 +0000

I am listening to sipie right now to howard stern on Ubuntu , also it works in firefox
the program for macosx is a freeware , its like the coolest thing ever , also if u google enough , you can play it in vlc ( done it myself) also in gxine ( did not try this yet)

By: admin

admin — Wed, 19 Mar 2008 21:01:28 +0000

ed. The firefox plugin never worked for me.

Ice. I know you can switch window managers at the drop of a hat. I just prefered the cli interface of sipie. Mostly because it allows me to integrate sirius into my MythTV menus giving me whole house audio.

As for KDE vs Gnome I prefer Gnome. No particular reason. I just do. I will admit that file manager in KDE is way better then nautilus.
The rest is just personal preference.

By: ed

ed — Wed, 19 Mar 2008 20:35:24 +0000

I have no problem playing sirius through Firefox on the Gnome desktop.

By: IceTheNet

IceTheNet — Wed, 19 Mar 2008 18:31:24 +0000

[quote] you lucky KDE guys? [/quote]
Unless you have been living in the dark ages KDE can be installed on linux, solaris, BSD, and many other operating systems. From Ubuntu that comes with Gnome Stock the package manager will allow you to install kde and you can even change your whole system to kubuntu by selecting kde as your default GUI. or leave it run as I do as GNOME. Then you can have the best of both worlds just log off and log into KDE. or if you want another option good advice use virtual box and install a kde os you could even install ubuntu with kde and make it full kubuntu and listen to serious:) but still have your main os available.

OK that is just way too much fun

Enjoy

By: Mike

Mike — Wed, 19 Mar 2008 12:24:59 +0000

you lucky KDE guys. But thanks for the info and the visit. Now I know.