gymnart

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I used to be able to enjoy Amarok 1.4.7 for listening to internet radio. Now lately, Amarok cannot connect to any stations at all. All I get is an error message, "No suitable input plugin" for every station I try. I'm sure that have them or else it never would have worked in the first place! I have not done a thing to my computer (SuSE 10.0) in a very long time. The only thing that I have done is to surf the internet and use email.

Amarok 1.4.7 uses the Xine Engine on my machine. With the older Amarok, it did give you a choice as to what engine you could use. Now it seems there is only one. I don't see a way to check on my plugins either.

I have tried deleting the .xine file and restarting Amarok but that did not make any difference.

XMMS has no trouble connecting to any stations, so I'm very puzzled about this.

{BBI}Nexus{BBI}

Try renaming your /home/username/.kde/share/apps/amarok folder to something like amarokold, then delete your /home/username/.kde/share/apps/amarok folder and fireup amarok to see if the problem is solved. If you don't need your original amarok folder you can just delete it instead of renaming it.

gymnart

I did as you said, and that did not make any difference.

I tried connecting to my favorite Shoutcast stations from my Windows XP computer and they just timed out. I'm beginning to think that it's more of a firewall issue. I found that XMMS can connect to some Icecast (xiph) stations and I just tried it in Amarok and that worked. So I'm now limited to just those 3 streams that work.

P.S. Thanks for your reply.

Abdrahim

I had the same problem. All worked well when I turned off the firewall, in my case Firestarter. Thanks for the hint.