Rhythmbox radio not working

jazzo · 12-22-2015, 01:37 PM

Hi guys, I have ubuntu 12.04 and I'm having some problems with playing the radio in Rhythmbox.
Basically, I've added a radio station and when I try to play it (by double clicking on the url of the radio) it says that “Your GStreamer installation is missing a plug-in."
I've run

Quote:

sudo apt-get install gstreamer-tools

but still no joy. ANy idea what I should do?

coralfang · 12-22-2015, 02:03 PM

Try installing this:

Code:

sudo apt-get install ubuntu-restricted-extras

It should pull in any plugins required for most common audio formats/stream types.
Basically, most of the packages in this meta-package have various licensing/patent issues.

jazzo · 12-23-2015, 04:31 PM

HI thanks. this is what I got:

Code:

antobbo@antobbo-linux-Dell-System-XPS-L702X:~$ sudo apt-get install ubuntu-restricted-extras
[sudo] password for antobbo: 
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree       
Reading state information... Done
ubuntu-restricted-extras is already the newest version.
The following packages were automatically installed and are no longer required:
  libbabl-0.0-0 libgegl-0.0-0
Use 'apt-get autoremove' to remove them.
0 to upgrade, 0 to newly install, 0 to remove and 0 not to upgrade.
antobbo@antobbo-linux-Dell-System-XPS-L702X:~$

Should I do what's it's asking?
thanks

ondoho · 12-23-2015, 05:36 PM

you can do an autoremove any time, but it has no relation to your problem.

do any radio stations work?

can you listen to your radio station through a web browser or some other app?

what is the URL you entered?

jazzo · 12-24-2015, 01:04 PM

Most of them work, but not all. The one in question is http://rusradio.ru/onlineradio

ondoho · 12-24-2015, 01:55 PM

that is not a link to an online music stream, but a link to a webpage.

however, i oopened it in firefox, then i pressed F12 and went to the network tab.
then i pressed the play button on the pink web player, and was thus able to obtain this address:
http://rr.fmtuner.ru/

does that work? it works on my machine, with mpv.

merry christmas!

rokytnji · 12-24-2015, 02:32 PM

Mine shows a corrupt file link odoho in the browser.

But copying your link location and pasting into my xmms player it plays just fine under "play a location"

jazzo · 12-26-2015, 06:36 AM

Thanks guys, ondoho's suggestion worked very well! The link you posted is under Networs > other. What's that "other" tab supposed to do?

ondoho · 12-27-2015, 03:37 AM

glad it works now.
please mark your thread [solved].

Quote:

Originally Posted by jazzo

The link you posted is under Networs > other. What's that "other" tab supposed to do?

i'm sorry, i don't understand any of this.