Is there a simple streaming audio (.pls) player?

[Walter Dnes]

On Sun, Oct 29, 2006 at 07:34:00PM -0500, Evan Leibovitch wrote
> Walter Dnes wrote:
> > I have one other need for an audioplayer.  I'm a paying subscriber of
> > Live365, and I need a simple audio player to launch and play audio
> > streams direct off a .pls file.  Windows-Media-Player-wannabees like
> > amarok need not apply.
> That's a shame, because I use amarok all the time to play Live365 feeds.

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[m3000][root][~] emerge --ask amarok

These are the packages that would be merged, in order:

Calculating dependencies... done!
[ebuild  N    ] dev-libs/libcdio-0.77  USE="-cddb -minimal -nls -nocxx"
[ebuild  N    ] media-video/vcdimager-0.7.23  USE="-minimal -xml"
[ebuild  N    ] media-libs/xine-lib-1.1.2-r2  USE="X a52 aac alsa dvd flac mng opengl sdl theora vcd vorbis win32codecs xv -aalib (-altivec) -arts -asf -debug -directfb -dts -dxr3 -esd -fbcon -gnome -imagemagick -ipv6 -libcaca -mad -modplug -nls -oss -samba -speex -v4l -vidix -xinerama -xvmc" VIDEO_CARDS="-i810 -nvidia -via"
[ebuild  N    ] dev-ruby/ruby-config-0.3.1
[ebuild  N    ] dev-lang/ruby-1.8.5  USE="threads -cjk -debug -doc -examples -ipv6 -socks5 -tk"
[ebuild  N    ] x11-libs/qt-3.3.6-r3  USE="gif opengl -cups -debug -doc -examples -firebird -immqt -immqt-bc -ipv6 -mysql -nas -nis -odbc -postgres -sqlite -xinerama"
[ebuild  N    ] dev-libs/libpcre-6.6  USE="-doc"
[ebuild  N    ] kde-base/kde-env-3-r4
[ebuild  N    ] app-admin/gamin-0.1.7  USE="-debug -doc"
[ebuild  N    ] kde-base/kdelibs-3.5.2-r6  USE="alsa tiff -acl -arts
-cups -debug -doc -jpeg2k -kdeenablefinal -kdehiddenvisibility -kerberos -legacyssl -openexr -spell -ssl -xinerama -zeroconf"
[ebuild  N    ] media-sound/amarok-1.4.3-r1  USE="aac opengl -arts -debug -ifp -ipod -kde -mysql -njb -noamazon -postgres -real -visualization -xinerama -xmms" LINGUAS="-az -bg -br -ca -cs -cy -da -de -el -en_GB -es -et -fi -fr -ga -gl -he -hi -hu -is -it -ja -ka -km -ko -lt -ms -nb -nl -nn -pa -pl -pt -pt_BR -ro -ru -rw -sl -sr -sr at Latn -sv -ta -tg -th -tr -uk -uz -zh_CN -zh_TW"

Would you like to merge these packages? [Yes/No] No

Quitting.
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  So, on my system, amarok would require adding dev-libs/libcdio,
media-video/vcdimager, media-libs/xine-lib, dev-ruby/ruby-config,
dev-lang/ruby, x11-libs/qt, dev-libs/libpcre, kde-base/kde-env,
app-admin/gamin, and kde-base/kdelibs... all for a streaming audioplayer?
Someone who already has Xine and KDE installed and is a Ruby developer
might not see so much additional baggage, but I like to keep my system
lean-and-mean.  I guess I'll miss out on the super eye-candy and funky
visualizations provided by amarok.

  I'm typing this post in an 80x48 textmode console (tty01), with
Live365 running in an X session (tty10).  I run email (mutt) and usenet
news (slrn) in real textmode.  I have urlview launch a firefox tab for
interesting URLs.  {ALT-F10} to view the web or a spreadsheet or a
picture, and then {CTRL-ALT-F1} to go back to email or {CTRL-ALT-F2} to
go back to news.  I reserve tty11 for a second user account with a
480x360 pixel session, for videos from Google, Youtube, etc.

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