Description: Edited Cool Streams and added extra stations to cover more genres and tastes. Plan is to add more stations with time and to sort them by genre (your help with genres is greatly appreciated). All extra added stations are last.fm compatible (songs are scrobbled properly).
Let me know if you have any ideas or stations to add.
Install via Script manager: In Amarok select Tools > Script manager > Get more scripts > Search phrase: Cool Streams > select script and click Install > restart Amarok
To install from file: In Amarok select Tools > Script manager > Install script > browse to cool_streams_reloaded.amarokscript.tar.gz > Open > OK > OK and restart Amarok.Last changelog:
v1.2.4: Fixed crashing bug (thanks to Aiwendil!) Hope everything works fine now
v1.2.3: Added 28 more streams from 1club.fm (Blues, Classical, Hip-Hop, Electro, Oldies, Rock, Punk, Metal) so there's some for everyone; Merged few genres into one;
v1.2.2: Added 3 streams from http://www.psychedelik.com/ (Thanks jason1); Few more icon changes;
v1.2.1: Added custom icons for the script; Some more minor code changes;
v1.2: Added 8 CBC stations (shamesly stolen from CBC Radio script, hope the author doesn't mind) All of them announce artist and song title so its last.fm compatible; Some minor genre sorting changes;
v1.1: Introduced genre sorting (still in progress);
v1.0: Added few extra stations to original Cool Streams script
Crashes Amarok 2.3.2 for me also. But to present a solution and follow my narcissistic tendencies and quoting myself form a knowledge base question according to this:
Quote:
First install the script again from withint Amarok with the script manager. Then quit amarok. To prevent Amarok from crashing when starting it again open the script file "~/.kde4/share/apps/amarok/scripts/cool_streams_reloaded/main.js" in a text editor. Before line 41 "Importer.loadQtBinding("qt.gui");" include another line "Importer.loadQtBinding("qt.core");" so that the script looks like:
...
# http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hochschulradio
# http://www.antenne.de/antenne/radio/frequenzen/stream.php
*/
Importer.loadQtBinding("qt.core");
Importer.loadQtBinding("qt.gui");
script = new RadioDE();
script.populate.connect( onPopulating );
...
Afterwards Amarok will start up, load the script and it seems to work fine for me.
Hope that helps.
So correcting it here also as I of course messed up...no real surprise. Pasted the code of the script I looked at that worked...not the code of Cool Streams Reloaded.
Correct quote:
Quote:
...
# Free Software Foundation, Inc., #
# 51 Franklin Street, Fifth Floor, Boston, MA 02110-1301, USA. #
##########################################################################*/
Importer.loadQtBinding( "qt.core" );
Importer.loadQtBinding( "qt.gui" ); //for QPixmap
function Station( name, url, description )
{
this.name = name;
...
Ok, I updated the script with your sollution. Hope everything works fine now.
Feel free to let me know if you have any issues.
Thanks for your help Aiwendil ;)
Found incorrect genre for the stream
[Studio 54] 1club.fm - Studio 54
i.e. station name instead of genre. I think it must be "Disco".
Nevertheless, script is good. I think it's best replacement for ShoutCast.
Added and I'll upload new version in a minute.
PS Even though that stations struggle with artist and song title so last.fm wont scrobble it properly. Thanks for your suggestion.
Since the Classical streams are so limited, perhaps you can add the WRR Radio stream at http://www.wrr101.com.
WRR is a classical station owned by the City of Dallas, Texas--although it is commercial in that it does have ads. Otherwise, the programming is excellent.
ok, I'm stuck on genres so I need your help. what would you think is the best way to sort the genres? i was thinking on placing one station under more genres if station is declared as multiple-genre stream but im still not sure. keep in mind that the system should be effective when the number of stations becomes bigger.
oh, and feel free to leave a stream or two in comments :)
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I found that this script causes Amarok to crash. See https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=245990 for more details
Crashes Amarok 2.3.2 for me also. But to present a solution and follow my narcissistic tendencies and quoting myself form a knowledge base question according to this: Quote:
First install the script again from withint Amarok with the script manager. Then quit amarok. To prevent Amarok from crashing when starting it again open the script file "~/.kde4/share/apps/amarok/scripts/cool_streams_reloaded/main.js" in a text editor. Before line 41 "Importer.loadQtBinding("qt.gui");" include another line "Importer.loadQtBinding("qt.core");" so that the script looks like:
...
# http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hochschulradio
# http://www.antenne.de/antenne/radio/frequenzen/stream.php
*/
Importer.loadQtBinding("qt.core");
Importer.loadQtBinding("qt.gui");
script = new RadioDE();
script.populate.connect( onPopulating );
...
Afterwards Amarok will start up, load the script and it seems to work fine for me.
Hope that helps.
So correcting it here also as I of course messed up...no real surprise. Pasted the code of the script I looked at that worked...not the code of Cool Streams Reloaded. Correct quote: Quote:
...
# Free Software Foundation, Inc., #
# 51 Franklin Street, Fifth Floor, Boston, MA 02110-1301, USA. #
##########################################################################*/
Importer.loadQtBinding( "qt.core" );
Importer.loadQtBinding( "qt.gui" ); //for QPixmap
function Station( name, url, description )
{
this.name = name;
...
Ok, I updated the script with your sollution. Hope everything works fine now. Feel free to let me know if you have any issues. Thanks for your help Aiwendil ;)
Found incorrect genre for the stream [Studio 54] 1club.fm - Studio 54 i.e. station name instead of genre. I think it must be "Disco". Nevertheless, script is good. I think it's best replacement for ShoutCast.
This looks bit like spam :) but here we go.. streams from this site would be great addition to psy* genre: http://www.psychedelik.com/
Added and I'll upload new version in a minute. PS Even though that stations struggle with artist and song title so last.fm wont scrobble it properly. Thanks for your suggestion.
Since the Classical streams are so limited, perhaps you can add the WRR Radio stream at http://www.wrr101.com. WRR is a classical station owned by the City of Dallas, Texas--although it is commercial in that it does have ads. Otherwise, the programming is excellent.
ok, i'll check it out. thanks!
ok, I'm stuck on genres so I need your help. what would you think is the best way to sort the genres? i was thinking on placing one station under more genres if station is declared as multiple-genre stream but im still not sure. keep in mind that the system should be effective when the number of stations becomes bigger. oh, and feel free to leave a stream or two in comments :)