Listening to Sirius in Linux?

Listening to Sirius in Linux?

[Hart Larry]

Some weeks ago I got a good friend a Sirius Satelite Radio boombox.  Well, as a 
paying subscriber, I can listen to their music streams on a web site.  However, 
I run in to a brick wall because of java script and a media player.  Sirius 
claims they do not support or know anything about linux.  I figure if I could 
go directly to the exact urls of each of the streams, it would be fine. 
Another friend tried in windows with Jaws--and its a combo box to select the 
channel--and he did see the song titles.
So any way to listen in linux
www.sirius.com
Links 2 and 13 are for listening.
Yes, I already tried links with an i but it just ignored my enter key once I 
was at the media player.
Thanks so much in advance
Hart

Re: Listening to Sirius in Linux?

[Andor Demarteau]

sometimes links needs you to press alt+l and use the follow link or submit
form option in hte links menu.
please try links 2.1pre15 (newest beta), i FOUND THAT THE JAVASCRIPT
SUPPORT IS BETTER THEN PREVIOUS VERSIONS.
oops sorry for the caps.
Anyway, to play them, use mplayer



On Fri, 25 Jun 2004, Hart Larry wrote:

 > Some weeks ago I got a good friend a Sirius Satelite Radio boombox.  Well, as a
 > paying subscriber, I can listen to their music streams on a web site.  However,
 > I run in to a brick wall because of java script and a media player.  Sirius
 > claims they do not support or know anything about linux.  I figure if I could
 > go directly to the exact urls of each of the streams, it would be fine.
 > Another friend tried in windows with Jaws--and its a combo box to select the
 > channel--and he did see the song titles.
 > So any way to listen in linux
 > www.sirius.com
 > Links 2 and 13 are for listening.
 > Yes, I already tried links with an i but it just ignored my enter key once I
 > was at the media player.
 > Thanks so much in advance
 > Hart
 >
 >
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Re: Listening to Sirius in Linux?

[hank smith]

can xm radio work under linux? I got the xm pcr
----- Original Message -----
From: "Andor Demarteau" <ademarte@students.cs.uu.nl>
To: "Linux for blind general discussion" <blinux-list@redhat.com>
Sent: Saturday, June 26, 2004 12:51 AM
Subject: Re: Listening to Sirius in Linux?


> sometimes links needs you to press alt+l and use the follow link or submit
> form option in hte links menu.
> please try links 2.1pre15 (newest beta), i FOUND THAT THE JAVASCRIPT
> SUPPORT IS BETTER THEN PREVIOUS VERSIONS.
> oops sorry for the caps.
> Anyway, to play them, use mplayer
>
>
>
> On Fri, 25 Jun 2004, Hart Larry wrote:
>
>  > Some weeks ago I got a good friend a Sirius Satelite Radio boombox.
Well, as a
>  > paying subscriber, I can listen to their music streams on a web site.
However,
>  > I run in to a brick wall because of java script and a media player.
Sirius
>  > claims they do not support or know anything about linux.  I figure if I
could
>  > go directly to the exact urls of each of the streams, it would be fine.
>  > Another friend tried in windows with Jaws--and its a combo box to
select the
>  > channel--and he did see the song titles.
>  > So any way to listen in linux
>  > www.sirius.com
>  > Links 2 and 13 are for listening.
>  > Yes, I already tried links with an i but it just ignored my enter key
once I
>  > was at the media player.
>  > Thanks so much in advance
>  > Hart
>  >
>  >
>  > _______________________________________________
>  > Blinux-list mailing list
>  > Blinux-list@redhat.com
>  > https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/blinux-list
>  >
>
> --
> Andor Demarteau                 E-mail: ademarte@cs.uu.nl
> student computer science        www:
http://www.students.cs.uu.nl/~ademarte/
> UU based & VU guest-student     jabber,icq,msn: do ask ;)
> -----------
> chairman Stichting Studiereizen STORM www: http://www.stistusto.nl
> vice-chairman USF Studentenbelangen executive committee 2002-2003
>
>
> _______________________________________________
> Blinux-list mailing list
> Blinux-list@redhat.com
> https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/blinux-list

Re: Listening to Sirius in Linux?

[Buddy Brannan]

The short answer is--no.

I just subscribed to Sirius myself and love it! But you can't listen
under Linux. Freedombox doesn't even do it, apparently, but not sure
if it should, which is why I didn't bring it up with them. 

I've used the large full-screen player, which has each channel on a
link. That isn't the issue. You can't listen with links or lynx. You
need, not only a browser that will do javascript (which you need for a
*lot* of their site, as  lot of their submit buttons are
javascripted links), but you'll also need something that will play
what appears to be an embedded flash player stream. It isn't
RealAudio, nor is it Windows Media. I can tell you that Melanie's
system, which runs Mozill and has the non-free Flash installed, plays
the streams OK, if a little broken up. So...unfortunately, you're outa
luck. Anyway, you only get the music streams online--you can't listen
to the talk streams, which is a shame.
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