Radio Tray and AutoKey

[globetrotterdk]

I would like to request that Radio Tray http://radiotray.sourceforge.net/ and AutoKey http://code.google.com/p/autokey/ are included in Salix OS. Radio Tray is "an online radio streaming player that runs on a Linux system tray. Its goal is to have the minimum interface possible, making it very straightforward to use." AutoKey is "a desktop automation utility for Linux and X11. It allows you to manage collection of scripts and phrases, and assign abbreviations and hotkeys to these. This allows you to execute a script or insert text on demand in whatever program you are using." I can recommend both of these apps, as I use them on almost a daily basis

[ElderDryas]

Any chance of getting Radio Tray (http://radiotray.sourceforge.net/) included in Salix? I have used it (back in the day on Xubuntu) and it is indeed a simple and easy way to stream net-radio stations.

EDIT: Sorry for the duplication, did not see that this had already been requested on 3 Jan 2012.

[Shador]

Merged the topics.

[globetrotterdk]

Any chance of getting Radio Tray (http://radiotray.sourceforge.net/) included in Salix? I have used it (back in the day on Xubuntu) and it is indeed a simple and easy way to stream net-radio stations.

Welcome to Salix OS
Until Radio Tray gets included in the distro, you could try to use cmus. I know it isn't as elegant a solution as Radio Tray, but cmus supports streams. The short and concise howto is here http://www.salixos.org/forum/viewtopic.php?f=16&t=3041.

[gapan]

I tried to make a package for radiotray, but unfortunately it won't work that easy. Radiotray requires that the gst-plugins-good package includes the souphttpsrc element, which means that gst-plugins-good should be built with support for libsoup. But it isn't. And my guess is that, since it's a slackware package, not a salix package, that it won't be any time soon. Libsoup is not even part of slackware.

If you really want to have radiotray working, you need to rebuild the gst-plugins-good package from slackware, with support for libsoup first. That means, you get the source files from a slackware server (ftp://ftp.slackware.org.uk/slackware/sl ... gins-good/), put them all together in a directory of your choosing and make sure you have libsoup installed first and rebuild the package using the Slackbuild.

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$ chmod +x gst-plugins-good.SlackBuild
$ fakeroot ./gst-plugins-good.SlackBuild


Install the package you just created, it should be somewhere in your /tmp

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# spkg -u --reinstall /tmp/gst-plugins-good....txz

Then you can use the following SLKBUILD to build a radiotray package.

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#Packager: George Vlahavas <vlahavas~at~gmail~dot~com>

pkgname=radiotray
pkgver=0.7.2
pkgrel=1gv
source=("http://downloads.sourceforge.net/project/radiotray/releases/radiotray-$pkgver.tar.gz")
docs=("authors" "install" "readme" "copying" "contributors" "news" )
url=http://radiotray.sourceforge.net/

slackdesc=\
(
#|-----handy-ruler------------------------------------------------------|
"radiotray (an online radio streaming player)"
"Radio Tray is an online radio streaming player that runs on a Linux"
"system tray. Its goal is to have the minimum interface possible,"
"making it very straightforward to use. Radio Tray is not a full"
"featured music player, there are plenty of excellent music players"
"already. However, there was a need for a simple application with"
"minimal interface just to listen to online radios. And that's the sole"
"purpose of Radio Tray."
)

build() {
        cd $startdir/src/$pkgname-$pkgver
        python setup.py install --prefix=/usr --root=$startdir/pkg
}

Save that as SLKBUILD somewhere in your PC and in the same directory, run

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fakeroot slkbuild -X

That will build you a package, which you can install with spkg. I didn't actually try it, but I'm guessing it will work. Make sure you install any other dependencies first too (lxml is the only that you probably don't have).

[ElderDryas]

Gapan: Thanks for the effort (and the "how to"). I guess nothing is as simple as it looks anymore

[globetrotterdk]

Thanks for investigating the issue Gapan. I think I will stick to cmus for now. Perhaps I will revert to this as I get more experience.