Playing XM Online in Linux

Posted 2 years, 4 months ago at 4:32 pm. 3 comments

This script, by B. Galliart, will let you play XM Radio Online in Linux. You must have curl, and either xine, gxine, totem-xine, or vlc installed with basic codecs.

Save the script as xmonline.sh, change the username and password, uncomment the player you want to use, I recommend xine (gxine, totem-xine and vlc work well also),

  1. chmod it

    2. chmod a+rx xmonline.sh

  2. Then run it from console

    3. ./xmonline.sh 22
    where 22 is the channel number.

Also, the Mozilla/Firefox plugins for gxine, vlc, or mplayer can play directly from XM Online.

3 Replies

  1. c english Jul 14th 2006

    I did what you indicated in this info, when I go to listen, I receie information that I need the current Macromedia Flash installed. What is going on. I am new to Ubuntu, I just set up a duel boot on my computer and I am trying to show it off, Can you help??

  2. Mike Aug 4th 2006

    You only need Macromedia Flash if you are using a program like mplayer of vlc with the web page. If you use the script flash is not needed.

  3. Ling Dec 30th 2006

    Please tell B. Galliart good show. I have used this on my laptops/desktops and tonight got it running on my Zaurus (pdaXrom beta3) by substituting:

    rxvt -e mplayer -playlist

    for the mplayer command.


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