[Rhythmbox-devel] Spider element

[Luca Ferretti <elle uca libero it>]

A small quote from http://www.osnews.com/printer.php?news_id=5066

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Fedora has also bundled something called Rhythmbox version 0.5.3 to play
radio station music and other types (vorbis). I fired it up and tried to
connect to Digitally Imported (Netherlands) but it popped up an error
'failed to create spider element, check your installation'. So I checked
the properties for that stream, and they were listed as
http://213.73.255.244:8000/, I copied and pasted that address into
Mozilla and it showed me a U ShoutCast D.N.A.S Status page saying the
stream was up and with 43 of 300 users listening, so why couldn't I hear
anything. It quickly dawned on me that once again I needed a plug-in to
listen to these online radio installations, the help files included with
Rhythmbox stated that the player plays MP3, FLAC or OGG/Vorbis files,
but didn't mention where I could add the ability to play MP3 streams. It
would be useful if Rhythmbox included a message like the one in XMMS
detailing that this MP3 support is not included, rather than having
users trying to figure out what a 'spider element' is.
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