gSpinner
May 2004 - Okay folks, looks like radio@netscape has made another
radical shift towards Windows-only compliance. The URL we're using
to access their stream URLs is no longer working and will require
some sleuthing to fix. If anyone out there wants to muck around
with the spinner web pages to find the new dynamic address to send
a channel number to, I'd appreciate it. (Note: You'll need to send
a user-agent belonging to Windows <grrrrr> or they bounce you
to some stupid we <heart> Windows page.)
So, download
away but it's going to segfault.
What is gSpinner?
gSpinner is a simple program that allows users of non-Windows operating systems to access the streams available from Spinner.com (which recently rebranded itself as Radio@Netscape.com).It's best described as a hack, since it relies upon trplayer and RealPlayer to play music, and does little other than emulate the spinner lite interface to retrieve track information. But on the plus side, it doesn't require the footprint of a browser and java.
Who's responsible for gSpinner?
gSpinner is currently being maintained by Pratik Dave who you can mail at gspinner@pratikdave.com.It was originally conceived and authored by Jeremy Latt (jlatt at faceprint dot com).
Where do I get gSpinner?
The latest version is 2.4 which fixes a few bugs.| Name | Description | Date of Release |
|---|---|---|
| gspinner-2.4.tar.gz | Working again | Feb 2004 |
| gspinner-2.3.tar.gz | Autoconf script provided, bug fixes | May 2003 |
| gspinner-2.2.tar.gz | requires GTK+-2.0 to fix a bug | May 2003 |
| gspinner-2.1.tar.gz | Updated channel/genre listing | May 2003 |
| gspinner-2.0.tar.gz | Last Release by Jeremy | August 2002 |
| gspinner-1.0.tar.gz | April 2001 | |
| gspinner-1.0beta1.tar.gz | April 2001 | |
| gspinner-0.2.tar.gz | March 2001 | |
| gspinner-0.1.tar.gz | Initial Release | February 2001 |
What do I need to run gSpinner?
Quite a lot actually...You'll need a recent (version 7 or greater) version of RealPlayer: The Unix Version is available here
As well as the command line interface to RealPlayer: TrPlayer
And the CURL lib for fetching web pages: libcurl
I'm investigating integration of some of the RealPlayer features from the SDK into gSpinner directly to avoid the footprint of calling out to trplayer.