Using VLC player to play Internet Radio

Agent M sent me a link to a very good online western classical radio site. In order to play the radio inside Firefox on Ubuntu the gstreamer plugins are required. The other option is to play it through VLC player.

Install VLC player
%% sudo aptitude install vlc

Open the link in VLC, Media->Open Network, enter the URL and you are good to go.

To avoid this step every time, create a launcher.

1. Right click on the desktop, "Create launcher"
2. Give it a name, "My Radio"
3. In the command use the following /usr/bin/vlc "URL"
4. You can specify a tool-tip comment as well, "ABCD Radio"
5. Click on the icon and select the icon of your choice form /usr/share/icons/hicolor/scalable

Enjoy the music