Installing AlienBBC on Linux

AlienBBC is a plugin for slimserver, the software platform used by the Slim Devices line of networked music players.

It is primarily designed to allow the user to listen to BBC Radio streams but also adds the ability to listen to any RealAudio stream. Currently, it is capable of parsing and playing the following resources:

All the main BBC Radio 'Live' streams
The BBC 'Listen Again' Audio on Demand content
All Available BBC Radio 2 Content
All Available BBC Radio 4 Content
The BBC7 Audio Archive
The Available BBC Local Radio Stations
Radio 5 Live Audio Archive
Some of the ABC Content (Australian Broadcasting Corporation)
A number of other streams, suggested by AlienBBC Users
For a complete list of stations see here


These instructions assume you are installing on to SlimServer V6.2 or later.

1. Download the linux archive http://www.x2systems.com/alienbbc/alienbbc-linux-v1.06_6.2-3.tar.gz.
   
2. Extract this tar file into the main slimserver directory. This is usually: /usr/local/slimserver.
   
3. Ensure that /usr/local/slimserver/Bin/mplayer.sh is executable by the user 'slimserver'.
   
4. Ensure that mplayer is installed and available on the path for slimserver (as for previous AlienBBC versions) and has the relevant codecs available.If you need help with installing mplayer this may help: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=17015.
   If using mplayer pre7 or later edit slimserver-convert.conf to comment out the lines that follow "# Default mplayer up to pre6". Then uncomment the lines that follow "# Alternative for mplayer pre7 or later".
   
5. Restart slimserver and see if AlienBBC appears on the web page.
   If you have trouble, Run './slimserver.pl -d_plugin' in a shell from /usr/local/slimserver to check for error messages at startup.
   

Extra Information

For detailed instructions on installing on linux see ripcaster's website http://www.ripcaster.co.uk/node