Hey folks, i have a good news for music lovers. I have just got a workaround to play songs from Raaga.com in Linux.
I tried with Ubuntu Hardy Heron 8.04 & Firefox 3.0 b 5. I followed this article http://www.zyxware.com/articles/2008/04/27/setting-up-raaga-com-to-work-on-ubuntu-8-04-hardy-heron . Credit goes to that article.
I guess, /usr/lib/totem/gstreamer/libtotem-complex-plugin.so plugin caused a problem for raaga player. After removing this plugin, it was working.
This plugin, (remove this plug-in)
Helix DNA Plugin: RealPlayer G2 Plug-In Compatible (compatible; Totem)
File name: libtotem-complex-plugin.so
The Totem 2.22.1 plugin handles video and audio streams.
MIME Type Description Suffixes Enabled
audio/x-pn-realaudio-plugin RealAudio document rpm Yes
Here is how,
Download the latest Realplayer from here http://forms.helixcommunity.org/helix/builds/?category=realplay-current And save it to desktop,
Select Platform: linux-2.2-libc6-gcc32-i586 > RealPlayer (bin)
(Or you can also download from here – http://www.real.com/linux)
[ I suggest you to uninstall realplayer from your Linux if it is already installed, sudo apt-get purge realplayer ]
Install the RealPlayer,
- cd Desktop/
- chmod +x realplay-10.1.0.4350-linux-2.2-libc6-gcc32-i586.bin
Here, change the realplay-10.1.0.4350-linux-2.2-libc6-gcc32-i586.bin with the filename that you have downloaded.
- sudo ./realplay-10.1.0.4350-linux-2.2-libc6-gcc32-i586.bin
Set Plugins,
- cd /usr/lib/firefox-addons/plugins
- sudo ln -s /opt/real/RealPlayer/mozilla/nphelix.xpt nphelix.xpt
- sudo ln -s /opt/real/RealPlayer/mozilla/nphelix.so nphelix.so
- sudo rm /usr/lib/totem/gstreamer/libtotem-complex-plugin.so
Restart Firefox,
Now enjoy the music. 
http://raaga.com/channels/telugu/top10.asp
If you still have any problems please let me know, i ‘ll try to help you out.
Playing Raaga.com,
This is my about:plugins page on Firefox.
Installed plugins Find more information about browser plugins at mozilla.org. Help for installing plugins is available from plugindoc.mozdev.org. Helix DNA Plugin: RealPlayer G2 Plug-In Compatible File name: nphelix.so Helix DNA Plugin: RealPlayer G2 Plug-In Compatible version 0.4.0.4005 built with gcc 3.4.3 on Feb 25 2008 MIME Type Description Suffixes Enabled audio/x-pn-realaudio-plugin RealPlayer Plugin Metafile rpm Yes Shockwave Flash File name: libflashplayer.so Shockwave Flash 9.0 r124 MIME Type Description Suffixes Enabled application/x-shockwave-flash Shockwave Flash swf Yes application/futuresplash FutureSplash Player spl Yes Default Plugin File name: libnullplugin.so The default plugin handles plugin data for mimetypes and extensions that are not specified and facilitates downloading of new plugins. MIME Type Description Suffixes Enabled * All types .* No Demo Print Plugin for unix/linux File name: libunixprintplugin.so The demo print plugin for unix. MIME Type Description Suffixes Enabled application/x-print-unix-nsplugin Demo Print Plugin for Unix/Linux .pnt Yes iTunes Application Detector File name: librhythmbox-itms-detection-plugin.so This plug-in detects the presence of iTunes when opening iTunes Store URLs in a web page with Firefox. MIME Type Description Suffixes Enabled application/itunes-plugin Yes Totem Web Browser Plugin 2.22.1 File name: libtotem-basic-plugin.so The Totem 2.22.1 plugin handles video and audio streams. MIME Type Description Suffixes Enabled application/x-ogg - ogg Yes application/ogg Ogg multimedia ogg Yes audio/ogg Ogg Audio oga Yes audio/x-ogg Ogg Audio ogg Yes video/ogg Ogg Video ogv Yes video/x-ogg Ogg Video ogg Yes application/annodex - anx Yes audio/annodex - axa Yes video/annodex - axv Yes video/mpeg MPEG video mpg, mpeg, mpe Yes audio/wav WAV audio wav Yes audio/x-wav WAV audio wav Yes audio/mpeg MP3 audio mp3 Yes application/x-nsv-vp3-mp3 NullSoft video nsv Yes video/flv Flash video flv Yes VLC Multimedia Plugin (compatible Totem 2.22.1) File name: libtotem-cone-plugin.so The Totem 2.22.1 plugin handles video and audio streams. MIME Type Description Suffixes Enabled application/x-vlc-plugin unknown Yes application/vlc unknown Yes video/x-google-vlc-plugin unknown Yes Windows Media Player Plug-in 10 (compatible; Totem) File name: libtotem-gmp-plugin.so The Totem 2.22.1 plugin handles video and audio streams. MIME Type Description Suffixes Enabled application/x-mplayer2 AVI video avi, wma, wmv Yes video/x-ms-asf-plugin ASF video asf, wmv Yes video/x-msvideo AVI video asf, wmv Yes video/x-ms-asf ASF video asf Yes video/x-ms-wmv Windows Media video wmv Yes video/x-wmv Windows Media video wmv Yes video/x-ms-wvx Microsoft ASX playlist wmv Yes video/x-ms-wm ASF video wmv Yes application/x-ms-wms Windows Media video wms Yes application/asx Microsoft ASX playlist asx Yes audio/x-ms-wma Windows Media audio wma Yes DivX® Web Player File name: libtotem-mully-plugin.so DivX Web Player version 1.4.0.233 MIME Type Description Suffixes Enabled video/divx AVI video divx Yes QuickTime Plug-in 7.2.0 File name: libtotem-narrowspace-plugin.so The Totem 2.22.1 plugin handles video and audio streams. MIME Type Description Suffixes Enabled video/quicktime QuickTime video mov Yes video/mp4 MPEG-4 video mp4 Yes image/x-macpaint MacPaint Bitmap image pntg Yes image/x-quicktime QuickTime image pict, pict1, pict2 Yes video/x-m4v MPEG-4 video m4v Yes GCJ Web Browser Plugin (using IcedTea) 1.0 File name: gcjwebplugin.so The GCJ Web Browser Plugin (using IcedTea) executes Java applets. MIME Type Description Suffixes Enabled application/x-java-vm IcedTea class,jar Yes application/x-java-applet IcedTea class,jar Yes application/x-java-applet;version=1.1 IcedTea class,jar Yes application/x-java-applet;version=1.1.1 IcedTea class,jar Yes application/x-java-applet;version=1.1.2 IcedTea class,jar Yes application/x-java-applet;version=1.1.3 IcedTea class,jar Yes application/x-java-applet;version=1.2 IcedTea class,jar Yes application/x-java-applet;version=1.2.1 IcedTea class,jar Yes application/x-java-applet;version=1.2.2 IcedTea class,jar Yes application/x-java-applet;version=1.3 IcedTea class,jar Yes application/x-java-applet;version=1.3.1 IcedTea class,jar Yes application/x-java-applet;version=1.4 IcedTea class,jar Yes application/x-java-applet;version=1.4.1 IcedTea class,jar Yes application/x-java-applet;version=1.4.2 IcedTea class,jar Yes application/x-java-applet;version=1.5 IcedTea class,jar Yes application/x-java-applet;version=1.6 IcedTea class,jar Yes application/x-java-applet;jpi-version=1.6.0_00 IcedTea class,jar Yes application/x-java-bean IcedTea class,jar Yes application/x-java-bean;version=1.1 IcedTea class,jar Yes application/x-java-bean;version=1.1.1 IcedTea class,jar Yes application/x-java-bean;version=1.1.2 IcedTea class,jar Yes application/x-java-bean;version=1.1.3 IcedTea class,jar Yes application/x-java-bean;version=1.2 IcedTea class,jar Yes application/x-java-bean;version=1.2.1 IcedTea class,jar Yes application/x-java-bean;version=1.2.2 IcedTea class,jar Yes application/x-java-bean;version=1.3 IcedTea class,jar Yes application/x-java-bean;version=1.3.1 IcedTea class,jar Yes application/x-java-bean;version=1.4 IcedTea class,jar Yes application/x-java-bean;version=1.4.1 IcedTea class,jar Yes application/x-java-bean;version=1.4.2 IcedTea class,jar Yes application/x-java-bean;version=1.5 IcedTea class,jar Yes application/x-java-bean;version=1.6 IcedTea class,jar Yes application/x-java-bean;jpi-version=1.6.0_00 IcedTea class,jar Yes Helix DNA Plugin: RealPlayer G2 Plug-In Compatible File name: nphelix.so Helix DNA Plugin: RealPlayer G2 Plug-In Compatible version 0.4.0.633 built with gcc 4.2.3 on Apr 1 2008 MIME Type Description Suffixes Enabled audio/x-pn-realaudio-plugin RealPlayer Plugin Metafile rpm Yes
3 Comments
Many use mplayer plugin for firefox. This plugins plays well wmp streaming files as well as realplayer streaming files. But the mplayer’s realplayer plugin fails to load the tracks on raaga. Even if we do the steps mentioned in this page, its wont work if mplayer is present. Therefore, delete the mplayerplug-in-rm files from /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins to make raaga tracks play.
Also, there is no need to do such complicated steps to get realmedia play in ur browser. Remove mplayer plugin for mozilla if u already installed it. Then go to raaga.com. Firefox will automatically inform u of missing plugins and propose u few Realmedia plugins. Choose Helix and there u go. If after this, u still require mplayer plugins for streaming other sites, do the steps i mentioned above.
Shrikant, Thanks for the comment.