Rhythmbox – How to Set Up Multiple Libraries in Rhythmbox

Shoutcast

Shoutcast is a massive selection of individual radio stations (over 700 pages). There are so many stations that it is intimidating to even find one.

How to add Radio Stations to Rhythmbox?

• Vist Shoutcast, find your favorite radio station, right click on it and select Save Link As, Save it in your music library.

• Right click on .pls file you just downloaded and select Open with Rhythmbox.

• Alternatively, instead of saving the .pls file just copy the link location, in Rhythmbox select Radios in side bar and click on add, enter the link there and save it.

  

• 3rd option is to open the .pls file in Gedit and copy the address from there and add it to Rhythmbox.

  

Alternative:

Or just install Guayadeque. Listen and browse the complete Shoutcast collection (Over 5,700 stations) and many other radio stations right from your desktop. It's available in Ubuntu Software Center.

how to...

There are a couple of ways to edit the locations information - either graphically using dconf-editor or via the terminal using gsettings.

First the graphical way.

Install the package dconf-tools.

In the dash press Alt+F2 and type dconf-editor.

Navigate to the position shown in the picture and edit the locations field.

Note: this is a comma separated list with full path names starting with file:/// and must be defined with the [' ... ]'

Alternatively you can using gsettings from the terminal.

Get the current value of the locations field via:

gsettings get org.gnome.rhythmbox.rhythmdb locations

You should get an output similar to:

['file:///home/dad/Music', 'file:///home/dad/.ubuntuone/Purchased%20from%20Ubuntu%20One']

To set a new value of the field use the set syntax:

gsettings set org.gnome.rhythmbox.rhythmdb locations "['file:///home/dad/Music', 'file:///media/musiclibrary/mymusic']"