Setting up Raaga.com to work on Ubuntu 8.04 Hardy Heron

April 27, 2008 - 22:49 — webmaster

Raaga.com is a very popular online music station that has a very large collection of Indian movie and classical songs. They use real media and they have a player that requires the real media player. Now the default installation of Real Media player will not allow you play music from Raaga.com and the player popup from raaga.com will stay in the 'Initializing Player, Please Wait' and 'Loading' state permanently. There is a simple work around for this situation.

All you have to do is to follow these simple instructions.

1) Download the latest Realplayer from the HelixCommunity.org or from Real.com. We had tested with RealPlayer11Gold.bin. Remember it is the Realplayer and not the Helix Player. The file that we had downloaded and tested was
http://www.real.com/realcom/R?href=http://forms.real.com/real/player/download.html?f=unix/RealPlayer11GOLD.bin. When prompted save the file to your home folder

2) Set the executable bit of the file and then run the installer.
chmod +x RealPlayer11GOLD.bin sudo ./RealPlayer11GOLD.bin
Proceed with the installation and leave the default options as they are. If all goes well your Real Player will be installed to /opt/real/RealPlayer.

3) However there has been some directory level changes with Firefox 3 which comes with Ubuntu 8.04 and hence the Real Player plugin will not work in Firefox. You can easily fix this problem by running the following commands

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 mv /usr/lib/totem/gstreamer/libtotem-complex-plugin.so ~/.

Now check if the Real Player plugin is installed properly by typing in the following in the Firefox address bar - about:plugins. If you had followed the instructions correctly and you have Ubuntu 8.04 and have used Real Player 11 Gold you should be able to see the following in the about:plugins page

Helix DNA Plugin: RealPlayer G2 Plug-In Compatible
File name: /usr/local/RealPlayer/mozilla/nphelix.so
Helix DNA Plugin: RealPlayer G2 Plug-In Compatible version 0.4.0.626 built with gcc 3.2.0 on Jul 26 2007

4) Now go to raaga.com and see if the player is working. It should be. Have fun.

If you face any problem while setting up the player or getting it to work, do post your questions as comments and we will try to help you.

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Comments

July 1, 2008 - 01:53 — Hari (visitor)

I cant get it working

Hey,
Thanks for the post. However I am not able to see the player launched from firefox
I get this message when I tryo to play a song "Could not find an appropriate hxplay or realplay in the system path to use as an embedded player"
Any help would be appreciated

My Firefox Version
Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.9) Gecko/2008061015 Firefox/3.0

About plugins in browser:
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
My Ubuntu :
8.04 with all the updates as on Jun 30 2008

Thanks
Hari

August 13, 2008 - 23:25 — Anonymous (visitor)

Real player working with Firefox in Ubuntu

I had the same problem with firefox complaining that it couldn't find a realplay in the system path. This happened when I downloaded realplayer 11 gold from real directly. I downloaded the realplayer through the helix community forums and chose linux-2.2-libc6-gcc32-i586 as the software to download and installed it, everything seems to work fine now. I got this info from abhinay's blog at http://abhinay.wordpress.com/tag/ubuntu/

I think it has to do with the compilers/libraries that are being used to build the realplayer 11gold binfile that is available from real.

Thanks to this posting as well as abhinay to get this working.

July 1, 2008 - 02:20 — webmaster

Need more information regarding issue

Can you please type about:config in your addressbar and search for the configuration plugin.expose_full_path and then click on the value and set its value to True and then post the output of about:plugins. Did you remember to move the totem plugin out of the firefox plugins folder? Did you follow instructions exactly as given in the post?

June 12, 2008 - 18:13 — Anonymous (visitor)

Thanks, I am able to

Thanks,

I am able to initialize the player. But it is not showing any sound..

July 1, 2008 - 02:12 — webmaster

contents of about:plugins

Can you please post the contents of about:plugins here. Type about:plugins in your firefox addressbar and post the contents shown under whichever section has a Realplayer in it.

June 6, 2008 - 18:01 — R Arun Kumar (visitor)

Not working Ubuntu 8.04

I have followed the same, but not working

July 1, 2008 - 02:15 — webmaster

What are the symptoms

What are the current symptoms now? Also please post the contents of about:plugins. Type about:plugins in your firefox addressbar and post the contents shown under whichever section has a Realplayer in it.

May 27, 2008 - 18:24 — Abhinay (visitor)

Really Works !

Hey Thanks Dude !

It really works. I have tried several posts to play songs from raaga.com in linux, but, they didn't help.
This was really helpful. But, only thing i am not able to skip the song. Next/Previous buttons are not working.
Any workaround for this ?

Thanks,
Abhinay

May 15, 2008 - 23:23 — Prakash (visitor)

Thanks!

Thanks for letting us know the fix for Raaga.com :)

May 7, 2008 - 08:05 — Anonymous (visitor)

Realplayer in Ubuntu

How do you do this for Kaffeine in Kubuntu?

http://www.zyxware.com/articles/2008/04/27/setting-up-raaga-com-to-work-...

Terminal output:

mike@kubuntu:~$ cd /usr/lib/firefox-addons/plugins
mike@kubuntu:/usr/lib/firefox-addons/plugins$ sudo ln -s /opt/real/RealPlayer/mozilla/nphelix.xpt nphelix.xpt
mike@kubuntu:/usr/lib/firefox-addons/plugins$ sudo ln -s /opt/real/RealPlayer/mozilla/nphelix.xpt nphelix.xpt
ln: creating symbolic link `nphelix.xpt': File exists
mike@kubuntu:/usr/lib/firefox-addons/plugins$ sudo ln -s /opt/real/RealPlayer/mozilla/nphelix.so nphelix.so
mike@kubuntu:/usr/lib/firefox-addons/plugins$ sudo mv /usr/lib/totem/gstreamer/libtotem-complex-plugin.so ~/.
mv: cannot stat `/usr/lib/totem/gstreamer/libtotem-complex-plugin.so': No such file or directory
mike@kubuntu:/usr/lib/firefox-addons/plugins$ sudo mv /usr/lib/kaffeine/libtotem-complex-plugin.so ~/.
mv: cannot stat `/usr/lib/kaffeine/libtotem-complex-plugin.so': No such file or directory
mike@kubuntu:/usr/lib/firefox-addons/plugins$

Any help appreciated!

June 3, 2008 - 00:28 — webmaster

Setting up Raaga.com in Kubuntu

Did you try to set up Real Player as per the instructions given above? The instructions are for setting up the Real Player Plugin for Mozilla Firefox. What did you want to do with Kaffeine?