Simple online listening

There are many free streaming radio stations but most want you to listen via their web page media players. This involves advertising in its many forms, visual and aural. I prefer to use a simple console based bash script that eliminates the garbage by invoking native Linux utilities that don’t eat up processor and video resources. Something like…

mpg123 --control http://109.123.116.202:8022/

…that produces only music.

Google searches do not result in any meaningful hits on such broadcasts. Can anyone suggest where I might find a list of useful stream addresses?

Thanks in advance.

On 2014-07-12 11:46, ionmich wrote:

> …that produces only music.
>
> Google searches do not result in any meaningful hits on such broadcasts.
> Can anyone suggest where I might find a list of useful stream addresses?

I use “streamtuner2”. It is a bit obsolete and some modules are broken:
AFAIK, only the “xiph.org” module works almost properly (after telling
it to reload the list). Searching for a particular station is really
cumbersome, but once you find it, actually listening to it works.

What “streamtuner2” does is launch another application that does the
real media download and playing, which you configure. I use “audacious”,
very low resource impact. Streamtuner can remain loaded, but it is not
needed till you want to click and select another station.

There is a new streamtuner something project, but it is not functional,
last time I tried.


Cheers / Saludos,

Carlos E. R.
(from 13.1 x86_64 “Bottle” at Telcontar)

On 2014-07-12 15:03, Carlos E. R. wrote:
> On 2014-07-12 11:46, ionmich wrote:
>
>> …that produces only music.
>>
>> Google searches do not result in any meaningful hits on such broadcasts.
>> Can anyone suggest where I might find a list of useful stream addresses?
>
> I use “streamtuner2”.

Correction.

The one that works for me is the first version, streamtuner 0.99.99. The
streamtuner 2 I can not make work.

> What “streamtuner2” does is launch another application that does the
> real media download and playing, which you configure. I use “audacious”,
> very low resource impact.

Configured as “audacious %q” on prefrences, listen to a stream.


Cheers / Saludos,

Carlos E. R.
(from 13.1 x86_64 “Bottle” at Telcontar)

Following your advice I found an openSUSE streamtuner rpm on sourceforge. Installing it was easy, and I am now listening to one of the xiph.org selctions. Thanks for the help.

On 2014-07-13 18:26, ionmich wrote:

> Following your advice I found an openSUSE streamtuner rpm on
> sourceforge. Installing it was easy, and I am now listening to one of
> the xiph.org selctions. Thanks for the help.

It is on packman… no need to go searching around.


Cheers / Saludos,

Carlos E. R.
(from 13.1 x86_64 “Bottle” at Telcontar)

openSUSE 42.1

Has anyone been able to make streamtuner2 installed from Packman work?

On Sun 24 Jul 2016 02:56:01 PM CDT, ionmich wrote:

openSUSE 42.1

Has anyone been able to make streamtuner2 installed from Packman work?

Hi
The packman version is way out of date… (probably should be deleted).

Try the OBS version;
https://software.opensuse.org/package/streamtuner2?search_term=streamtuner2

http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/multimedia:/apps/openSUSE_Leap_42.1/


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Many thanks! You have no idea how many doors this has opened. I went to openSUSE Software and used the home:ecsos 1 Click Install. It installed a total of 80 packages. I ran it from a console. “top” showed konsole using 100% of the processor. Pretty much of a hog. It does find available streams but many do not play. HOWEVER if I right-click on a listed found site I can save it as a file that contains the URL address. Then I can access the stream using mpg123 or mplayer which are much more efficient. Once I have all the URL’s I want I am going to uninstall all 80 files.

Many thanks again.

Hi
You should grab the one from multimedia:apps the other is just a linked package build, better to get direct. :wink: They are all just python files, I’m sure they don’t use much space…?

PS, just installed here, works fine no excessive cpu usage…?

Following your suggestion I deleted the 80 files previously installed and re-installed using the above 1 Click Install. Streamtuner2 started but would not play anything. Starting it from a console told me it was missing Audacious. Once installed it worked like a charm giving me many more functioning streams. I can definitely recommend it for anyone interested in international music appreciation.

Thanks again.