RADIO-ACTIVE

Play any radios around the globe right from your terminal

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Features

• Supports more than 30K stations !!
• Saves last station information
• Favorite stations (Aliasing)
• Supports user-added stations
• Looks minimal and user-friendly
• Runs on Raspberry-Pi
• Finds nearby stations
• Discovers stations by genre
• Discovers stations by language
• I'm feeling lucky ! Play Random stations
• No external media player dependency!

See my progress here

External Dependency

It needs FFmpeg to be installed on your system in order to play the audio

on Ubuntu based system >= 20.04 Run

sudo apt update
sudo apt install ffmpeg

For other systems including windows see the above link

Installing FFmpeg

FFmpeg is required for this program to work correctly. Install FFmpeg by following these steps :-

• On Linux - https://www.tecmint.com/install-ffmpeg-in-linux/
• On Windows - https://www.wikihow.com/Install-FFmpeg-on-Windows

Install

Just run: pip3 install --upgrade radio-active

I encourage you to install with pipx: pipx install radio-active

Run

Run with radioactive --station [STATION_NAME] or as simply radio -U [UUID] ⚡

Tips

1. Use a modern terminal emulator, otherwise the UI might break! (gets too ugly sometimes)
2. On windows, instead of default Command Prompt, use the new Windows Terminal or web-based emulators like hyper,Cmdr,Terminus etc. for better UI
3. Let the app run for atleast 5 seconds (not a serious issue though, for better performance)

Demo

Options

--station, -S : Expects a station name to be played (if not provided it will try to get the last played station). Example: "pehla nasha" , pehla_nasha, bbc_radio

--uuid,-U : When station names are too long or confusing (or multiple results for the same name) use the station's uuid to play . --uuid gets the greater priority than --station. Example: 96444e20-0601-11e8-ae97-52543be04c81

--log-level, -L : don't need to specify unless you are developing it. info , warning , error , debug

-F : Add current station to your favorite list. Example: -F my_fav_1

-A: Add any stations to your list. You can add stations that are not currently available on our API. When adding a new station enter a name and direct URL to the audio stream.

Changes

see CHANGELOG

Community

Share you favorite list with our community 🌐 ➡️ Here

Your favorite list .radio-active-alias is under your home directory as a hidden file :)

Extra

If you ever face a situation where radio-active quits but the audio (ffplay) runs in the background. Kill the process ID (PID) of ffplay. Run ps -al get the PID of ffplay and kill [PID]. I know you Know that :)

Support

Acknowledgements

Happy Listening