radio-active 2.1.2

Play any radio around the globe right from the terminal

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
• Finds nearby stations

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

Run

Run with radioactive --station [STATION_NAME]

Options

deep@lubuntu:~/Desktop$ radioactive --help
usage: radio-active [-h] [--version] [--station STATION_NAME] [--uuid STATION_UUID]
                    [--log-level LOG_LEVEL]

Play any radio around the globe right from the CLI

optional arguments:
  -h, --help            show this help message and exit
  --version, -V
  --station STATION_NAME, -S STATION_NAME
                        Specify a station name
  --uuid STATION_UUID, -U STATION_UUID
                        Specify a station UUID
  --log-level LOG_LEVEL, -L LOG_LEVEL
                        Specify log level

Argument	Note	Description	Default
--station, -S	Required ( Optional from second run)	Station name	None
--uuid, -U	Optional	ID of the station	None
--log-level, -L	Optional	Log level of the program	info

--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

Extra

You can always alias your favorite stations' name with a custom name. radio-active firsts looks for stations in your favorite list.

To add a station to your favorite station list:

1. place a file named radio-active-alias.txt under your home directory.

2. Write a new line with pattern like name=uuid. Example:

mirchi_ranbindra_sangeet=72e039a6-9ed9-4741-b45e-165eec3bec6d
bongo_net=96444e20-0601-11e8-ae97-52543be04c81

Demo

Acknowledgements

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Happy Listening