conrad

Console app to play internet radio streams.

Contents

1. Introduction
2. Building conrad
3. Running conrad
4. Release Notes

1. Introduction

Conrad is a console app to play shoutcast internet radio streams.

Goals

• Minimalistic console-UI.
• Glitch-free playback.
• Low memory footprint.
• OS/Distro agnostic.

2. Building conrad

Dependencies

• libfmodex (bundled)

  FmodEx libraries are part of FMOD Sound System.
  Copyright Firelight Technologies.
  www.fmod.org

• libcurl

  Fetching and installing libcurl:
  On Ubuntu 11.10, the following command does the job
  sudo apt-get install libcurl4-gnutls-dev

To build conrad, execute make in the root of the repository. Ensure that the aforementioned dependencies are satisfied. Checkout Makefile for more details.

3. Running conrad

./conrad -s <station-url>

conrad saves the encoded audio stream of the current session in a local file "wave.dat" in the current directory.

4. Release Notes

• v0.1 (Initial Commit)

  Currently does NOT support AAC streams.