It became clear as one of the early contributors to the RadioTray project that it was not getting the attention it required and was probably dead. A lot of the technologies it used had moved on to newer versions and the bugs started piling up. I did my best to help users, but a new start was required.
The version here is what "I" wanted out of RadioTray.
- Better gstreamer error handling and recovery.
- Fix RadioTray's flawed bookmark format.
- Build in the only RadioTray plugin that I felt I needed, which is a shutdown timer.
- Per station/group notification icon support.
- Better parsing of the stream meta data and optionally more stream info displayed.
- A bit more attention to notification details and formatting.
- RadioTray functionality
- Theme support
- Debian packaging
- Full AppIndicator support
- No groups within groups by design to keep the interface clean.
- Volume up/down support using mouse wheel (left/right can also be used)
- Media key support
- Dbus interface for controlling Radiotray-NG and accessing stream meta data
- --play command line option for resuming playback
Icons: [http://www.iconsplace.com/] License: Creative Commons Attribution-NoDerivs 3.0 Unported
- Radiotray-NG's user-agent is created at compile time. Which means a binary created on 16.10 will report that even when run on 16.04.
A config (radiotray-ng.json) is created in your ~/.config/radiotray-ng directory with the following defaults:
{
"bookmarks" : "~/.config/radiotray-ng/bookmarks.json",
"bookmark-editor" : "rtng-bookmark-editor",
"buffer-duration" : 2,
"buffer-size" : 320000,
"compact-menu" : false,
"debug-logging" : false,
"disable-logging" : false,
"file-monitor" : true,
"file-monitor-interval" : 10,
"invert-menu" : false,
"last-station" : "",
"last-station-group" : "",
"notification-verbose" : true,
"notifications" : true,
"sleep-timer" : 30,
"split-title" : true,
"track-info-copy" : false,
"ihr-title" : true,
"tag-info-verbose" : false,
"volume-level" : 100,
"volume-step" : 1,
"volume-max-level" : 200,
"wrap-track-info" : true,
"wrap-track-info-len" : 40,
"media-key-mapping" : false,
"media-key-previous-station" : "Previous",
"media-key-next-station" : "Next",
"media-key-volume-up" : "",
"media-key-volume-down" : "",
"media-keys-old-dbus-name" : false,
"radiotray-ng-on" : "radiotray-ng-on",
"radiotray-ng-off" : "radiotray-ng-off",
"radiotray-ng-notification" : "radiotray-ng-notification",
"root-group-bottom-pos" : true
}
- Installed config will only include commonly edited entries, all others are using default values shown above.
bookmarks: location of bookmarks file
bookmark-editor: bookmark editor to launch
buffer-size: size of buffer in bytes
buffer-duration: number of seconds to buffer
compact-menu : enable/disable the use of menu separators
debug-logging: enable/disable verbose debug logging
disable-logging: enable/disable logging
file-monitor: enable/disable notifcation of bookmark file changes
file-monitor-interval: time in seconds to poll for bookmark file changes
invert-menu : menu rendered in reverse order
notification-verbose: more status information than normal
notifications: turns on/off notification messages
sleep-timer: value is in minutes
split-title: attempts to reformat the notification into title/artist
ihr-title: extra parsing for iheartradio formatting (requires split-title)
tag-info-verbose: displays in the menu stream information such as bitrate etc.
track-info-copy: enable/disable track clicking to copy into clipboard
volume-step: value used to increment/decrement the volume level
volume-max-level: maximum volume level
wrap-track-info: enable/disable the wrapping of title & artist menu text
wrap-track-info-len: maximum title & artist line length
media-key-mapping: enable the mapping of media keys to volume up/down etc. (Previous, Next, Rewind, FastForward etc.)
media-key-previous-station: media key to use for previous station within current group
media-key-next-station: media key to use for next station within current group
media-key-volume-up: media key to use for volume up
media-key-volume-down: media key to use for volume down
media-keys-old-dbus-name: force the use of old dbus name
radiotray-ng-on: installed theme icon name for "on" or path to image
radiotray-ng-off: installed theme icon name for "off" or path to image
radiotray-ng-notification: installed theme icon name for "notification" or path to image
root-group-bottom-pos: render root group stations at bottom or top of menu
- Do not edit the config while Radiotray-NG is running or your changes will be lost.
- No checks are made if a media key assignment collides with another action.
Bookmarks are defined in the following JSON format:
[
{
"group" : "group name 1",
"image" : null,
"stations" : [
{
"image" : null,
"name" : "station name",
"url" : "http://station/station.pls"
},
...
]
},
{
"group" : "group name 2",
"image" : "~/Dropbox/radiotray-ng/images/station.png",
"stations" : [
{
"image" : null,
"name" : "station name",
"url" : "http://station/station.pls",
"notifications" : false
},
...
]
},
...
]
Group with the name "root" is treated differently and is rendered at the base of the menu. A group's image specifies the notification icon to display and is inherited by all of the stations. A station with an image overrides the group image.
Use the "Preferences/Reload Bookmarks" option to see your changes.
The rt2rtng script will convert your RadioTray bookmarks.xml file. All groups within groups are moved to the root and any empty ones are removed. It's not a perfect conversion and will no doubt require some editing.
$ rt2rtng ~/.local/share/radiotray/bookmarks.xml > bookmarks.json
The Bookmarks Editor is a simple editor that enables management of your bookmarks file eliminating the need for manually editing the file. The editor will attempt to open the default bookmarks file on startup, but you can select to open another bookmarks file if desired. This provides you with the ability to manage multiple bookmark files.
The editor supports all of the typical editor operations including adding, editing and deleting of both groups and stations. Images are easily selected via standard browsing functionality. You can also arrange the groups and stations using simple drag-n-drop actions.
- Use Radiotray-NG's reload bookmarks after saving your changes.
Available commands:
get_bookmarks
get_config
get_player_state
play
play_station 'group' 'station'
play_url 'url'
previous_station
next_station
reload_bookmarks
set_volume 'level'
volume_down
volume_up
mute
stop
quit
Example:
$ qdbus com.github.radiotray_ng /com/github/radiotray_ng com.github.radiotray_ng.get_player_state
{
"artist" : "Suspense",
"bitrate" : "24 kb/s",
"codec" : "MPEG-1 Layer 3 (MP3)",
"group" : "Old Time Radio",
"image" : "radiotray-ng-notification",
"mute" : false,
"state" : "playing",
"station" : "AM 1710 Antioch OTR",
"title" : "Jul 15, 1948: Summer Night w/Ida Lupino",
"url" : "http://radio.macinmind.com/listen.m3u",
"volume" : "15"
}
Download a release or clone the repo and build the latest Debian package.
https://github.com/ebruck/radiotray-ng/releases
Install Appindicator extension if not running Ubuntu.
https://extensions.gnome.org/extension/615/appindicator-support/
$ dnf install radiotray-ng
Install these packages:
lsb-release libcurl4-openssl-dev libjsoncpp-dev libxdg-basedir-dev libnotify-dev libboost-filesystem-dev libgstreamer1.0-dev libboost-log-dev libboost-program-options-dev libgtk-3-dev libnotify-dev lsb-release libbsd-dev libncurses5-dev libglibmm-2.4-dev cmake
# before ubuntu 22.04:
libappindicator3-dev libwxgtk3.0-gtk3-dev libwxgtk3.0-gtk3-0v5
# For Ubuntu 22.04 install:
libayatana-appindicator3-dev libwxgtk3.0-gtk3-dev libwxgtk3.0-gtk3-0v5
# For Ubuntu 23.10 and newer install:
libayatana-appindicator3-dev libwxgtk3.2-dev
$ git clone https://github.com/ebruck/radiotray-ng.git
$ cd radiotray-ng
$ mkdir build
$ cd build
$ cmake .. -DCMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=Release
$ make package
$ sudo dpkg -i ./radiotray-ng_x.y.z_<distro>_<i386|amd64>.deb
$ sudo apt-get install -f
$ git clone https://github.com/ebruck/radiotray-ng.git
$ cd radiotray-ng
$ mkdir build
$ cd build
$ cmake .. -DBUILD_TESTS=ON -DCMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=Debug
$ make package
$ sudo dpkg -i ./radiotray-ng_x.y.z_<distro>_<i386|amd64>.deb
$ sudo apt-get install -f
Install these packages:
redhat-lsb cmake libcurl-devel boost-devel wxGTK3-devel jsoncpp-devel gstreamer1-devel libxdg-basedir-devel libbsd-devel libappindicator-gtk3-devel libnotify-devel glibmm24-devel rpm-build
$ git clone https://github.com/ebruck/radiotray-ng.git
$ cd radiotray-ng
$ mkdir build
$ cd build
$ cmake .. -DCMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=Release
$ make package
$ sudo dnf install ./radiotray-ng_x.y.z_<distro>_<i386|x86_64>.rpm