Radio is a small command line wrapper around mpc for listening to internet radio streams with Mplayer, MPD or Chromecast (via Castnow). The main reason I wrote it is to have command-line completion for my internet radio bookmarks.
git clone $REPO_URL
cp radio/bin/radio /usr/local/bin
cp radio/bash_completion.d/radio /etc/bash_completion.d
cp radio/dots/radio ~/.radio
radio can be installed by bash-get
bash-get install github.com/werkshy/radio
By default radio will use mplayer for playback. See the configuration info below for how to enable MPD or Chromecast instead.
List all configured stations
radio
radio list
Play a station (tab completion available)
radio STATION
Stop playing
radio stop
Edit ~/.radio. The format is
staion-name: url
Station URLs can be playlists or streams, typically shoutcast streams.
The default playback method if installed is mplayer.
If $MPD_HOST is set, the playback method will be mpc. You can set this environment variable if radio is run on the same host as mpd:
MPD_HOST=localhost
To use Chromecast, install Castnow via npm:
npm install castnow
Then set the name of your chromecast as an environment variable
export CAST_DEVICE='Living_Room' # Note, spaces in device names are not
# handled, rename your device via the
# mobile app.
$CAST_DEVICE will override $MPD_HOST and cause radio to playback via Chromecast.
I tend to set up bash aliases to configure my different locations, e.g.
alias lr='export CAST_DEVICE=Living_Room; export MPD_HOST=rpi'
alias l='unset CAST_DEVICE; unset MPD_HOST' # local playback
If you have a DI premium account, you can add a stream like this:
di-ambient: http://listen.di.fm/premium/ambient.pls?listen_key=YOUR_DI_KEY