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Radion, an internet radio CLI client, written in Bash. (lemmy.world)

submitted 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) by christos to c/[email protected]

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radion is an internet radio CLI client, written in Bash.

https://gitlab.com/christosangel/radion

Radion can be customized as far as the station selecting program is concerned. The user can choose between:

read

read

fzf

fzf

rofi

rofi

dmenu

dmenu

Update: Introduced new feature: customizing prompt text for fzf dmenu and rofi.

Update: MacOS support added now thanks to Andrea Schäfer

Also, I was forced by my daughter to add some anime radio stations...

Update: Recording functionality added, with the use of another (you guessed it) bash script

icy

Also options in read as Preferred selector are also case insensitive.

Any feedback is appreciated!

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[–] [email protected] 51 points 11 months ago (1 children)

In bash? Impressive!

[+] folkrav 39 points 11 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (5 children)

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[–] [email protected] 12 points 11 months ago (1 children)

That’s why it’s impressive. It’s not easy.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 11 months ago

Everything is not pure bash here, it's a radio frontend for mpv. It is also using sed, awk... A standard bash use case actually.

[–] Dran_Arcana 10 points 11 months ago (1 children)

My entire homelab env is written in "pure bash". Bare metal deployments, creation, build, deployment, update, and backup, of docker containers (which are also just convenience wrappers around other pure bash projects of mine.). Etc...

I do it because I got sick of losing data, work, workflow or convenience to black boxes I didn't create myself. Hell, even with my third party projects like Plex I have a lot of bash automation around extracting playlists from the internal sqlite db, etc. It really shifts your perspective on what's possible when you build things by hand yourself.

[–] tdawg 5 points 11 months ago

Not to mention the tool isn't meant to be anything more than glue between other programs

[–] [email protected] 3 points 11 months ago

Keep in mind that what you find painful, some people find fun :)

[–] HexesofVexes 12 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Well, I know what I'll be using to listen to my radio stations from now on. Really neat project!

Also, it doesn't pick up user defined tags because it's looking in the wrong place for them!

Row 114:

Should be

[–] christos 10 points 11 months ago

Excellent catch! This one slipped through! I just fixed the bug, thank you very much!

I am happy you like it!

[–] [email protected] 11 points 11 months ago (1 children)

This looks crazy promising for us sxmo users ... I'll def check this out.

[–] christos 6 points 11 months ago (1 children)

I must admit I had to look sxmo up...

thx!

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago

How can we connect... I'm having weird graphical issues.... But I might be drunk and missing something. Tomorrow morning I'll send a video

[–] [email protected] 8 points 11 months ago

Very cool. You might want to crosspost this to c/bash on lemmy.ml

[–] [email protected] 5 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Unrelated but, in case it's not dyslexia, it's "customize" not "costumize". It comes from "custom" not "costume".

[–] christos 1 points 11 months ago

You are right, lapsus calami...

[–] [email protected] 4 points 11 months ago (3 children)

No metal, blues, or dnb option?

[–] christos 6 points 11 months ago

Through the script you could go to https://www.radio-browser.info/search?page=1&order=clickcount&reverse=true&hidebroken=true&tagList=metal, pick the stations you fancy and headbang yourself unconscious... 🎸 🤘

[–] christos 5 points 11 months ago

De gustibus et coloribus...

Each user can create add and enjoy any tag and station they like!

[–] [email protected] 2 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

Hmm soma has that

[–] [email protected] 4 points 11 months ago

Awesome :) I think I shall set this up in Termux later for one more on the go music option.

[–] christos 3 points 11 months ago

Update: Recording functionality added, with the use of another (you guessed it) bash script

icy

Also options in read as Preferred selector are also case insensitive.

Any feedback is appreciated!

[+] [email protected] -6 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Just because you can doesn't mean you should.

[–] christos 27 points 11 months ago (2 children)

Of course, next time I feel like writing a script, I will make sure that I let you know first, and get your approval.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 11 months ago (1 children)

respectfully, why did you write it in bash? for the challenge?

[–] christos 5 points 11 months ago (1 children)

This script could might as well be an one-liner. It was simple and easy.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Yeah right, that's what my co-worker said writing the most obscure bash scripts... *looks at code Ah, it is easy and well structured indeed. Nice :-) .

[–] christos 2 points 11 months ago (1 children)

I know this feeling! However this script in its essence is quite simple...

[–] [email protected] 0 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Maybe simple to Chris Angel and his magic.

[–] christos 1 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Try this, it is less pretty, but in essence, the same:

cat ~/.cache/radion/stations.txt |fzf|awk '{print $1}'|xargs mpv

[–] [email protected] 2 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Sorry, I was mainly trying to say, "Good job, it's impressive!" Your name is close to the name of a famous magician, so I was referring to your code as magic. Bit of a dumb joke.

[–] christos 2 points 11 months ago

Hey, I am glad you like it ;)

[–] [email protected] 0 points 11 months ago (1 children)

That's the least you can do.

[–] christos 1 points 11 months ago (1 children)

I like how people I don't know insist on telling me what to do. Actually, I like the part where I ignore them.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Dude, I was trying to be funny. Feel absolutely free to ignore me.

[–] christos 1 points 11 months ago

Oh, no problem 😀