-= Great radios for you developers and pupinians! =-

[takenp]

Hello everyone!

I managed to fix radio playlists for the great Simple GTK Radio app and if you are on Fossapup64 of @666philb you have got it already. ---> viewtopic.php?f=40&t=88

But if you are on some other Pup (as me being still on Tahrpup) you should by no means grab those playlists! I fixed all broken links so that 99% of radio stations now sound successfully! Second I added a play-list with 'Soma fm' radio-streams (there are plenty of them of different styles) It is great independent online radio with a really cool staff. If you need some nice music while coding you get it

On default playlist I put some really cool stations like Arctic Outpost or Ancient radio with all time music. There are also playlists for Jazz, Classic music and all of BBC as well as some other.

Finally if you prefer to use another player (as I do preferring deadbeef) you may just copy stream link of the radio you liked and use it in your player.

So here is .pet with playlists. (if you don't have Simple GTK Radio just unpack it or find installed files in /root/.config/simplegtkradio/)

[mikewalsh]

@takenp :-

Thanks for this. For the first time ever, I've taken a good look at how the playlists are put together. Using the 'Favourites List' I download from my RadioTunes a/c as a .pls file, I've now added a RadioTunes playlist to SimpleGTKRadio. Yes!

I usually play this through DeadBeef, 'cos it has such a brilliant equalizer. However, experimenting shows that pEqualizer works fine, IF you make sure it's already open BEFORE you open your player.

I always used to open it afterwards.....

Anyway; these things need periodic updating. Radio stations will from time to time change URLs without warning, and what d'you end up with? Broken links....

Cheers..!

Mike.

[Jasper]

I spent a bit of time today trying to get the record function to work correctly within the application and found out that Streamripper only works with some servers eg IceCast and AAC streams. The mp3 streams failed.

Unfortunately for me the BBC no longer use these.

It is a shame as Streamripper does work quite well in my tests. It records the tracks individually and gives null tracks for the dialogue in between tracks.

Reading up on the commands there is a User Agent option but I tried a few eg browsers, IPhone and tablets but the servers reject the connection.

Also, the configuration file did not like me changing the Streamripper additional variables so had to stick with the default. However it works fine usually terminal.

Found this list for the BBC with options for non-UK and variable bitrates here:

h**ps://gist.github.com/bpsib/67089b959e4fa898af69fea59ad74bc3

[spiritwild]

On the topic of radio.
Found this the other day. has a 1000 or so streams from U K & I R E L A N D from http://www.radiofeeds.co.uk/hifi.asp

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while :
do
printf "==================================================================\n"
printf "\n"
printf " ####     #    ####   #   ###   #####  #####  #####  ####    ###  \n"
printf " #   #   # #   #   #  #  #   #  #      #      #      #   #  #     \n"
printf " #   #  #   #  #   #  #  #   #  ####   ####   ####   #   #   ###  \n"
printf " ####   #####  #   #  #  #   #  #      #      #      #   #      # \n"
printf " #  #   #   #  #   #  #  #   #  #      #      #      #   #  #   # \n"
printf " #   #  #   #  ####   #   ###   #      #####  #####  ####    ###  \n"
printf "\n"
printf "====================  U K  &  I R E L A N D  =====================\n"
printf "\n"
printf "'list' to list station codes. 'quit' to leave. 'q' to stop stream.\n"
printf "\n"
read -p "Enter lsn.to shortcode: " lsn
case $lsn in
quit) break;;
list) curl http://lsn.to/dir/;;
*) mplayer -prefer-ipv4 http://lsn.to/$lsn
esac
done

[Jasper]

@spiritwild

Great find

Is there a way of downloading all the url's in one time?

Also, the code/script(?) that you shared, what does it do?

I using Fossapup64 and that has mpv not mplayer installed.

[user1234]

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while :
do
printf "==================================================================\n"
printf "\n"
printf " ####     #    ####   #   ###   #####  #####  #####  ####    ###  \n"
printf " #   #   # #   #   #  #  #   #  #      #      #      #   #  #     \n"
printf " #   #  #   #  #   #  #  #   #  ####   ####   ####   #   #   ###  \n"
printf " ####   #####  #   #  #  #   #  #      #      #      #   #      # \n"
printf " #  #   #   #  #   #  #  #   #  #      #      #      #   #  #   # \n"
printf " #   #  #   #  ####   #   ###   #      #####  #####  ####    ###  \n"
printf "\n"
printf "====================  U K  &  I R E L A N D  =====================\n"
printf "\n"
printf "'list' to list station codes. 'quit' to leave. 'q' to stop stream.\n"
printf "\n"
read -p "Enter lsn.to shortcode: " lsn
case $lsn in
quit) break;;
list) curl http://lsn.to/dir/;;
*) mplayer -prefer-ipv4 http://lsn.to/$lsn
esac
done

BTW, what's the code for?

Also, just an advice, always use code tag for codes. For example-
`

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some code here

`

[Keef]

Do a right click in a directory, select New, then Script. Change the name to whatever takes your fancy. Open in a text editor and then paste in the code below the #!/bin/sh.
Obviously it won't work if you don't have mplayer installed.

[spiritwild]

@Jasper

Is there a way of downloading all the url's in one time?

Also, the code/script(?) that you shared, what does it do?

I using Fossapup64 and that has mpv not mplayer installed.
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Sorry, failed to mention it uses Mplayer. I'm not familiar with mpv as a replacement. There are portable versions I believe. There's also 100 ways to play radio on
puppy. Somewhere in this forum, or the old, musher0 did some stuff with internet radio scripts.
As stated previously, its just a bash script. A novelty to me, I'm usually using GTKradio or radiosure under wine

[keniv]

Found this list for the BBC with options for non-UK and variable bitrates here:

h**ps://gist.github.com/bpsib/67089b959e4fa898af69fea59ad74bc3

My main interest with this was to be able to listen to a number of BBC stations, however I could not get any of the ones in the existing urls in /config/simplegtkradio/playlists/playlist.BBC to work. I used the above link to make a new playlist.BBC file the contents of which are shown below.

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http://a.files.bbci.co.uk/media/live/manifesto/audio/simulcast/hls/uk/sbr_med/ak/bbc_radio_one.m3u8|BBC Radio 1
http://a.files.bbci.co.uk/media/live/manifesto/audio/simulcast/hls/uk/sbr_med/ak/bbc_radio_two.m3u8|BBC Radio 2
http://a.files.bbci.co.uk/media/live/manifesto/audio/simulcast/hls/uk/sbr_med/ak/bbc_radio_three.m3u8|BBC Radio 3
http://a.files.bbci.co.uk/media/live/manifesto/audio/simulcast/hls/uk/sbr_med/ak/bbc_radio_fourlw.m3u8|BBC Radio 4 LW
http://a.files.bbci.co.uk/media/live/manifesto/audio/simulcast/hls/uk/sbr_med/ak/bbc_radio_fourfm.m3u8|BBC Radio 4 FM 
http://a.files.bbci.co.uk/media/live/manifesto/audio/simulcast/hls/uk/sbr_med/ak/bbc_radio_four_extra.m3u8|BBC Radio 4 Extra
http://a.files.bbci.co.uk/media/live/manifesto/audio/simulcast/hls/uk/sbr_med/ak/bbc_radio_five_live.m3u8|BBC Radio 5
http://a.files.bbci.co.uk/media/live/manifesto/audio/simulcast/hls/uk/sbr_med/ak/bbc_6music.m3u8|BBC Radio 6
http://a.files.bbci.co.uk/media/live/manifesto/audio/simulcast/hls/uk/sbr_med/ak/bbc_radio_scotland_fm.m3u8|BBC Radio Scotland
http://wsdownload.bbc.co.uk/worldservice/meta/live/shoutcast/mp3/eieuk.pls|BBC World Service
http://a.files.bbci.co.uk/media/live/manifesto/audio/simulcast/hls/uk/sbr_med/ak/bbc_radio_coventry_warwickshire.m3u8|BBC Radio CWR
http://a.files.bbci.co.uk/media/live/manifesto/audio/simulcast/hls/uk/sbr_med/ak/bbc_radio_newcastle.m3u8|BBC Radio Newcastle

All of the above work for me and there are many more if you care to add them. I don't think these will work outside the UK, however, there is a note which again is shown below.

The above streams are restricted to the UK. For the international stream when available, replace /uk/ with /nonuk/ and /sbr_med/ with /sbr_low/ or /sbr_vlow/.

I would be interested to know if anybody outside the UK can get them to work by making these changes.

Regards,

Ken.

[spiritwild]

I changed mine to

http://a.files.bbci.co.uk/media/live/ma ... e.m3u8|BBC Radio 1

I'm in Indiana and it plays just fine. I also used the "sbr_vlow" and that worked as well.
I didn't try any other links, just the one above.

[keniv]

@spiritwild
Thanks for trying the link. Good to know that it works outside the UK. If that one works I guess there's a good chance the others will as well.

Regards,

Ken.

[spiritwild]

with this playlist.BBC, All of these work for me in this format. In the US

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http://a.files.bbci.co.uk/media/live/manifesto/audio/simulcast/hls/nonuk/sbr_low/ak/bbc_radio_one.m3u8|BBC Radio 1
http://a.files.bbci.co.uk/media/live/manifesto/audio/simulcast/hls/nonuk/sbr_low/ak/bbc_radio_two.m3u8|BBC Radio 2
http://a.files.bbci.co.uk/media/live/manifesto/audio/simulcast/hls/nonuk/sbr_low/ak/bbc_radio_three.m3u8|BBC Radio 3
http://a.files.bbci.co.uk/media/live/manifesto/audio/simulcast/hls/nonuk/sbr_low/ak/bbc_radio_fourlw.m3u8|BBC Radio 4 LW
http://a.files.bbci.co.uk/media/live/manifesto/audio/simulcast/hls/nonuk/sbr_low/ak/bbc_radio_fourfm.m3u8|BBC Radio 4 FM 
http://a.files.bbci.co.uk/media/live/manifesto/audio/simulcast/hls/nonuk/sbr_low/ak/bbc_radio_four_extra.m3u8|BBC Radio 4 Extra
http://a.files.bbci.co.uk/media/live/manifesto/audio/simulcast/hls/nonuk/sbr_low/ak/bbc_radio_five_live.m3u8|BBC Radio 5
http://a.files.bbci.co.uk/media/live/manifesto/audio/simulcast/hls/nonuk/sbr_vlow/ak/bbc_6music.m3u8|BBC Radio 6
http://a.files.bbci.co.uk/media/live/manifesto/audio/simulcast/hls/nonuk/sbr_low/ak/bbc_asian_network.m3u8|BBC - Radio Asian Network
http://a.files.bbci.co.uk/media/live/manifesto/audio/simulcast/hls/nonuk/sbr_low/ak/bbc_world_service.m3u8|BBC - BBC World Service
http://a.files.bbci.co.uk/media/live/manifesto/audio/simulcast/hls/nonuk/sbr_low/ak/bbc_radio_foyle.m3u8|BBC - Radio Foyle

[keniv]

Glad that these are all working for you. Hopefully they'll keep working for a while. I may try to get some of the commercial radio stations local to me to work as well. I think it might be easier to find working urls than it is for the BBC stuff.

Regards,

Ken.

[Jasper]

Hi all

I do not know if this is helpful but I thought I would share it with you.

There is a regularly updated feeds database provided by RadioSure

https://www.radiosure.fr/

The database is approximately 5mb in size and is in a RDS format.

This can be opened up in Gnumeric (or a text editor like Geany) and you can sort out the columns to display Countries/Language/Genre by simply using the A-Z icon.

The default playlist format for SimpleGTK radio is different consisting of just a URL and a the station name.

It would take some time to convert the database into the standard format.

[keniv]

Hi all

I do not know if this is helpful but I thought I would share it with you.

There is a regularly updated feeds database provided by RadioSure

https://www.radiosure.fr/

Thanks for the above. I'll take a look at it. I've made another playlist for simple gtk radio named playlist.UKCommercial the contents of which are shown below. These stations are all working though as they are sort of local to me in the UK may not be that useful if you live elsewhere. However I got them from here http://www.radiofeeds.co.uk/ which has a much wider choice.

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http://www.radiofeeds.net/playlists/bauerflash.pls?station=absolute60s-mp3|Absolute 60s
http://sc3.radiocaroline.net:8030/listen.m3u|Caroline
http://streaming.broadcastradio.com:11130/celtic.m3u|Celtic Music Radio
http://media-ice.musicradio.com:80/ClassicFMMP3|Classic FM
http://www.radiofeeds.net/playlists/bauer.pls?station=clyde1-mp3|Clyde 1
http://www.radiofeeds.net/playlists/bauer.pls?station=clyde2-mp3|Clyde 2
http://icecast.thisisdax.com/HeartGlasgowMP3.m3u|Heart Radio
https://jenny.torontocast.com:2000/stream/HighlanderRadio|Highlander Radio
http://www.radiofeeds.net/playlists/sharptemp.pls?station=nationscotland-mp3|Nation Scotland
http://radionorthsea.zapto.org:8008/stream|Northsea
http://www.radiofeeds.net/playlists/sharptemp.pls?station=pure_radio-mp3|Pure Radio
http://icecast.thisisdax.com/SmoothScotlandMP3.m3u|Smooth Scotland
http://www.radiofeeds.net/playlists/bauer.pls?station=westsound-mp3|West Sound

Regards,

Ken.

[Jasper]

@keniv

Thanks for sharing the playlist. Always useful to have and every now and then I like to randomise my listening as it can get a bit stale listening to the same stations over and over again. I love regional radio.

A great resource

[fredx181]

I do not know if this is helpful but I thought I would share it with you.

There is a regularly updated feeds database provided by RadioSure

https://www.radiosure.fr/

The database is approximately 5mb in size and is in a RDS format.

That is really GREAT !
I was disappointed when RadioSure got offline but it's very nice that the database is now frequently updated.
I'll share later updated Dogradio and Yradio : https://oldforum.puppylinux.com/viewtopic.php?t=112858 with this database included.

[Jasper]

@fredx181

Looking forward to the new updates.

Will you be including the option to record too? I see your the developer for Alsa Capture GUI

I can't see archive.org so no chance to try them out beforehand - my initial preference would be Yradio from the screenshot

Many thanks in advance

[Jasper]

@fredx181

I compiled a newer build of Mplayer for Fossapup which includes "radio" options.

As your applications rely upon this as the default player.

viewtopic.php?p=74206#p74206

[keniv]

@fredx181

I compiled a newer build of Mplayer for Fossapup which includes "radio" options.

As your applications rely upon this as the default player.

viewtopic.php?p=74206#p74206

Hi Jasper,
Thanks for this. Just installed it and tried it with simple gtk radio and it works. I thought the simple gtk radio .pet was 32 bit but it seems to work without the 32bit-compatability-fossa64.sfs loaded.
@fredx181

I'll share later updated Dogradio and Yradio

I'm looking forward to these as well.

Regards,

Ken.

[Jasper]

Your welcome and glad it works for you

The new build does allow the user to record via Alsa.

So hopefully the updated applications will allow us to record the streams without streamripper which is a bit hit and miss.

[fredx181]

In time I'll make new thread for Dogradio and Yradio.
For now I worked on new Yradio (v1.0.0) (Dogradio is a more complicated beast, so needs time), major changes:
- use of index database 'RadioSure' latest from here: http://82.66.77.189/ (see also here: https://www.radiosure.fr/ ) containing more than 32000 stations !
- choice (from right-click tray-icon) to use mpv (default if installed) or mplayer (mpv works better from what I tested, mplayer (specially older versions) can have trouble playing aac or https streams)
- some small bug fixes
EDIT: removed attachment, after testing just now on Fossapup, I noticed that it doesn't work well, will attach later (after better testing )
EDIT 2022-12-04 new version 1.2.0 :
Changes:
- fixed that adding to Favorites did not consist and that 'Add custom' didn't work properly
- improved search option and now showing 'Please wait' message during list loading (large lists can take a long time, before doing anything, wait till the message has disappeared, to prevent freezing)

yradio.tar.gz

Extract somewhere and click yradio script

(417.95 KiB) Downloaded 241 times

(portable, extract somewhere and click yradio script)

yradio-1.2.0-0_noarch.pet

yradio-1.2.0-0 pet package

(416.68 KiB) Downloaded 252 times

(install and run Yradio from Menu > Multimedia

But Note: On FossaPup there's something weird with the yad included, but fixed it for me after installing yad .pet from here: viewtopic.php?p=9063#p9063 or here: viewtopic.php?p=74331#p74331
(see also here: viewtopic.php?p=74276#p74276)
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For testing (not really sure yet if it's finished), it's sort of portable, just extract somewhere and run 'yradio' . Config directory ~/.yradio will be created.

Requirements: yad, mpv or mplayer, streamripper (optional), xdotool (optional).
EDIT: Required is a yad version 0.37 or higher , for v0.40 pet packages, see here; viewtopic.php?p=9063#p9063
Works OK with a yad version built with GTK3 too, but some dialogs look not as good as with GTK2 yad.

Will you be including the option to record too?

Yes, by using streamripper (and yes it doesn't work for every stream type, but nice is that it rips to separate titled tracks):

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Yradio GUI:

Yradio

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[rockedge]

@fredx181 Good radio ! Had a problem that the directory /root/.yradio/playlist was missing and the drop down form field is empty regardless of updating the database successfully.

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[fredx181]

@rockedge A miracle that you could make it work someway, I made a bad mistake !
Removed attachment above, after testing just now on Fossapup, I noticed that it doesn't work well, will attach later (after better testing )

[rockedge]

@fredx181 I added the missing directory and the update db worked but the form field was empty. So I tried a search for "somafm" which filled the list widget and I selected Space Station and it started playing!

[fredx181]

@fredx181 I added the missing directory and the update db worked but the form field was empty. So I tried a search for "somafm" which filled the list widget and I selected Space Station and it started playing!

Ah yes, I see, problem is easy fixable (playlists to be copied command was wrong, resulting in empty dropdown box), I will test more and share later with fix.
EDIT; New attached here with fix: viewtopic.php?p=74256#p74256
Which (Puppy?) system you tested ?
I found that something weird is with the yad installed (v0.42) in Fossapup, the top part of the GUI isn't showing (looks ok on your screenshot, btw).
After I installed the v0.40 .pet from here: viewtopic.php?p=9063#p9063 the GUI is OK.
Tried on KLV too and worked well (after installing mpv).

EDIT: When using mpv as player, I get this screen with some stations not online anymore (and audio message), no idea how to prevent that, oh well... (doesn't happen with mplayer in use)

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[keniv]

@fredx181

EDIT; New attached here with fix: viewtopic.php?p=74256#p74256

Thanks for this. Downloaded and installed your fixed version together with yad v 0.40 in fossapup. Have done only limited testing but every station I tried to open has worked so far. I'm using mplayer and I'm listening to BBC Radio4 Extra while typing this post. Have not tried using mpv. Have just heard a message telling me that this particular stream type will not work after 2023. I've seen this before in some lists of urls. The ability to update the urls could be very useful in this respect. I'll do some more testing and try to get used to using YRadio.

Regards,

Ken.

Edit: Have just noticed that with some stations the station name in the box in the top LHS flashes on and off. Have also found, on the BBC list, that there are multiple slightly different entries for some stations presumably based on where they are being "streamed" to. E.G. I've found 5 entries for BBC Radio 5. Also a number of US stations streaming content originally from the BBC. Not a fault but a bit odd. I suppose it's just an effect of having such a huge choice of stations.

[rockedge]

@fredx181 I'm playing the best radio station in the world -> https://wpkn.org/according-to-the-new-y ... the-world/

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YRadio is working really well on both KLV-Airedale-beta27 with the kernel cr-debkernel built Debian 6.0.0_5 and F96_4-CE with the huge kernel 6.0.9-rock

[Clarity]

Although the instructions for installation are simple, should this be a PET to be added to WoofCE/repo?

[Jasper]

@fredx181

Thanks for the revised application and it does work but it needs a little bit of input from the end user.

There is Yad file available here from the Ubuntu Archives:
http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/pool/u ... _amd64.deb

Which I installed first and got a dark theme gui.

I had to create the folder and download the database to get it to load the stations.

I noticed the icons were not completely visible, so installed the Yad Pet file linked in your post.

Re-opened the application and it had changed colour and I could only see 4 stations.

I appreciate it has been a quick turn around and look forward to future progress