This post was moved from http://rawtext.club where it was originally posted. The
database mentioned here is not online anymore, email me if you want
it.
Mon Nov 8 10:52:13 PM CET 2021
The ultimate way to listen to online radio in text mode has just been improved. If that makes sense. Hello. Today is Thu 23 Jan 2020 02:32:15 PM UTC.
Instead of csvsql, I am using SQLite3 now. So go get it, install it. It is in the Debian repositories. Querying a 35,000+-row database with SQLite3 is unbelievably faster than with csvsql. What was sometimes even a several-second ordeal is now a bat-of-an-eye breeze.
I removed the select function. Now you have to use the
play command with the id number. I also
removed a silly repetition/redundancy there was in the previous version.
VLC was invoked muted in the
background twice… when the user entered the
play command, once to (slowly) update de csv database, the
second time to decide if playing the stream or not. So a third time VLC
could be invoked, to play the stream if it was active. How like, duh!,
of me, right?
Download this tarball, make
listen executable, and copy listen and
listen.db to ~/bin. Invoke it with listen from
the command line. Put the files in just any other directory, but make
the changes accordingly. There is also a BASH function to provide for
some autocompletion, just copy the contents of it to
~/.bashrc then source it, for example like so:
source ~/.bashrc.
Other than that, the behavior of the script is pretty much the same.
It works way, way faster, but it behaves kind of the same. You can
invoke it with one or no argument. If with one argument, the argument
hast to be a short name for the radio station. If the user does not
provide an argument, a prompt appears. Type sql, then type
a valid SQL query. A list of radio stations will be displayed, with
less -F. Press q to exit less if
necessary, then type play {id}. Enjoy. You’re welcome.
This is my fourth attempt at providing a comfortable experience to listen to radio streams using the command line. Some years ago, I did a naive interface using, sigh, dialog. Then I used a BASH script that combined csvsql non-interactively. Upon that I built the interactive interface I presented here at RTC some days ago. Use it, enjoy it, distribute it. Thanks to rawtext.club for providing this html space. Be excellent to each other. E-mail yours truly at gasconheart@sdf.org.
