microflarets

I’m sick of bad flash players that internet radio stations use. So I wrote a simple shell script to play a station. Substitute your favourite station and player.

1. Copy this into a new text file (say, play_radio.sh)

FILE=/tmp/stream-`date +%H%M-%d%b%G`.mp3
STATION=http://live.citr.ca:8000/stream.mp3
PLAYER=mp3blaster
echo “buffering to ‘$FILE’…”
terminal -x wget -O$FILE $STATION &
sleep 10
echo “opening stream…”
$PLAYER $FILE

2. make it excecutable

chmod +x play_radio.sh

3. run

./play_radio.sh

Increase the buffering length if you want to be able to skip forward over any boring bits. It’s pretty easy to split this mp3 stream later (using mp3splt or similar) to save a song you hear and like!