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A radio applet with 1000's of searchable stations, mpris support, youtube-download function and more

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Radio++

A simple radio applet for Cinnamon. The radio-applet has been totally rewritten for Cinnamon 4.6. All information below refers to this version. The old readme can be found here

Features

Radio Station search
The radio applet can be controlled (paused, sound increased/decreased) by programs with MPRIS control (e.g. the sound applet, kdeconnect or playerctl). Such programs also receive the title of the current playing song (e.g you can show the current playing song in the sound applet by activating the option "Show song information on the panel" in the sound applet).
All other running programs with sound output which have implemented the MPRIS interface (e.g. most Browsers, Spotify, ...) are automatically paused when starting a radio channel
A download dialog is opened when clicking on the applet for downloading the missing required dependencies (all except youtube-dl. See Dependencies section)
The current playing song title can be copied to the clipboard or even downloaded from Youtube
The volume can be controlled by using the mouse wheel while the cursor is placed on the icon in the panel. Also it is possible to toggle the play/pause status by middleclicking on the icon
The title of the radio channel can be shown in the panel
The icon color changes when a radio channel is playing
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Dependencies

The mpv media player is used for playing the radio channel. As the mpv media player doesn't support MPRIS control out of the box, this plugin is used to get this feature. For the mpv player and the plugin, a download dialogue is opened when clicking on the applet.

TLDR Run this gist as sudo to install youtube-dl

For the youtube download feature you can either use youtube-dl or yt-dlp. By default youtube-dl is selected. As google frequently makes technical changes to Youtube, it is highly recommended to always have the newest version of the download cli tool installed as otherwise the feature will most likely stop working after a short time. Unfortunately, the newest version in the official linux mint apt repository is usually not even close to sufficiently up to date. Therefore I highly recommend installing the software by following the official installstion instruction which can be found on the respective github page and adding a script in /etc/cron.daily to automate the update. I have created a gist for both youtube-dl and yt-dlp for this purpose.

Known Issues

Special characters (e.g German Umlaute) are not shown correctly on the sound applet (when the option "Show song information on the panel" is activated). This is a bug of the mpv player. There is an open pull request which will fix that. At the moment the only workaround is to compile mpv from the source of the mentioned pull request.
For some radio stations (e.g. BBC) the metadata can't be shown
It is automatically downloaded the compiled version of the mpv mpris plugin which however is only suitable for 64-bit x86 architecutres (e.g. not for the raspberry pi). In that case you unfortunately have to build the plugin by yourself at the moment and place the plugin at: ~/.cinnamon/configs/radio@driglu4it/.mpris.so.

New Maintainer Needed

I (https://github.com/jonath92) have been expanding and maintaining the Radio Applet for a while now, but for personal reasons I unfortunately have very little time for this project. Therefore I am looking for a new maintainer. I am still more than willing to help a new maintainer with technical questions about the code. If you need help regarding the code, just open an issue in the applet repo and notify me in the issue.

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278 Comments

Hookedon3D-1 month ago

I am using Linux Mint 22 and I have updated everything like it said. I am still getting an error when I try to download a song. This is what I see in the log if it makes sense? Gjs-Message: 19:58:40.289: JS LOG: [LookingGlass/error] The following error occured at youtube download attempt: /usr/local/bin/youtube-dl: line 1: syntax error near unexpected token `newline' /usr/local/bin/youtube-dl: line 1: `<h1>Access denied</h1>' . The used download Command was: youtube-dl --output "/tmp/.2V1AV2/%(title)s.%(ext)s" --extract-audio --audio-format mp3 ytsearch1:"maestro300 - The Hitchhikers Guide To Trance RV4" --add-metadata --embed-thumbnail Gjs-Message: 19:59:30.413: JS LOG: [LookingGlass/error] Failed to copy download from tmp dir. The following error occurred: Error: filename couldn't be determined Gjs-Message: 19:59:46.621: JS LOG: [LookingGlass/error] Failed to copy download from tmp dir. The following error occurred: Error: filename couldn't be determined

Jonathan Sarrazin-1 month ago

Does it work when you yt-dlp?

Hookedon3D-1 month ago

no, neither one is working.

Jonathan Sarrazin-1 month ago

it works for me it ytl-dlp. What happens when you run the command with yt-dlp in the terminal? Which `yt-dlp` version do you have installed?

Hookedon3D-1 month ago

I am new to Linux Mint (linux in general) so I am not sure how to run it from the terminal, tbh. However, the version number is 2024.09.27.

Jonathan Sarrazin-1 month ago

ah I know see the problem. The problem is that the first result for the search term is a playlist and not a video. For yt-dlp the error should be different. Seems to be a limitation of yt-dlp and youtube-dl. I don't think there is an easy fix. It should however work for all search terms where the first result in youtube is not a playlist

Hookedon3D-1 month ago

So, this app isn't going to work as intended? Because I just wanted something simple where I can listen to radio stations and download the songs I liked with a click of a button. I don't want to do anything complicated, tbh.

Jonathan Sarrazin-1 month ago

With yt-dlp, it works in the very most cases. When the Radio channel Shows a title that when entered in Youtube, returns as first result a playlist, it does not work. This rarely happens. If this is not good enough for you, the applet is not the right choise for you. Good luck finding something that works better.

Hookedon3D-1 month ago

I just tried it with yt-dlp and it looks like it's going but then i get the same error message. What do I need to do to get it to work?

Jonathan Sarrazin-1 month ago

For this particular search, we need to change the code. But for the very most other cases, it will work. E.g. if you use the applet and listen to a radio channel which plays the song "Losing my Religion" and you see the song in the popup menu, then the download will work. If the radio channel shows: "maestro300 - The Hitchhikers Guide To Trance RV4", the download will fail

Hookedon3D-1 month ago

I don't understand? I usually listen to Trance channels so, are you saying it won't work because they are playing a set or something?

Jonathan Sarrazin-1 month ago

I don't know what they are playing. I am saying that when you do the following: - Open the radio applet and click on a channel - Open the popup menu and click on the Button "Copy current song to clipboard" - Open youtube in your browser and paste the text and click on search and there is no result or the first result is a playlist than the download button will not work. If the first result is a video and it is still not working there is another issue. E.g for "maestro300 - The Hitchhikers Guide To Trance RV4", the first result is a playlist. For the playlist issue I have an idea how I can fix it in the code and I hope to have some time for it on the weekend (without guarantee). So maybe it will work in the near future. For the other issue I don't know...

Hookedon3D-4 weeks ago

== Stack trace for context 0x614e1cab40f0 == #0 7ffdd9cd0770 b /usr/share/cinnamon/js/ui/environment.js:43 (87712f70c90 @ 46) #1 7ffdd9cd0870 b /usr/share/cinnamon/js/ui/popupMenu.js:1991 (87712ff2ba0 @ 74) #2 7ffdd9cd1010 b /usr/share/cinnamon/js/misc/fileUtils.js line 211 > Function:1043 (1b61ab2b3d0 @ 292) #3 7ffdd9cd10b0 b /usr/share/cinnamon/js/misc/fileUtils.js line 211 > Function:1013 (1b61ab2b290 @ 63) #4 614e235d4948 i /usr/share/cinnamon/js/misc/fileUtils.js line 211 > Function:1027 (1b61ab2b380 @ 22) #5 614e235d48b8 i resource:///org/gnome/gjs/modules/core/overrides/Gio.js:251 (87712f98ce0 @ 17) (cinnamon:2109): Clutter-CRITICAL **: 15:24:41.405: clutter_layout_manager_get_child_meta: assertion 'CLUTTER_IS_LAYOUT_MANAGER (manager)' failed (cinnamon:2109): GLib-GObject-CRITICAL **: 15:24:41.405: g_object_set: assertion 'G_IS_OBJECT (object)' failed (cinnamon:2109): GLib-GObject-CRITICAL **: 15:24:41.405: g_object_set: assertion 'G_IS_OBJECT (object)' failed (cinnamon:2109): Clutter-CRITICAL **: 15:24:41.405: clutter_layout_manager_get_child_meta: assertion 'CLUTTER_IS_LAYOUT_MANAGER (manager)' failed (cinnamon:2109): GLib-GObject-CRITICAL **: 15:24:41.405: g_object_set: assertion 'G_IS_OBJECT (object)' failed (cinnamon:2109): GLib-GObject-CRITICAL **: 15:24:41.405: g_object_set: assertion 'G_IS_OBJECT (object)' failed ** (cinnamon:2109): WARNING **: 15:24:45.725: cinnamon_app_create_icon_texture: MetaWindow 0x614e1dad1080 provided that does not match App 0x614e1edc8d20 Gjs-Message: 15:25:40.529: JS LOG: [LookingGlass/info] [weather@mockturtl#22:Info]: Weather Information refreshed Gjs-Message: 15:40:41.499: JS LOG: [LookingGlass/info] [weather@mockturtl#22:Info]: Weather Information refreshed Gjs-Message: 15:55:42.397: JS LOG: [LookingGlass/info] [weather@mockturtl#22:Info]: Weather Information refreshed Gjs-Message: 15:55:56.913: JS LOG: [LookingGlass/error] Failed to copy download from tmp dir. The following error occurred: Error moving file /tmp/.G1BXV2/Andy Tau - Fable (Ultimate Remix) [HD].mp3: No such file or directory Gjs-Message: 15:56:24.652: JS LOG: [LookingGlass/info] Adding XAppStatusIcon: (:1.49/org/x/StatusIcon/Icon_1) Gjs-Message: 16:04:42.785: JS LOG: [LookingGlass/error] Failed to copy download from tmp dir. The following error occurred: Error moving file /tmp/.5KM3V2/Photographer - Airport (Original Mix) [HD].mp3: No such file or directory Gjs-Message: 16:04:58.020: JS LOG: [LookingGlass/error] Failed to copy download from tmp dir. The following error occurred: Error moving file /tmp/.ZEP7V2/Photographer - Airport (Original Mix) [HD].mp3: No such file or directory Window manager warning: Buggy client sent a _NET_ACTIVE_WINDOW message with a timestamp of 0 for 0x6c00325" These can't be sets. It's a single song and it's giving me some weird error. I wish I knew how to fix it.

Hookedon3D-1 month ago

Okay, cool thanks, I appreciate it. At least we are on the right track (no pun intended).

Jonathan Sarrazin-1 month ago

*use

rexus1967-1 month ago

I tried to do as he told me but I can't solve the problem

rexus1967-1 month ago

I have just installed radio ++ on Linux Mint but always have an error please install mpv package I can't understand I'm a newbie if anyone could give me a hand I thank you very much in advance

Jonathan Sarrazin-1 month ago

Did you try: https://chatgpt.com/share/66fc4820-9348-8009-84fe-2ec3c6432c45 (without step 4)?

Texcaliber-2 months ago

I Just had the controls for Radio++ disappear along with the multiple streams playing in background... to resolve I removed the mpris.so in /home/user/.cache/radio@driglu4it, reinstalled the applet and had it replace mpris, Ctrl+Alt+Esc and the controls were back. Not sure what could have caused it, I'm a relative noob to with anything below the surface in Linux. Really appreciate the applet. Linux-Mint 22 Cinnamon, fresh install.

MegaV0lt-3 months ago

Is there a way to infos abaut station and actual playing song in conky? Previous i was usiing radiotray-ng witch had a dbus interface

Jonathan Sarrazin-3 months ago

I don't know much about conky but should be possible with mpris.

cebroski-4 months ago

Thank you for creating this and sharing it with the world! ❤️ Is there a way to send the creator a donation?

Jonathan Sarrazin-4 months ago

No but you can click on the like button at the top. And also you can try to contribute to the code ;-). Contributions are very welcome.

k4100x-4 months ago

Thank you for making this -- it's so well-designed!

Lech Stopa-7 months ago

I was looking for a good alternative to radiotray in Ubuntu when I switched to LMDE 6 and I found this applet. It's exactly what I was looking for and even better!

Padre2-7 months ago

I am using Arch version 6.8.6 and Cinnamon Cinnamon 6.0.4. Since the rewriting the new version, I have been able to use the Radio++ applet. I have had it installed on Arch for almost 4 years and is has been one of my favourite applets used almost every day. I was not happy with the update adding searches especially for YouTube, but could live with them. I was happy to see all my old stations displaying, but if I click on one and it opens, there is no way to stop it. The drop-down menu only displays the list of stations. Clicking an another station will open it and you have 2 stations playing and worse still the system hangs and requires powering off. Can you fix these issues? In the meantime is there anywhere I can download the old version to see if I can get it working.

Jonathan Sarrazin-7 months ago

The code is open source. So feel free to fix it yourself. As already said 3 years ago: You can revert back by copying the content from ~/.local/share/cinnamon/applets/radio@driglu4it/3.0 to ~/.local/share/cinnamon/applets/radio@driglu4it/4.6

maloosheck-7 months ago

Applet stopped working after I upgraded Cinnamon to 6.0.4

Tony-9 months ago

Update to my comment a day ago. Seems the 'station name' problem recurred but restarting Cinnamon restores it to normal.

Tony-9 months ago

Thank you Jonathan for a fine piece of design and programming. I use this applet daily. Built a new machine with LM21.3 (Cinnamon 6) and the applet played up for a day or so with selected station name not updating, but after a kernel update (5.15.0-92-generic) today it seems to be working perfectly again. No idea why! Again, thank you

Michael Richards-11 months ago

I just installed this Applet and it works great right off the word GO. Great Applet, thanks.

archiebug-11 months ago

Thanks for the great applet. There is now an issue when using Cinnamon 6.0. The applet does not start. Here is a snip from the log file: [radio@driglu4it]: SessionAsync is not a constructor [radio@driglu4it]: Error importing applet.js from radio@driglu4it Gjs-Message: 08:42:59.917: JS LOG: [LookingGlass/trace] <---------------- anonymous/<@/home/<user>/.local/share/cinnamon/applets/radio@driglu4it/4.6/radio-applet.js:5575:21 anonymous@/home/<user>/.local/share/cinnamon/applets/radio@driglu4it/4.6/radio-applet.js:5837:12 createExports@/usr/share/cinnamon/js/misc/fileUtils.js:219:11 requireModule@/usr/share/cinnamon/js/misc/fileUtils.js:281:16 require@/usr/share/cinnamon/js/misc/fileUtils.js:222:24 anonymous@/home/<user>/.local/share/cinnamon/applets/radio@driglu4it/4.6/applet.js:6:30 createExports@/usr/share/cinnamon/js/misc/fileUtils.js:219:11 requireModule/</<@/usr/share/cinnamon/js/misc/fileUtils.js:291:25 ----------------> Issue started after upgrading to Cinnamon 6.0

Harry Richmond-11 months ago

Thanks for this great applet. Any idea to fix downloading crash ? I've tried your gist, but it don't fix the issue. Best regards.

Jonathan Heard-11 months ago

Did you also try with yt-dlp?

tomaasz-1 year ago

could you add codec/bitrate info ?

FoulerTripod363-1 year ago

Amazing app and amazing developer keep the good work!

Rodrigo100-dev-1 year ago

How to add this station: live2.mystreamplayer.com/bigradio?autoplay=18 When I put this address the program does not play this station.

kearun-1 year ago

The best applet, but I ask the author to add the ability to create your own playlist, even a few ... If you add many stations to my station, when you click on the applet, it switches to the last station.

Owweeee-1 year ago

Its a great applet, but since doing a reinstall of Mint (21.1/21.2) its doing something weird. The applet stops responding like its stopped playing previously (similar to the first problem posted a month ago by NorfLoud) but it keeps playing the station and sometimes I've had 3 or more radio stations playing over each other and only a reboot will fix it.

guy6308-9 months ago

Yes, I am using 2.2.4 on Mint 21.2 and indeed, sometimes when selecting a radio station it starts to play but the applet does not show that a station is playing, and if you select another station, they bot play at the same time. A workaround that works for me : is you have 2 stations playing at the same time, kill the process you do not want. AND, no need to reboot the system . Just re-start Cinnamon with Ctrl-Alt-Esc.

Owweeee-1 year ago

Ive found out how to stop it, you have to end the mpv process and then reload the applet.

angelotux-1 year ago

excellent app for information can you change the icon and insert a custom one?

NorfLoud-1 year ago

Hello, I like your applet, but there are problems with it on linux mint 21.1. Problems: 1) The interface freezes - I select another station, but the display does not switch to it, the name of the song being played does not change. Sometimes the interface displays an open circle with an arrow and then the application does not respond to the station selection at all and does not reproduce anything. Only restarting applet helps. 2) When you exit the screen saver, the radio station stops playing.

NorfLoud-1 year ago

I tried another application, it also uses mpv to play the radio. When the screen turns off it just stops playback. I solved the problem by simply prohibiting turning off the screen. It looks like corrections need to be made to the mpv player itself. If we could inform the developers of the mpv player about the necessary fixes, that would be great.

NorfLoud-1 year ago

Clarification: such problems arise when you exit the screensaver after the monitor has gone out. The monitor turns on, my password request is turned off, playback is interrupted, the desktop appears. I have Linux MInt 21.1 Cinnamon.

Jonathan Heard-1 year ago

> 1) The interface freezes - I select another station, but the display does not switch to it, the name of the song being played does not change. Sometimes the interface displays an open circle with an arrow and then the application does not respond to the station selection at all and does not reproduce anything. Only restarting applet helps. This can happen when the url is not valid. But usually this should only be the case for a short while until mpv stops. The ui is only updated after mpv detects the change. This has the benefit that you can stop the radio remotely (e.g. via kde connect) and theoretically you can even change the url remotely although I doubt that anybody is doing this and maybe this should be changed but this is not an easy change and i doubt I will find for this in the foreseeable future but pull requests are much appreciated. > 2) When you exit the screen saver, the radio station stops playing. I understand that this annoys you but for me that is a rare and complicated edge case which most likely is more a problem in mpv itself and not in the applet. I will definitely not fix that. But again pull requests are much appreciated.

NorfLoud-1 year ago

Understood. Is this only happening in linux mint 21.1 cinnamon?

TimeWaster-1 year ago

Hi, for some reason i cannot see any controls except for the radio list, i can start playback but not stop it or control it. I installed LMDE 2 days ago, everything should be up-to-date. Is there a way to debug this? It's just Javascript, right?

Jonathan Heard-1 year ago

Are you sure you are using this applet and not the Radio3.0 applet? If so, do you see anything regarding to radio++ in the ~/.xsession-errors? Does this file: ~/.cinnamon/configs/radio@driglu4it/.mpris.so exist? It is typescript. You can of course pull the code and make some logs and further investigate the problems. Pull Requests are more than welcome.

TimeWaster-1 year ago

another question: there is a package mpv-mpris in the apt sources, why can't this be used?

Jonathan Heard-1 year ago

That package didn't exist when the code has been written. But I agree that it would make sense to prefer this package over the download from github. So feel free to make a pull request ;-).

TimeWaster-1 year ago

yeah, i also tried Radio3.0 and found it way too complicated. the only noteworthy output of sxession-errors is when i remove Radio++ from the taskbar: ``` Gjs-Message: 10:27:53.186: JS LOG: [LookingGlass/warning] Invalid or null signal handler id used when attempting to .disconnect from an object. overrideDumpStack/global.dump_gjs_stack@/usr/share/cinnamon/js/ui/overrides.js:24:42 overrideGObject/GObject.Object.prototype.disconnect@/usr/share/cinnamon/js/ui/overrides.js:46:20 _onAppletRemovedFromPanel@/usr/share/cinnamon/js/ui/applet.js:421:25 removeAppletFromPanels@/usr/share/cinnamon/js/ui/appletManager.js:325:20 onEnabledAppletsChanged@/usr/share/cinnamon/js/ui/appletManager.js:291:31 createCheckedMethod/<@resource:///org/gnome/gjs/modules/core/overrides/Gio.js:528:46 removeApplet@/usr/share/cinnamon/js/ui/appletManager.js:512:21 _removeAppletFromPanel/<@/usr/share/cinnamon/js/ui/appletManager.js:641:25 Gjs-Message: 10:27:53.186: JS LOG: [LookingGlass/error] No signal connection 1 found Gjs-Message: 10:27:53.186: JS LOG: [LookingGlass/trace] <---------------- _disconnect@resource:///org/gnome/gjs/modules/core/_signals.js:58:11 deactivateAllListener@/home/user/.local/share/cinnamon/applets/radio@driglu4it/4.6/radio-applet.js:2754:62 handleAppletRemoved@/home/user/.local/share/cinnamon/applets/radio@driglu4it/4.6/radio-applet.js:5777:76 createAppletContainer/applet.on_applet_removed_from_panel@/home/user/.local/share/cinnamon/applets/radio@driglu4it/4.6/radio-applet.js:4061:73 _onAppletRemovedFromPanel@/usr/share/cinnamon/js/ui/applet.js:424:14 removeAppletFromPanels@/usr/share/cinnamon/js/ui/appletManager.js:325:20 onEnabledAppletsChanged@/usr/share/cinnamon/js/ui/appletManager.js:291:31 createCheckedMethod/<@resource:///org/gnome/gjs/modules/core/overrides/Gio.js:528:46 removeApplet@/usr/share/cinnamon/js/ui/appletManager.js:512:21 _removeAppletFromPanel/<@/usr/share/cinnamon/js/ui/appletManager.js:641:25 ----------------> Gjs-Message: 10:27:53.186: JS LOG: [LookingGlass/error] Error during on_applet_removed_from_panel() call on applet: radio@driglu4it/52 ``` the file "~/.cinnamon/configs/radio@driglu4it/.mpris.so" does NOT exist. but i know that i clicked the "download on my own risk" option.

Jonathan Heard-1 year ago

Hm that's weird. After a fresh look into the code I must correct my self. The path of the mpris extension doesn't mandatory have to be here: ~/.cinnamon/configs/radio@driglu4it/.mpris.so. It is either this directory (or the cache directory returned from imports.gi.Glib.get_user_cache_dir) which is pretty confusing tbh. For me it looks pretty much like as if the mpris plugin doesn't work on your machine. So I would recommend you to do the following: 1. Download the mpris plugin manually to the configs dir: `wget https://github.com/hoyon/mpv-mpris/releases/download/0.5/mpris.so -O ~/.cinnamon/configs/radio@driglu4it/.mpris.so` 2. Start mpv manually: mpv --config=no --no-video --script=~/.cinnamon/configs/radio@driglu4it/.mpris.so http://wdr-wdr2-rheinruhr.icecast.wdr.de/wdr/wdr2/rheinruhr/mp3/128/stream.mp3 And see the logs. I expect that there will be some issues with the plugin on your machine. You need to figure that out and then replace the mpris.so file with a file which is working on your machine (maybe you can just use newest version of the plugin which should be changed in the code anyway) or in the worst case you have to build it by yourself. https://github.com/hoyon/mpv-mpris#build

TimeWaster-1 year ago

i found the file here: ~/.cache/radio@driglu4it/.mpris.so wgetting it to .cinammon/configs and running the mpv command works fine, it also correctly reacts to playerctl: mpv --config=no --no-video --script=~/.cinnamon/configs/radio@driglu4it/.mpris.so http://wdr-wdr2-rheinruhr.icecast.wdr.de/wdr/wdr2/rheinruhr/mp3/128/stream.mp3 (+) Audio --aid=1 (mp3 2ch 48000Hz) AO: [pulse] 48000Hz stereo 2ch float A: 00:00:00 / 00:00:03 (24%) Cache: 2.7s/97KB File tags: icy-title: Lenny Kravitz - It ain't over 'til it's over A: 00:00:08 / 00:00:14 (59%) Cache: 5.6s/203KB mpv log shows no errors and i can see that the mpris library was loaded. i tried rebooting and uninstalling and reinstalling the applet, to no avail.

TimeWaster-1 year ago

uhm... it just suddenly started working after i started debugging the code (i only added log statements and restarted cinammon)... *confused*

Jonathan Heard-1 year ago

Hm That's weird. Than I hope you will like the applet and if you do so, I would appreciate if you click the like button on this page as it helps me to improve my reputation as a developer.

TimeWaster-1 year ago

i very much like it, simple and clean. only thing i would add is to show the codec/bitrate in the search list. Liked.

Jonathan Heard-1 year ago

I can't answer here with code snippets as I get an error. Please see my answer therefore here: https://github.com/linuxmint/cinnamon-spices-applets/issues/4863

kstr3-1 year ago

Hi, Do not know why sometimes a video is downloaded from YouTube, and others I just get a wpbp image. Using yt-ldp straightforward from command line, with not extra options (only URL), I get the video successfully :) Should I do some additional configuration? ("Configure" option gives no possibilities AFAIK) Thanks in advance

rlw1138-1 year ago

Love Rdio++! It's running all day, every day! But like DevilzEyes, for the past week-ish I get an error downloading from YT. I have the daily cron jobs to get the updates to YTdlp and yutoob-dl, so not sure where the issue is... Thanks for R++ ! ! !

Devilzeyez-1 year ago

hey man great applet, i've been using it on every pc i'm using. but recently i've been having a problem trying to download keeps getting an error!!! using it on Linux Mint the latest.

Bruno-1 year ago

Man , this radio applet is priceless. Works without a hitch. Love the fact that you can import/export lists. Any chance KDE gets this awesomeness ?

demarkz-1 year ago

Any chance we can have an update to Linux Mint 21.1 since the radio isn't working in the new version anymore?

Jonathan Heard-1 year ago

Yes I already made a pull request a couple of weeks ago but unfortunatley the Mint Team hasn't merged it yet (which is really annoying). As a workaround you can replace th radio-applet.js file with this command: wget -O ~/.local/share/cinnamon/applets/radio@driglu4it/4.6/radio-applet.js https://raw.githubusercontent.com/linuxmint/cinnamon-spices-applets/e0b5c3e782d0acf64775bd7e844c216f6607f98b/radio@driglu4it/files/radio@driglu4it/4.6/radio-applet.js

kuehhe1-1 year ago

Hello, on 01.01.2023 the new Radio++ "Version 2.2.3 from 2023-01-01 21:27:08" was updated via the update management of LM21.1Cin. The popup for installing the: .mpris.so plugin is no longer displayed. Saved channel lists can be imported and played. Thanks a lot.

Jonathan Heard-1 year ago

What do you see in the terminal when you run `python3 ~/.local/share/cinnamon/applets/radio@driglu4it/4.6/download-dialog-mpris.py`? Is the dialog than opened?

kuehhe1-1 year ago

In addition: the installation creates an additional directory for the: /.mpris.so plugin in: ~/.cache/radio@driglu4it ... Why in the cache? Why not in: ~/.configs/cinnamon/spices/radio@driglu4it ?

Jonathan Heard-1 year ago

Yes that's a good question. It was in the cinnamon configs dir in the past but as the cinnamon configs dir had changed I had to also change it in the code. So while refactoring the code I asked my self if this really belongs in the configs directory. And I have come to the conclusion that it doesn't belong there as it is not a configuration. I find it really annoying that a lot of apps (especially electron apps) put every crap in that directory which makes it much more difficult to track your own settings changes. If every app would put all config files - and only config files - in the config dir, it would be much easier to create backups for it and track setting changes (since you could then just use the folder as a git repo). The only thing which is currently not so nice, is that the applet folder in the cache directory doesn't get deleted when the applet is uninstalled but I want to add this in the feature and it is not so problematic as the mpris plugin is very small.

demarkz-1 year ago

Thank you, Jonathan. It worked and now I can listen to my radios again.

Tony-1 year ago

Typo in my previous comment. Should read "all Cinnamon applet configurations have been moved from ~/.cinnamon/configs to ~/.config/cinnamon/spices

Jonathan Heard-1 year ago

Thanks for reporting :-)

Jonathan Heard-1 year ago

Should be fixed in new version

Tony-1 year ago

Linux Mint 21.1 is now in beta testing. It seems to break this app - the mpris plugin can't be installed by the applet. This appears to be because all Cinnamon applet configurations have been moved from ~/cinnamon/configs to ~/.config/cinnamon/spices. Hope that can be sorted out. I love Radio++

invexx-2 years ago

Thank you VERY much for making this applet. One tweak would make it even more enjoyable. Pressing Pause or Stop, the sound could in a fraction of a second go down to zero, so it wouldn't be so jarring. And pressing Play could again in a fraction of a second go from zero to the set volume.

Jonathan Heard-2 years ago

Thanks for the kind words. Is this is a common feature of other media applications? I personally can't remember ever seeing this kind of feature in any other applications. Maybe I can add an option for this in the settings at some point in the future but it doesn't have a high priority for me tbh. But Pull requests are always welcome.

Tony-1 year ago

Hi Jonathan, it is probably not common but certainly is a much-liked option in Clementine and Strawberry players

invexx-2 years ago

Thank you for your reply. Yes, Rhythmbox music player has it.

Jonathan Heard-2 years ago

Which option is this in Rhythmbox? Do You mean crossfade? Because I think crossfade is a little bit different. Or do you mean that Rhythmbox does this out of the box? Because I don't recognize this at Rhythmbox but maybe it is just so marginal that I just don't recognize this.

invexx-2 years ago

Hi Jonathan. No, it's not crossfade. I apologize. It definitely is as I described it in my Mint installation. However, to compare, I booted a live USB, installed Rhythmbox and played a song. Pausing and playing is jarring. So I thought that maybe it's a plugin. I disabled all plugins in my Mint installation and it's still working. Very confusing, so I recorded a few seconds of a song where I paused/played three times. Please have a listen invex.net/recording.wav. You'll clearly hear what I mean.

Jonathan Heard-2 years ago

Ok thanks for the clarification. Very interesting.

johnnrandall-2 years ago

Hi, Is there a way to set keyboard shortcuts to control stop/play of stations?

Jonathan Heard-2 years ago

Not really at the moment. You could create a hack with playerctl but that's not very convenient of course. But I think it is a reasonable feature which I might consider at some point in future and Pull requests are always welcome.

dilinger-2 years ago

Hi, just as a heads-up; debian unstable now has an mpv-mpris package (see https://tracker.debian.org/pkg/mpv-mpris ). I may also provide this as a backport for debian 11, if I end up using radio++ regularly. Either way, mpv-mpris will be in debian 12, ubuntu 24.04, and mint 22. The package puts the plugin at /usr/lib/mpv-mpris/mpris.so I was able to use it with your radio++ spice by symlinking it (ln -s /usr/lib/mpv-mpris/mpris.so ~/.cinnamon/configs/radio@driglu4it/.mpris.so), but it would be great if you could also check for the plugin in /usr/lib/mpv-mpris by default. Thanks!

Jonathan Heard-2 years ago

What is the benefit of installing it via apt instead of downloading it directly (which is just one click with the provided dialogue)? I am a little concerned that we're going to end up reviewing a number of storage locations in the end.

dilinger-2 years ago

There's 3 main benefits: 1) Trust. You could argue that I'm already relying heavily on trust since I'm downloading spices from outside of my distribution's main repository, but spices are at least still javascript that we can view the source code for. Downloading a compiled binary from a random place (even if that random place is github) is not great for security, and it's definitely not a good idea for users to get comfortable with doing that on a regular basis. But the packaged version of mpv-mpris? I trust that a lot more. 2) Convenience. Distributions will build versions for all architectures they support, so Pi users don't have to build it themselves. 3) Security. Your spice will download the .so, but does it ever get updated if there's a security issue? I agree that it's still early and you'll want to wait a bit to ensure that the path to the shared library stays the same as the package migrates from Debian to other distributions, but I just wanted to let you know for the future.

Jonathan Heard-2 years ago

Ok thanks for your explanation. These are indeed very good points. I will add the path in the next Update.

wojtastytus-2 years ago

Hello, I have Linux Mint 21 installed and the Radio++ program works great, but still can't download from YouTube can you help me. I want to point out that I am learning this system. Thank you.

Jonathan Heard-2 years ago

Hi, sorry to hear that. In general it would be very helpful to have more information than 'still can't download', e.g. do you get a notification that tells you that the download failed? I guess the problem for you (and other users) is that they don't have a recent youtube-dl version installed which you can either install by following the official installation instructions: https://github.com/ytdl-org/youtube-dl or by simply executing this command: sudo su -c "bash <(wget -qO- https://gist.githubusercontent.com/jonath92/039e998b3d3f6ba4afd5d5c671eaedf1/raw/23542a3aadadf5ba181fb8aff723c27610551abd/install-update-yt-dlp.sh)" root in the terminal.

wojtastytus-2 years ago

Jonathan Heard - Hello, thank you very much for your help I managed to fix the problem with the command: sudo su-c....., Greetings. Wojtek

Sudhanva Lalit-2 years ago

I did a fresh install today (arch linux, cinnamon desktop). Unfortunately it didn't add mpris.so to the config folder. So I did a make install, and it compiled an mpris.so. The applet doesn't like mpris.so, so needs to be renamed to .mpris.so and things work fine.

wmr500-2 years ago

I am unable to download the music file says I need to update if I do sudo apt update will that fix it wmr500@gmail.com I'm 78 in over my head

Jonathan Heard-2 years ago

The notification should say that you shouldn't use apt for this purpose and it is only written above in the readme. You need to execute this command on the terminal: sudo su -c "bash <(wget -qO- https://gist.githubusercontent.com/jonath92/0f6bf4606bc8a34be1bb0826c99b73d1/raw/914aabe6c4b15dc614f18c8816f5ad2828755c22/install-Update-Youtube-dl.sh)" root

elvino1-2 years ago

Pardon my ignorance - but how can I export my radio station list to another linux mint installation?

Jonathan Heard-2 years ago

You need to copy the ~/.cinnamon/configs/radio@driglu4it/radio@driglu4it.json file.

elvino1-2 years ago

Thanks Jonathan

mpauld77-2 years ago

One of the main reasons I use LinuxMint is this specific applet. I don't know of any other similar application in which one can simply type the name of any radio station and add it automatically to the list. I would like to ask whether it is possible to use or port this applet to other ubuntu based distros, like Kubuntu and Ubuntu. I use it on a daily basis for more than 8-10 hours a day.

Jonathan Heard-2 years ago

I am glad you like it. It is not easily possible to port a cinnamon applet to any other desktop environment as the applets depend on the cinnamon js runtime. Porting the applet to a different desktop environment than Cinnamon would basically require a significant rewrite of the code.

zvrabec-2 years ago

Hi Jonathan! The problem with volume slider still persists. I can decrease volume, but I can't increase it. (Arch linux+Cinnamon 5.4.9)

Jonathan Heard-2 years ago

I can't reproduce this. Are you sure that you have the newest version installed, which should be: Version 2.1.4 (2022-08-18 22:35:39) - the timestamp is actually important because I forgot to increase the number :-/.

Donatas Šauklys-2 years ago

Volume slider does not work on LM 21.

Jonathan Heard-2 years ago

Should now be fixed

sasa-hein-2 years ago

Hi Jonathan, since i upgradet from LM 20.3 to LM 21, the volume in the applet does not work by mouse. Thanx for your work, realy nice app.

Axel Schneider-2 years ago

Same on LMDE5 after cinnamon update today, with the mouse wheel you can only make it quieter, louder is only up to 5% Nothing works with the mouse button.

jakobjunck-2 years ago

HI, i really appreciate your work. However, the downloaded file cannot be moved (all though it is in /tmp dir). I have to move the file manually before shutting down my machine. Anyone can tell me why this Cjs-Message: 09:04:57.048: JS LOG: [LookingGlass/error] Failed to copy download from tmp dir. The following error occurred: Error moving file /tmp/{Name of file}.mp3: No such file or directory shows up in .xsessions-errors (~) to me ? I assume the problem is that the file contains blank spaces and occurs in line 4331 in radio-applet.js. Anyone can help me? If you need something from my system, just tell me

gitusername33-2 years ago

love this applet; although i have also been unable to get the downloads to work; even after attempting to follow some of the notes in the comments, etc .. . :: :

deo-2 years ago

thanks, works very well. 2 questions: 1- download fails and i think it's because of youtube-dl itself, how can i switch to yt-dlp? 2- is there a way to extend the cached stream?

Jonathan Heard-2 years ago

You can switch to yt-dlp by: right click on applet -> Configure -> Preferences -> YouTube Download CLi tool. Right now there is no way to extend the cached stream but I plan to add this as I expect this to be easy to implement.

Flausch-2 years ago

Works well with manjaro. Download is OK only with some radiostations. Thanks for radio++. I use it often and with pleasure.

richo-2 years ago

thanks

TheTimBrick-2 years ago

Everything works fine for me except the download. I tried youtube-dl and yt-dlp and got nothing. I always get the same error in .xsession-errors. It is always unable to copy the file from the /tmp directory due to it not being able to find the file, although it exists. I think it may be because of the white-spaces and special characters in the mp3 file name but I am not sure how to fix this. Any help will be much appreciated!

Jonathan Heard-2 years ago

Can you post an example file path and which Linux Distro are you using?

TheTimBrick-2 years ago

My distro is Ubuntu 20.04 The download location is /tmp e.x. "/tmp/High Score Girl Ending Full 「Etsuko Yakushimaru - AfterSchoolDi(e)stra(u)ction」.mp3" (real file and location) and the directory it is supposed to move it to is ~/Music/Radio/ Though despite the directory listing saying that the file exists I get the following error in .xsession-errors " Cjs-Message: 16:53:17.958: JS LOG: [LookingGlass/error] Error moving file /tmp/High Score Girl Ending Full 「Etsuko Yakushimaru - AfterSchoolDi(e)stra(u)ction」.mp3: No such file or directory Cjs-Message: 16:53:17.960: JS LOG: [LookingGlass/error] failed to copy from tmp dir. The following error occured " I have observed that it downloads the file perfectly, and even plays good too! It just seems like it is an issue with it copying it to the output directory. Maybe a problem with whites-paces?

deo-2 years ago

i found out the problem being the Radio not existing in Music directory, it worked after i created it manually

Jonathan Heard-2 years ago

I currently don't have much time. I will have a look at the weekend. I don't think that is related to whitespace as I believe they didn't make problems on my PC in the past but I think it might be due to non ASCII characters.

Jonathan Heard-2 years ago

Unfortunately I couldn't reproduce the issue. It is working on my machine even with spaces and special characters. But I made a PR to improve the error handling because actually there should be some more information after the "The following error occurred" sentence. I would appreciate if you could post your error Message again after the pr has been getting merged. Or if you don't want to wait you can alternative replace the `~/.local/share/cinnamon/applets/radio@driglu4it/4.6/applet.js` file on your machine with this file: https://github.com/linuxmint/cinnamon-spices-applets/blob/753ff70dd4480869f20dda42bed7225e8b286032/radio@driglu4it/files/radio@driglu4it/4.6/radio-applet.js

its_hitzz-2 years ago

Firstly this is a great tool that I came across and I love it. One thing I wanted to add , a kind of request , that It does not have all the major channels from India , So Is there any way to add the channels to the list. If this is done then it will be great.

Jonathan Heard-2 years ago

First I am glad you like it. Feel free to press the like button on this page ;-). The stations are downloaded from https://www.radio-browser.info but there is currently no automatism to upgrade them frequently but I want to implement this now. Not sure when I finalize it. In the mean time you can either add a station by yourself in the "My Stations" tab in the settings or by manually upgrading the `~/.local/share/cinnamon/applets/radio@driglu4it/4.6/allStations.json` file with this gist: https://gist.github.com/jonath92/0fd6419a2cfecbbe2f6b6d790dc84298

Wangbo59-2 years ago

Just found this while looking for a substitute for Radiotray which i really liked this is very similar with a few pluses added in I wonder if it is possible to categorize the types of music into groups so is easier to navigate IE Rock, Jazz, Classical, Classic Rock Easy Listening, New Age etc. like Radiotray was set up as it reduces the size of the radios list. Found one sort of bug when adding radios in My stations the bottom station is cut off and covered by the right left slider. and if maximized am limited by the verticle box to only seeing a very limited number of stations would be nice if could drag the box to a larger size. Thanks again for a wonderfuyll app

Jonathan Heard-2 years ago

Yes that feature request has been mentioned in the past already. Unfortunately I currently don't have much time for the applet and if I have time I want to first improve the Code. But pull requests and questions about the Code are always welcome and much appreciated.

MinePro120-2 years ago

Hello again, how does the applet fetch the name of the song? I can't exactly figure it out. I'd like to contribute the name of the song for a station already included.

MinePro120-2 years ago

Figured it out, mpv does it through ICY. I'd like to request a feature then, there cουld be an option to fetch the song title from a URL (a simple GET request), for stations without ICY.

Jonathan Heard-2 years ago

This would be possible only in a limited way at the moment as I can't change the title of the mpv mpris interface but it would be possible to show it in the tooltip and the popup Menu of the applet. For that I would need more information - e.g where comes the URL from? I tried it a long time ago for BBC but couldn't manage to get it... So when you have an example I can look what I can do (or you make a pull request ;-))

MinePro120-2 years ago

Oops, it seems markdown is not supported here ':-D.

MinePro120-2 years ago

I find the URLs myself, for example, for [BBC Radio 6 Music](https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/live:bbc_6music), the title of the song currently playing can be found in [this JSON](https://rms.api.bbc.co.uk/v2/services/bbc_6music/segments/latest?limit=1) (under "data>0>titles").

Jonathan Heard-2 years ago

Yes that's useful thanks. One thing we haven't considered yet is how do we get informed when the title changes? The only solution which comes to my mind is polling which is not so great. Do you have more URLs like that? I can imagine to temporarily hard code some urls and improve it later when we found a more generic solution.

MinePro120-2 years ago

Yeah, polling is what I had in mind... But it could be once every 30s for example, it's reasonable enough. A (more) generic solution would probably be centered around a JSON parser, right? There could be a button to switch between mpv's title and this method, a field for the URL and one for the JSON variable with the title... Although I don't think a good generic solution exists, because fetching the title is API specific (some websites use plaintext, others JSON etc.). So it is probably not worth implementing anything that will only work for a couple of APIs. Also, the way I find the URLs is using the network monitor, in Firefox, on the webpage that contains the title (that changes dynamically) and looking at the responses of the requests that occur when the song changes.

Jonathan Heard-2 years ago

I am sorry MinePro120 but for the moment I won't implement something in that direction. The requirements are at the moment not clear enough and unfortunately I have one million other things to do. Also I don't want to implement something which make the code more unreadable than it is already. But I really appreciate your input and maybe one of us have an idea at some point in the future which would be easier to implement. Also pull requests are always welcome.

MinePro120-2 years ago

Totally understood, it's probably not worth it :).

Andonis-2 years ago

Hi, I love your work !! Thank for it. Is it possible to start one radio in Radio++ from a bash command ? Thank you a lot Context : I would love to be able to start one radio after the connection to my Bluetooth speaker. I wrote a script in bash to connect to my speaker, but I don't know how to start Radio++ from shell.

Jonathan Heard-2 years ago

Yes that is absolutely possible. You don't really start radio++ from a bash command but mpv with the mpris plugin: ``` mpv --config=no --no-video --script=~/.cinnamon/configs/radio@driglu4it/.mpris.so --volume=50 http://wdr-wdr2-rheinruhr.icecast.wdr.de/wdr/wdr2/rheinruhr/mp3/128/stream.mp3 ``` Of course you need to replace the url with one of your stations. One thing you should keep in mind however, is that this only works for starting a channel but not for changing. For that case I think you can use playerctl in your bash script. Let me know if you have any problems.

Andonis-2 years ago

Thank you a lot, I will kill any instance of mpv before running my script

Andonis-2 years ago

Sorry for my previous comment, I just understood that radio++ really need to be stoped !

Andonis-2 years ago

Thank you for your answer, but ``` mpv --config=no --no-video --script=~/.cinnamon/configs/radio@driglu4it/.mpris.so --volume=50 http://wdr-wdr2-rheinruhr.icecast.wdr.de/wdr/wdr2/rheinruhr/mp3/128/stream.mp3 ``` Start the radio but not in the applet radio++. I would like to be able to stop the radio (launch with the script) with the applet. Is it possible ? (I added http://wdr-wdr2-rheinruhr.icecast.wdr.de/wdr/wdr2/rheinruhr/mp3/128/stream.mp3 as one of my radio)

MinePro120-2 years ago

The "--no-video" mpv flag can be used in the line "const command = `mpv..." to discard any video streams, from YouTube for example. Very nice work btw!

Jonathan Heard-2 years ago

Yes that can be added.

BDDbamn-2 years ago

How can I add my favorite home town stations that offer live streaming? I have tried to just copy&paste the URL where the stream player is located, but the player acts like it is attempting to load that station, and then jut stops and doesn't play anything until I change to one of the preset stations already included

Jonathan Heard-2 years ago

Are you sure the URL is valid? If that is the case, can you post the URL here or send me the URL via Mail to JonathanHeard92@gmail.com?

Gros Puf-2 years ago

I configured some prefered radios and rebooted but nothing happens when I click on the radio button. I tried to install the dependancies too. am i doing something wrong ?

Jonathan Heard-2 years ago

This shouldn't happen but I need more information to fix this. Best for this is to open an issue on github https://github.com/linuxmint/cinnamon-spices-applets/issues/new for this with more information such as the Distribution you are using and the applet version.

Gros Puf-2 years ago

lazy to open a bug, but just in case here are some basic infos * Radio++ version 2.0.2 (2022-01-23 09:30:26) * Cinnamon version 5.2.7 * Distribution - Manjaro Linux * Graphics hardware AMD Ryzen 7 PRO 4750U with Radeon Graphics × 8 :*

Jonathan Heard-2 years ago

Please see my reply on Github: https://github.com/linuxmint/cinnamon-spices-applets/issues/4243. This might also be relevant for anybody else having serious problems with version 2.0.2.

hemanti0503-2 years ago

Looks great! Unfortunately, out of 4 streams that I tried so far, only two work. The other just show the media buttons and the rotating loading circle shortly and then switch off again. This happens with default "Chillout" sation and also "WDR 4". Can you reproduce this? Any idea how I can debug that?

Jonathan Heard-2 years ago

The "chillout" station doesn't work anymore. I will remove this as default in the future. I have build the stations list with the api from www.radio-browser.info. Unfortunately the stations currently don't get automatically updated. So at the moment I update them from time to time manually with this script: https://gist.github.com/jonath92/0fd6419a2cfecbbe2f6b6d790dc84298. The last time I updated the station list, the used WDR 4 url was unfortunately invalid. You can still manually update the station by navigating to the "My stations" tab in the settings (this url seems to work for wdr4: http://wdr-wdr4-live.icecast.wdr.de/wdr/wdr4/live/mp3/128/stream.mp3). Of course it is really bad that the stations don't get updated regullary at the moment. I want to implement it at some point in the future.

hemanti0503-2 years ago

WDR 4 works now. Thank you! :) What doesn't work is download. I installed newest youtube-dl. No success (nothing in logs either). I then installed yt-dlp using pip for which I had to include ~/.local/bin in my path. So I'll try again after reboot.

Jonathan Heard-2 years ago

Did it work with yt-dlp? You definitely should either see a download icon next to the applet icon and an info in the tooltip (like here: https://ibb.co/qBwnwwd) or see a failure notification. Maybe the download was just not finished yet? Some people told me that youtube-dl has been pretty slow (that's why I added yt-dlp). In case it didn't work, can you please open an issue on github? It is easier to discuss more complex problems there as in the comment section (the comment section don't allow to upload images and not to edit your post after you submitted it). Thanks :-)

hemanti0503-2 years ago

I have just restarted. Works now with yt-dlp. :) I did get a failure notification before, telling me I should check the logs. Pressing the corresponding button did open a log file, but nothing was in there about this extension.

Jonathan Heard-2 years ago

Ok glad it worked now. I had another look at the code and there must have been some logging. Probably you just have overseen it as there can be a lot of stuff in the logs. Maybe I can improve the logging at some point but it doesn't have a high priority for me

Trotter73-2 years ago

Hi, Great app, thanks ! However, the last update seems to have moved the location and name of the mpris plugin was ~/.config/mpv/scripts/mpris.so now ~/.cinnamon/configs/radio@driglu4it/.mpris.so Not an issue I suppose if it is being installed by the applet, but would be handy if the docs were updated for those who have to compile PiOS64 Bullseye (Cinnamon 4.8.6-2) Radio++ 2.0.1 Regards,

Jonathan Heard-2 years ago

Hi Trotter73, Sorry for the inconvenience and thanks for reporting. The location actually doesn't have changed - it already had been `~/.cinnamon/configs/radio@driglu4it/.mpris.so` before for a very long time. But in the past mpv has been called with the default user configs. This has been changed because for one user this settings lead to open a gui when calling mpv (now mpv is called with the option `--config=no`). So it seems that in the past you could actually either locate the plugin in the ` ~/.config/mpv/scripts` dir or in the `~/.cinnamon/configs/radio@driglu4it/` dir and now only the second option is supported. Buy anyway I will add a note in the readme for those people who have to compile the mpris plugin by themself. Best regards

Mikko-2 years ago

Regarding this, it would be helpful if the error message said the exact path – I just spent some time retracing steps back from the source code to find out what "the configs folder" means exactly. I think you could change this line to say MPRIS_PLUGIN_PATH instead to save others the trouble. Love the applet, keep up the good work! https://github.com/linuxmint/cinnamon-spices-applets/blob/master/radio@driglu4it/src/ui/RadioApplet/RadioAppletContainer.ts#L59

Jonathan Heard-2 years ago

Yes that's a good point, thanks. There is a now an open pr which will improve that.

Trotter73-2 years ago

Hey Jonathan, No inconvenience at all, honestly ! OK cool, I had a read through the recent commits, saw that but didn't put two and two together, I found the location by accident when trying to kill the mpv process :) I'm guessing that is why the path /etc/mpv/scripts didn't work as well ? No drama, it's working great, thanks again. Regards,

Tony-2 years ago

Love it, thank you.

shhoppe-2 years ago

Nice app. I notice though my own station doesn't show artist-title metadata though others streaming with icecast show it. How exactly are you picking up that metadata so that I can make corrections to my own stream?

Jonathan Heard-2 years ago

The applet gets the metadata from the mpris extension from mpv. I think that the mpv mpris extension loads the `xesam-title` metadata from mpv and forwards it to the mpris interface: https://github.com/hoyon/mpv-mpris/blob/c165fd13b25b622199f1dac87a87e630bd86bc8e/mpris.c#L359. Interestingly you always see the `icy-title` instead of `xesam-title` when running mpv in the terminal but I don't understand the difference (I haven't found any documentation describing the difference so far). So basically when you run `mpv YOUR_STREAM_URL` in a terminal and you see something like `icy-title: ...` in the terminal, the radio applet should also show the metadata for this url.

shhoppe-2 years ago

Thanks for the info. I was disappointed to see that when playing my stream in mpv, my icy-title showed my metadata correctly. Further investigation led me to the simple fact that if I have an <intro></intro> in my <mount> block in my icecast.xml, then radio++ (and many other apps too) will simply put up whatever metadata is in the intro file, but then never update after that. It appears that icecast isn't sending a metadata change signal between the intro and the regular stream. So though the music plays in radio++, it never gets the message that the metadata has changed?

Tiago Oliveira-2 years ago

Very nice. Simple, usefull, works great!

haad-2 years ago

Great app!

sdgrs546547Q-3 years ago

excellent extension!

cvdmint-3 years ago

Nice applet however on some Themes the popup comes half on the panel and does not popup above the panel, i tried to change it in the css but did not change , also it seems it does not have an animation. Do you have a solution ?