Radio++

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UUID: radio@driglu4it

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2 weeks ago 2022-11-17, 10:34

Last commit: [165c7a0a] radio-hotfix (#4563)

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

README

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.

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204 Comments

invexx-3 weeks 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-3 weeks 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.

invexx-2 weeks ago

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

Jonathan Heard-2 weeks 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 weeks 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 weeks ago

Ok thanks for the clarification. Very interesting.

johnnrandall-2 months ago

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

Jonathan Heard-3 weeks 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 months 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 months 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 months 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 months ago

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

wojtastytus-2 months 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 months 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 months 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 months 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 months 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 months 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

elvino1-3 months ago

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

Jonathan Heard-2 months ago

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

elvino1-2 months ago

Thanks Jonathan

mpauld77-3 months 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 months 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-3 months 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-3 months 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-3 months ago

Volume slider does not work on LM 21.

Jonathan Heard-3 months ago

Should now be fixed

sasa-hein-3 months 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-3 months 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-5 months 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

gitusername33-5 months 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-6 months 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-6 months 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-6 months ago

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

richo-7 months ago

thanks

TheTimBrick-7 months 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-7 months ago

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

TheTimBrick-7 months 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-6 months ago

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

Jonathan Heard-7 months 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-7 months 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-7 months 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-7 months 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

Wangbo59-8 months 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-8 months 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.

MinePro120-9 months 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.

MinePro120-9 months 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-9 months 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 ;-))

MinePro120-9 months ago

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

MinePro120-9 months 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-9 months 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.

MinePro120-9 months 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-9 months 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.

MinePro120-9 months ago

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

Andonis-9 months 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-9 months 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-9 months ago

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

Andonis-9 months ago

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

Andonis-9 months 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)

MinePro120-9 months 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-9 months ago

Yes that can be added.

BDDbamn-10 months 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-10 months 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-10 months 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-10 months 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-10 months 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-10 months 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.

hemanti0503-10 months 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-10 months 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.

hemanti0503-10 months 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-10 months 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 :-)

hemanti0503-10 months 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-10 months 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

Trotter73-10 months 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-10 months 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-10 months 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-10 months ago

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

Trotter73-10 months 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-11 months ago

Love it, thank you.

shhoppe-11 months 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-11 months 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-11 months 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-11 months ago

Very nice. Simple, usefull, works great!

haad-1 year ago

Great app!

sdgrs546547Q-1 year ago

excellent extension!

cvdmint-1 year 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 ?