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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
Seek backward/forward

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 mainainter. 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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253 Comments

Padre2-1 day 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-1 day 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-1 week ago

Applet stopped working after I upgraded Cinnamon to 6.0.4

Tony-2 months ago

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

Tony-2 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-4 months ago

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

archiebug-4 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-4 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-4 months ago

Did you also try with yt-dlp?

tomaasz-7 months ago

could you add codec/bitrate info ?

FoulerTripod363-7 months ago

Amazing app and amazing developer keep the good work!

Rodrigo100-dev-8 months 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-8 months 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-8 months 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.

guy6308-2 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-8 months ago

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

angelotux-10 months ago

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

NorfLoud-10 months 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-10 months 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-10 months 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-10 months 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-10 months ago

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

TimeWaster-10 months 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-10 months 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-10 months ago

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

Jonathan Heard-10 months 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-10 months 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-10 months 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-10 months 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-10 months ago

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

Jonathan Heard-10 months 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-10 months 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-10 months 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-1 year 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-1 year 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-1 year ago

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

Jonathan Heard-1 year 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-1 year 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-1 year ago

Ok thanks for the clarification. Very interesting.

johnnrandall-1 year ago

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

Jonathan Heard-1 year 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-1 year 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-1 year 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-1 year 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-1 year ago

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

wojtastytus-1 year 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-1 year 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-1 year 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-1 year 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.

wmr500-1 year 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-1 year 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

elvino1-1 year ago

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

Jonathan Heard-1 year ago

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

elvino1-1 year ago

Thanks Jonathan

mpauld77-1 year 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-1 year 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-1 year 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-1 year 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-1 year ago

Volume slider does not work on LM 21.

Jonathan Heard-1 year ago

Should now be fixed

sasa-hein-1 year 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-1 year 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-1 year 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

gitusername33-1 year 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-1 year 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-1 year 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-1 year 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!