The “easy” way to listen to internet radio in Ubuntu
I started with rhythmbox like most new Ubuntu users. It seemed nice enough but not in the area I was concerned with, internet radio. I tried out many players but was disappointed with different areas of different players. From Ubuntu 8.04 to 8.10 I was using the “good” Amarok (for KDE 3.5). Disappointed by the exclusion of that version in Ubuntu Jaunty 9.04 and unimpressed with workarounds like the PPA’s, I decided to play the field. I came across Exaile, which I’ve blogged about in the past. It’s a good enough player… most of the time. It crashed too often for my likings and I’m getting sick of pkilling it.
It struck me today that I needed a simplier more streamlined solution for my simple needs. I needed a console application. Through a little research, I found moc, which happens to play shoutcast streams as I’ve become accustom to.
I then proceeded to set myself the following way:
sudo apt-get install moc mkdir -p ~/Music/internet_radio && cd ~/Music/internet_radio wget -r -l2 -nd -Nc -A.pls http://www.di.fm/index.php for file in *.pls; do mocp -a $file; done mocp
1) Installed moc
2) created a directory to download all the playlists from di.fm (since this is the station I listen to most often)
3) wget all the playlists
4) add them all to moc
5) start moc and [tab] to the play list side, enter to play
enter -- starts playing
s -- stops playing
n -- plays next item from the playlist
b -- plays previous item from the playlist
space -- pause
p -- pause
S -- plays at random
R -- repeats the same song in a loop,
Next (X button below) must be OFF
X -- switches to play sequentially
o -- plays a file from the Internet
u -- moves playlist item up
j -- moves playlist item down
Ctrl+u -- adds the URL to the playlist
g -- searches marked string in file names
/ -- searches marked string in file names
r -- rereads the directory
T -- switches to the theme selection menu
f -- toggles display mode of song titles
TAB -- switches marker bar between the playlist
and the file manager panels
l -- switches between displaying the playlist
or the file manager panel
P -- switches full path in the playlist
H -- toggles hidden files view
Ctrl-t -- toggles song duration time
Ctrl-f -- toggles format file view
m -- moves to directory entered in config file
G -- moves to directory with currently played file
i -- moves to marked directory
U -- moves to upper directory
a -- adds a file to the playlist
A -- adds a directory recursively to the playlist
C -- clears the playlist
V -- saves the playlist
d -- removes marked item from the playlist
Y -- removes all empty items from the playlist
< -- decreases volume by 1%
, -- decreases volume by 5%
> -- increases volume by 1%
. -- increases volume by 5%
x -- toggles the mixer channel
? -- shows help
! -- goes to a fast dir 1 (set in config file)
@ -- goes to a fast dir 2
# -- goes to a fast dir 3
$ -- goes to a fast dir 4
% -- goes to a fast dir 5
^ -- goes to a fast dir 6
& -- goes to a fast dir 7
* -- goes to a fast dir 8
( -- goes to a fast dir 9
) -- goes to a fast dir 10
F1 -- executes ExecCommand1 (set in config file)
F2 -- executes ExecCommand2
F3 -- executes ExecCommand3
F4 -- executes ExecCommand4
F5 -- executes ExecCommand5
F6 -- executes ExecCommand6
F7 -- executes ExecCommand7
F8 -- executes ExecCommand8
F9 -- executes ExecCommand9
F10 -- executes ExecCommand10
Above commands from polish linux’s article on moc audo player, great resource.
