What do you use for radio?

[Snap]

I use to have the classic jazz channel from jazzradio.com playing on Clementine in other systems, but I don't want to install clementine on vsido at first instance. Radiotray never worked good for me so I didn't even bothered to try. Tried cli radio and mplayer directly but cannot make this particular channel to play. Any tips?

Also, any recommendations about lightweight or cli radio players?

[zephyr]

@snap: I use radiotray, it is the only thing that works well for me. I use a few of the stations, each a little different but provides some good tunes instead of listening to my CD collection. Occasionally there is a very short pause or disruption in the stream, other than that it works quite well. - zephyr

[PackRat]

@snap -

I think pithos and pandora are (still) the streaming music players installed with vsido. I've used pandora a bit and it's pretty good.

[jedi]

@snap PackRat is correct and Pithos is superb.  Really easy to create great 'stations' for hours of entertainment...

[Snap]

Occasionally there is a very short pause or disruption in the stream

I'd say it's more than occasional. It annoys me a lot and it's the reason why I avoid it.

Pythos! Is it still a default app? I don't remember having purged it... Maybe I did it. I have zero experience with it. Never fired it up. Time to give it a go. Thanks for the tips, guys.

[Snap]

Now I remembered why I never used pithos... 

We are deeply, deeply sorry to say that due to licensing constraints, we can no longer allow access to Pandora for listeners located outside of the U.S., Australia and New Zealand. We will continue to work diligently to realize the vision of a truly global Pandora, but for the time being we are required to restrict its use. We are very sad to have to do this, but there is no other alternative.

[PackRat]

Streamtuner and spotify get good reviews. I have not used either.

[jedi]

I have used (still use) Spotify.  It is another good one!

[ozitraveller]

Old school!

[Snap]

Never heard of streamtuner, I'll check it out. Spotify? No thanks. Such ugly heavy beast. Clementine does it far better.

Nevertheless, for a single radio channel (just what I want) I'll keep trying to get mplayer working with that specific radio.

[Snap]

Yes!!! 

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mplayer -playlist http://listen.jazzradio.com/public3/classicjazz.pls?0b8c8413445830acd1b22421


Or this nice entry in the menu:

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xfce4-terminal --tab --drop-down -T "Radio" -e "mplayer -playlist http://listen.jazzradio.com/public3/classicjazz.pls?0b8c8413445830acd1b22421"

PS; For anyone interested in the other JazzRadio.com channels here they go:

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http://listen.jazzradio.com/public3/smoothjazz247.pls?0b8c8413445830acd1b22421
http://listen.jazzradio.com/public3/pariscafe.pls?0b8c8413445830acd1b22421
http://listen.jazzradio.com/public3/cooljazz.pls?0b8c8413445830acd1b22421
http://listen.jazzradio.com/public3/smoothjazz.pls?0b8c8413445830acd1b22421
http://listen.jazzradio.com/public3/pianojazz.pls?0b8c8413445830acd1b22421
http://listen.jazzradio.com/public3/hardbop.pls?0b8c8413445830acd1b22421
http://listen.jazzradio.com/public3/fusionlounge.pls?0b8c8413445830acd1b22421
http://listen.jazzradio.com/public3/vocallegends.pls?0b8c8413445830acd1b22421
http://listen.jazzradio.com/public3/latinjazz.pls?0b8c8413445830acd1b22421
http://listen.jazzradio.com/public3/bluesrock.pls?0b8c8413445830acd1b22421
http://listen.jazzradio.com/public3/blues.pls?0b8c8413445830acd1b22421
http://listen.jazzradio.com/public3/timelessclassics.pls?0b8c8413445830acd1b22421
http://listen.jazzradio.com/public3/smoothuptempo.pls?0b8c8413445830acd1b22421
http://listen.jazzradio.com/public3/vocaljazz.pls?0b8c8413445830acd1b22421
http://listen.jazzradio.com/public3/pianotrios.pls?0b8c8413445830acd1b22421
http://listen.jazzradio.com/public3/guitarjazz.pls?0b8c8413445830acd1b22421
http://listen.jazzradio.com/public3/smoothlounge.pls?0b8c8413445830acd1b22421
http://listen.jazzradio.com/public3/classicjazz.pls?0b8c8413445830acd1b22421
http://listen.jazzradio.com/public3/trumpetjazz.pls?0b8c8413445830acd1b22421
http://listen.jazzradio.com/public3/currentjazz.pls?0b8c8413445830acd1b22421
http://listen.jazzradio.com/public3/bassjazz.pls?0b8c8413445830acd1b22421
http://listen.jazzradio.com/public3/vibraphonejazz.pls?0b8c8413445830acd1b22421
http://listen.jazzradio.com/public3/gypsyjazz.pls?0b8c8413445830acd1b22421
http://listen.jazzradio.com/public3/saxophonejazz.pls?0b8c8413445830acd1b22421
http://listen.jazzradio.com/public3/mellowjazz.pls?0b8c8413445830acd1b22421
http://listen.jazzradio.com/public3/straightahead.pls?0b8c8413445830acd1b22421
http://listen.jazzradio.com/public3/bebop.pls?0b8c8413445830acd1b22421
http://listen.jazzradio.com/public3/bossanova.pls?0b8c8413445830acd1b22421
http://listen.jazzradio.com/public3/smoothvocals.pls?0b8c8413445830acd1b22421
http://listen.jazzradio.com/public3/swingnbigband.pls?0b8c8413445830acd1b22421
http://listen.jazzradio.com/public3/sinatrastyle.pls?0b8c8413445830acd1b22421
http://listen.jazzradio.com/public3/avantgarde.pls?0b8c8413445830acd1b22421

For me classic jazz and gypsy jazz are the two channels that commonly sound in the background while doing anything else.

[Snap]

Next step trying to get the song names and artists displayed along in conkymoc. I guess i should rename it conkymm or somthing like that if I manage to make it work.

[hakerdefo]

Snap, your topic here made me think why not create a radio player for VSIDO? How hard can it be? The result?
Here it is, 'RADIO VSIDO', VSIDO's very own radio player. I've posted it in the Script's section. Have a look and let me know,

RADIO VSIDO

Cheers!!!

[Snap]

Sounds great to me, hackerdefo.

I borrowed and tweaked a simple script to select one from a selection of the channels posted before and added it to the menu instead of the single channel line. But sure your script is better. Let me have a look.