New tiny project: webradios

I have recently configured a laptop to act as a media box.
We use pytone to stream all our music files (ogg/mp3), but couldn’t find any small command-line application able to play radio streams, with an easy-to-use and intuitive interface. The challenge is that the laptop doesn’t run any X server.

I have thus begun writing a script (called webradios, at least temporarily), which uses (X)dialog. It simply displays a list of pre-defined audio streams, and acts purely as a front-end for mplayer. At the moment, nothing very exciting but it already does its job!

Here are some screenshots:

The TODO list is almost as big as the script itself, and mainly includes implementing basic features like;

• handling options and arguments
• automating download of the list of streams
• accepting stream URL to be passed as argument
• l10n (currently only available in French)
• adding the possibility to edit the list of streams from the GUI (add and remove)

I do not plan releasing it publicly for the moment, but I am sure it can interest people.

Some of the ideas and parts of the code were inspired from another script available on http://ubunteros.tuxfamily.org/spip.php?article51.