(old)Puppy Linux Discussion Forum

Posted: **Fri 12 Aug 2005, 11:15**

Radio Puppy

Wonderful. I am trying to understand how you guys are doing this (seems similar to the OO Lanuncher . . .

Hope Barry decides to offer Radio Puppy in 1.0.5 or 1.0.6 . . .

Located this code by right clicking on the launcher (look inside) and then opening the app launcher as text

Code: Select all

$MSG -buttons "Classical:21,Choral:22,Baroque:23,Jazz:24,Rock:25,CBC:26,Cancel" -center -title "Internet Radio" " Internet Radio Demo"
case $? in
  21) URL='http://www.shoutcast.com/sbin/shoutcast-playlist.pls?rn=3381&file=filename.pls' ;;
  22) URL='http://www.shoutcast.com/sbin/shoutcast-playlist.pls?rn=377002&file=filename.pls' ;;
  23) URL='http://www.shoutcast.com/sbin/shoutcast-playlist.pls?rn=4844&file=filename.pls' ;;
  24) URL='http://www.smoothlounge.com/streams/64ogg.pls' ;;
  25) URL='http://www.shoutcast.com/sbin/shoutcast-playlist.pls?rn=2565&file=filename.pls' ;;
  26) URL='http://www.cbc.ca/livemedia/cbcr2-toronto.m3u' ;;
  *) exit ;;
esac

Now if I add extra buttons and links can I have a comedy channel, the BBC
and some ambient music for BladeHunter - who really appreciates that sort of thing - perhaps with some some nice Hymns . . . think that is what he likes . . . tee hee with extra cackle

This is great I will have to find sounds of radio birds twittering and maybe we can arrange some Puppy Podcasts or something?

Not sure if I should be promoting the dark side of OZ (aka R Murdoch) but
these seemed a nice radio selection . . .
http://www.sky.fm/

Are we having fun yet? I am!

Posted: **Mon 15 Aug 2005, 02:14**

i uploaded a 0.0.2 version

Posted: **Mon 15 Aug 2005, 04:11**

where?

Posted: **Mon 15 Aug 2005, 06:55**

it's uploaded to the same place (i uploaded a new version of the same file)

took me a while to find it ... guess it was moved
http://www.murga.org/~puppy/viewtopic.php?t=1745

just a demo, but you can easily edit it to put in your own urls

maybe there's a radio program or playlist program that would do the same thing, somewhere

i also tried reading a text file with a list of radio stations to a variable ... i didn't get that to work yet

Posted: **Mon 15 Aug 2005, 08:17**

yep I looked all over - forum and dotpups - glad you located it . . .

When you click on a file or OK the program closes - ideally should remain open (you close when satisfied with your selection)

The idea of calling a text file of links would be ideal
that way we can have different preferences on the wiki
or different dotpups of particular selections . . .

Quite often I try these radio progs and half the selections or more do not work (that is no reflection on the program - just the links - this is true of the Xine default links)

So I wonder if such a thing as digital "live link tuner" can be incorporated?

One way would be to get the text reader working and then supply an
"update radio stations" button

But recognizing whether links are live and removing or restricting them is a more intriguing possibility . . .
(so no dead or dummy stations - which of course are not present at present . . . )

That may be something to consider when we move to ALSA . . . which may allow for a command ("If ALSA sound=True Then Link= "Live") or something like that . . .

XINE seems to have "media links" which can be updated and called from within the program - perhaps this can be done from the command line . . .

It is great to have a working internet radio