Last Updated on November 5, 2020
In operation
Here’s an image of odio at startup.
The interface is simply gorgeous. At the top left is “My Library”, a place to save your favorite stations. You populate your library by moving your mouse over a radio stream. A heart icon appears, and you can click that icon. That action adds the station to your library.
Here’s my library populated with 12 stations.
You can edit your library although sadly there’s no option to rearrange them. But the jiggling stations are great!
You can also view a station profile by moving the mouse over a station. This isn’t for academic interest. Some stations have multiple entries. Looking at the station profile helps you choose the stream with the highest bitrate.
There’s also a Recently viewed section, but this only populates when you view a station profile. I’m not sure if this is a bug or by design.
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I’ve just tried out odio this afternoon. It’s interface is beguiling. Shame there’s no source code, as I’ve got a few features I’d like to add, or at least contribute the framework.
I agree, without the source code we cannot help the project, except in a very limited way. It seems the developer is uncertain as to what open source license to choose, he’s even asked on his GitHub page what license to choose.
Maybe LinuxLinks can take a look at an open source radio player like Shortwave (badly named but an interesting project). It was called Gradio, dunno why the name change?
Yes, I’ve written an article about Shortwave, it should be published this week.
“memory also ramps up here, approaching 1 GB of RAM”
Sounds like the application is “leaking memory” badly.
But with a closed source , binary image only program, who knows what else it is doing.
“what else it is doing” — for the avoidance of any doubt, there’s nothing to suggest that odio is doing anything nefarious.
Web technologies applications seem to prone to memory issues, this isn’t the first multimedia app that uses big globs of memory when running for a few hours. As you say without the source code, there’s not much anyone can do to see what is causing it.
It does not start here. Nor does it print error messages either. Nothing.
$ sudo snap install odio
$ snap run odio
Nothing appears.
What does this software do?
NO SOURCE CODE AVAILABLE !
I run:
$ lsb_release -a
Description: Ubuntu 18.10 64bit
Why dont you try the AppImage?
I’d like to use this app on PCLinuxOS but this distro doesn’t use systemd do snaps are out. I can’t find the AppImage that is mentioned – any clues as to where to find it, if it does actually exist? (I’ve got the snap running fine on openSUSE)
The AppImage is on the project’s GitHub
https://github.com/odioapp/odio/releases
Why on earth would Luke Baker make it up that an AppImage exists. Maybe you should open your eyes?
Thank-you very much, downloaded and installed successfully on PCLinuxOS.
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Yes, the developer of odio abandoned the open source model and released a proprietary app under a different name.
Fortunately, there are free and open source (FOSS) internet radio apps that are way better than odio ever was. Here’s our roundup of the best FOSS graphical internet radio apps. There’s also a best FOSS terminal internet radio apps roundup too!