Summary
radio-active gets our strong recommendation. If you like terminal apps and listening to radio stations, you’ll love radio-active. It’s heads and shoulders above PyRadio and curseradio.
Many internet radio players struggle with the BBC HD radio streams. How a tool copes with these streams is a good bellwether for the program’s capabilities. We’re really happy that radio-active handles them with aplomb. And radio-active works well with all the streams we’ve explored.
Memory usage is fairly frugal. There’s a good range of features although there’s lots of things we’d like added such as bitrate information on streams, and help in finding trending and popular stations.
radio-active doesn’t have that many GitHub stars which is frankly a disgrace. Never be put off trying a project just because it doesn’t have thousands or tens of thousands of stars.
Website: github.com/deep5050/radio-active
Support:
Developer: Dipankar Pal
License: MIT License
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Pages in this article:
Page 1 – Introduction / Installation
Page 2 – In Operation
Page 3 – Memory Usage
Page 4 – Summary
I have had little luck with radio apps, they seem to be static and crackle for me. I just use by web browser with streema or radiovolna.
There’s no luck involved with radio-active. Installation is very simple, and playback is without static or crackle.
Interesting.
The best source would actually be radio-browser where you can find and connect to streams to test them.
If they work in the browser, they’ll work in the application.
However, I’d go with pyradio – as it’s a far far more user friendly application than this radio.
The software uses that web directory for the stations so just search within the app.
I’ve never had any radio app have ‘static’ or ‘crackle’.
Quite enjoying this. Any way I can get Pulse to work with it for independent volume control?