In Operation
Here’s an image of SonicRadio in action.
We’re in the browse section. It uses the awesome radio browser API to retrieve stations information. By default, only 30 stations are shown at a time, but this limit can be increased from the search view. The software uses mpv or FFplay to play the streams.
We can mark a station as a favourite with the f keybinding, and switch to our Favourites list with F. There’s a history section which shows stations you’ve listened to.
Some of the common keybindings are permanently displayed. For more keybindings press the ? key, which gives you additional keybindings such as station information and changing the volume.
There’s also a Settings section which lets you set the max number of entries for the history section, a choice of 8 themes and which player to use (mpv or FFplay).
Summary
There’s a lot to like about SonicRadio. It’s frugal with resources, it’s stable, and has a great text-based user interface.
At first glance, the selection of stations appears very limiting. But you just need to open the search view (accessed by pressing the s keybinding). You will then find a huge range of stations courtesy of the integration of the Radio Browser API.
SonicRadio gets our recommendation. It’s a wonderful open source internet radio program you won’t find in your distro’s software repositories.
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Website: github.com/dancnb/sonicradio
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Developer: Bogdan Ceausu
License: MIT License
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Pages in this article:
Page 1 – Introduction and Installation
Page 2 – In Operation and Summary