Tuner

Tuner – radio station player

Summary

Tuner is splendid software that lets you listen to internet radio stations. While the program is designed for elementary OS, we had no issues running it on other Linux distros including Ubuntu and Manjaro.

Even though the software is in an early stage of development, it’s stable in use. And most of the essential features are already present.

Tuner is probably going to replace Shortwave as our favourite internet radio streamer particularly when the developer has added more filtering options and the ability to show the stream bitrate. The latter would be useful as there are duplicates of stations in the community database with some having a higher bitrate.

Website: github.com/louis77/tuner
Support:
Developer: Louis Brauer
License: GNU General Public License v3.0

Tuner is written in Vala. Learn Vala with our recommended free books and free tutorials.

Pages in this article:
Page 1 – Introduction / Installation
Page 2 – In Operation
Page 3 – Other Features
Page 4 – Summary

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Cuppycake
Cuppycake
3 years ago

Are any TV stations included or do you have to add IPTV m3u list .. love the blog on the G2 by the way ,bought one myself ( i5-6500T) and very pleased with its performance running Linux mint ?

UUUnicorn
UUUnicorn
3 years ago

Tuner doesn’t show up in my Ubuntu Budgie launcher! (*SIGH!*)

Londoner
Londoner
3 years ago

You can change the station order and edit the favorites list by editing a json file. If you installed Tuner via Flatpak, it’s at ~/.var/app/com.github.louis77.tuner/data/com.github.louis77.tuner

Harry T
Harry T
3 years ago
Reply to  Londoner

Pretty lame you have to edit a json file to do something so obvious.

Vince C
Vince C
3 years ago

I never knew about Tuner. Thanks so much!

Jumping Jack
Jumping Jack
3 years ago

Tuner is actually very good. An undiscovered gem!

ARF
ARF
3 years ago

Tuner now shows codec and bitrate for each station.

wgparch
wgparch
1 year ago

I am glad I searched and discovered Tuner nice nice I prefer it over shortwave!

Mah
Mah
1 year ago

On Ubuntu 22.10, I had to install geocode-glib.git and do ‘sudo apt install gtk-doc-tools’ for that.

nekrub2
nekrub2
1 year ago

Wordeful tool. Just one question: Can you export your favorites and reimport them on an other device?

HaikoB
HaikoB
1 year ago

I have an error:
WARNING: CMake Toolchain: Failed to determine CMake compilers state
Run-time dependency geocode-glib-1.0 found: NO (tried pkgconfig and cmake)
what i have to do???
Thank you