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Radion, an internet radio CLI client, written in Bash. (lemmy.world)
submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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radion is an internet radio CLI client, written in Bash.

https://gitlab.com/christosangel/radion

Radion can be customized as far as the station selecting program is concerned. The user can choose between:

  • read

read

  • fzf

fzf

  • rofi

rofi

  • dmenu

dmenu

Update: Introduced new feature: customizing prompt text for fzf dmenu and rofi.

Update: MacOS support added now thanks to Andrea Schäfer

Also, I was forced by my daughter to add some anime radio stations...

Update: Recording functionality added, with the use of another (you guessed it) bash script

icy

Also options in read as Preferred selector are also case insensitive.

Any feedback is appreciated!

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[–] [email protected] 51 points 1 year ago (1 children)

In bash? Impressive!

[–] [email protected] 39 points 1 year ago (5 children)

My first thought every time I see a pure bash project: "wow" followed by "but... why".

I get that we have bash on most machines, reducing dependencies, all that jazz. But it's so painful to do anything nontrivial with it. There are so many small potential papercuts and edge cases, I'd rather pull my teeth out with a pair of pliers than code more than a simple script in it.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 year ago (1 children)

That’s why it’s impressive. It’s not easy.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Oh, for sure, but to me it's "building a car with a screwdriver" impressive. It's impressive that the feat is doable at all, but why one would subject themselves to this eludes me haha.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Some people just have a natural affinity, I guess. If it made the programmer happy and it’s not full of maliciously exploitable bugs, why not?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Oh, for sure! But I'm a developer myself, so like most of us, I tend to take my technical opinions as gospel by default 😉

Sometimes it can be fun to push your limits or see how far you can go down some personally motivated rabbit hole. Just saying, I'd never do it with bash myself. Don't get me wrong, I write bash scripts all the damn time, but the second it gets more complicated than aligning a handful of simple commands without too much output parsing BS, requiring some obscure awk one liner nobody understands after 2 days, I bail out to something less awkward.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 year ago (1 children)

My entire homelab env is written in "pure bash". Bare metal deployments, creation, build, deployment, update, and backup, of docker containers (which are also just convenience wrappers around other pure bash projects of mine.). Etc...

I do it because I got sick of losing data, work, workflow or convenience to black boxes I didn't create myself. Hell, even with my third party projects like Plex I have a lot of bash automation around extracting playlists from the internal sqlite db, etc. It really shifts your perspective on what's possible when you build things by hand yourself.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I've been working as a dev for 8+ years, been programming for much longer. Yes, many things are possible with bash. Many things are also possible using straight assembly, but nobody does that - for good reasons...

Many of those problems you mentioned have well established, open source solutions that should not end up in lost work or data. Building things yourself also has the downside of maintaining those things, and dealing with your own (inevitable) failures yourself too. I'd rather trust established solutions for things as complex as provisioning than roll my own. But whatever works for you.

If I were to write that much code by hand, I'd just choose something saner than bash, purely from a language perspective. That's all.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

It's not like I don't use open source solutions, I use docker for example rather than automating chroots/cgroups by hand in bash. I just use them as little as possible. While you're correct, I don't lose data in a well designed open source project, I do lose work, workflow, and convenience when those projects change or shut down. What's really nice about the pure bash solutions is they're entirely portable once you have them dialed in. If I wanted to switch from docker back to vms or forward to something like harvester/rancher/k3s I'd be able to port the projects very trivially. If I built everything around one of those projects in mind, all of my work would rely on it not changing. I acknowledge it's sometimes a little more work but it's work that I get to decide when to do, not when the project maintainers decide it for me.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago

Everything is not pure bash here, it's a radio frontend for mpv. It is also using sed, awk... A standard bash use case actually.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

Not to mention the tool isn't meant to be anything more than glue between other programs

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

Keep in mind that what you find painful, some people find fun :)

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Well, I know what I'll be using to listen to my radio stations from now on. Really neat project!

Also, it doesn't pick up user defined tags because it's looking in the wrong place for them!

Row 114:

TAGS=( $(sed 's/ /\n/g' stations.txt |grep "#"|grep -v "#Favorites"|sort|uniq|sed 's/#//g') )

Should be

TAGS=( $(sed 's/ /\n/g' $HOME/.cache/radion/stations.txt |grep "#"|grep -v "#Favorites"|sort|uniq|sed 's/#//g') )

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 year ago
  • Excellent catch! This one slipped through! I just fixed the bug, thank you very much!

I am happy you like it!

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 year ago (1 children)

This looks crazy promising for us sxmo users ... I'll def check this out.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I must admit I had to look sxmo up...

thx!

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

How can we connect... I'm having weird graphical issues.... But I might be drunk and missing something. Tomorrow morning I'll send a video

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago

Very cool. You might want to crosspost this to c/bash on lemmy.ml

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Unrelated but, in case it's not dyslexia, it's "customize" not "costumize". It comes from "custom" not "costume".

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

You are right, lapsus calami...

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (3 children)

No metal, blues, or dnb option?

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago

Through the script you could go to https://www.radio-browser.info/search?page=1&order=clickcount&reverse=true&hidebroken=true&tagList=metal, pick the stations you fancy and headbang yourself unconscious... 🎸 🤘

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

De gustibus et coloribus...

Each user can create add and enjoy any tag and station they like!

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Hmm soma has that

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

Awesome :) I think I shall set this up in Termux later for one more on the go music option.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

Update: Recording functionality added, with the use of another (you guessed it) bash script

icy

Also options in read as Preferred selector are also case insensitive.

Any feedback is appreciated!