Suggestions needed for internet radio stream launcher

[anika200]

What can I do to have a dead simple way to launch an internet radio stream preferably with Amarok but other ideas welcome. I would like to just use an icon or something easy.

My wife and others I am sure have trouble locating the saved playlist in Amarok so I would like to have an icon she can click on to start a radio stream like this one http://wamu-1.streamguys.com/wamu-1.aac

[Rog132]

With the VLC

Right clicking the K-Menu Icon > Edit Applications

1 - New Item
2 - Name: Wamu
3 - Command: vlc http://wamu-1.streamguys.com/wamu-1.aac
4 - Icon



and saving.


Now there is a new item in the menu - Wamu - Right clicking it.



and adding it to the desktop.


Clicking the Wamu icon in the desktop.



and the VLC is streaming.

[anika200]

Right clicking the K-Menu Icon > Edit Applications

1 - New Item
2 - Name: Wamu
3 - Command: vlc http://wamu-1.streamguys.com/wamu-1.aac
4 - Icon
and saving.
Now there is a new item in the menu - Wamu - Right clicking it.
and adding it to the desktop.
Clicking the Wamu icon in the desktop.
and the VLC is streaming.

Wow I love it, this is greatest desktop and forum. Thank you

Do Not let this comment discourage other suggestions, I like options

[anika200]

If you follow Rog132 help above and want to start the stream Without any windows use this command at step 3:

vlc --qt-start-minimized [URL]http://wamu-1.streamguys.com/wamu-1.aac[/URL]

BTW, I find VLC to use many less resources for steaming than Amarok. Well hold up, now it is using more suddenly.... hmmm

[vinnywright]

their is also

vinny@vinnys-HP-G62:~$ apt search radio tray
Sorting... Done
Full Text Search... Done
betaradio/trusty 1.5-1ubuntu1 amd64
  Internet radio of Taiwan

[COLOR=#ff0000]radiotray/trusty 0.7.3-1ubuntu1 all
  online radio streaming player[/COLOR]

it puts an icon in the system tray from witch you can start or stop a variety of pre installed streams and/or add your own custom ones

VINNY

[Rod J]

+1 for Radio Tray.

The only issue I have with it is the missing icon in the System Tray (just appears as a generic "?" icon??). I downloaded the latest version (0.7.3) Ubuntu deb which was supposed to fix that issue but it still doesn't show the proper icon in Kubuntu 12.04. Other than that minor issue it works just great!

[GreyGeek]

When I read the OP I thought he wanted to stream an audio source out to the Internet. The vlc is great for that, too!

[Rog132]

More options...

The SMPlayer (mplayer/mplayer2) can play streams.




and the QMPlayer2 (ffmpeg) can play streams.



and the Mplayer(2) + konsole:

~$ mplayer http://wamu-1.streamguys.com/wamu-1.aac

MPlayer 1.1-4.8 (C) 2000-2012 MPlayer Team

Playing http://wamu-1.streamguys.com/wamu-1.aac.
Resolving wamu-1.streamguys.com for AF_INET6...
Resolving wamu-1.streamguys.com for AF_INET...
Connecting to server wamu-1.streamguys.com[204.93.207.172]: 80...

Name   : WAMU
Genre  : Various
Website: http://www.audiorealm.com
Public : no
Bitrate: 48kbit/s
Cache size set to 320 KBytes

Cache fill:  0.00% (0 bytes)   
Cache fill:  0.00% (0 bytes)   
Cache fill:  2.50% (8192 bytes)   
ICY Info: StreamTitle='';StreamUrl='';

Cache fill: 10.00% (32768 bytes)   
Cache fill: 17.50% (57344 bytes)   

AAC file format detected.
==========================================================================
Opening audio decoder: [ffmpeg] FFmpeg/libavcodec audio decoders
libavcodec version 54.35.0 (external)
AUDIO: 44100 Hz, 2 ch, floatle, 0.0 kbit/0.00% (ratio: 0->352800)
Selected audio codec: [ffaac] afm: ffmpeg (FFmpeg AAC (MPEG-2/MPEG-4 Audio))
==========================================================================
AO: [pulse] 44100Hz 2ch floatle (4 bytes per sample)
Video: no video
Starting playback...

Konsole radio can be added to the menu....

konsole -e mplayer http://wamu-1.streamguys.com/wamu-1.aac