PyRadio 0.2 Released

June 12, 2009

PyRadio 0.2, the curses based Internet radio player which I develop, is now available!

Changes since the last release include:

  • External radio stations file
  • Page up/down to move up and down 5 stations at a time
  • The selected station remains highlighted when you move about
  • Volume up/down keys
  • Additional radio stations

The latest code available via GitHub, and you can download the 0.2 release from the project page.

Thanks to everyone who left feedback and suggestions about the 0.1 release!

If you find any bugs or would like to request any features then please leave a comment.

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6 Comments »

  1. Hi,
    just shared this great lil script with the openmoko community.
    see at http://n2.nabble.com/Lightweight-music-player%3A-pyradio-tp3284052p3284052.html

    also i was thinking about reading the csv file from a subdirectory of the user’s home. something like :
    [line 244] csvFile = “%s/.pyradio/stations.csv” % os.getenv(“HOME”)

    and what about updating your right menu pages’ section: it still points to pyradio 0.1 ;)

    keep up the good work !

    Comment by zupert — July 19, 2009 @ 12:15 pm

  2. Hi Zupert,

    Thanks for posting about PyRadio, it’d be great to have more users!

    You can specify where to load the stations.csv file from as a command line argument, but I agree that there could be a better default. I didn’t want to go with ~/.pyradio for this release though as it’d require me to create packages rather than just shipping a .csv file and .py file. Maybe for 0.3 though!

    The 0.1 page was the main pyradio page but I thought I should create a new main page because of all the 0.1 related comments. For the 0.2 release I just did this post, which doesn’t show up as a page at the side. I’ve linked to this post from the main pyradio page though, so hopefully people will find it.

    Thanks again,

    Ben

    Comment by Ben — July 21, 2009 @ 7:04 pm

  3. I was looking for python + curses source code as I’m learning python at the moment and came across pyradio via FreshMeat.net. Very nicely done

    Keep up the good work :)

    Comment by Mike — August 27, 2009 @ 1:58 pm

  4. Thanks Mike!

    Comment by Ben — August 28, 2009 @ 8:30 pm

  5. There should be a way to stop playing without having to exit. Sort of like a pause, except due to the fact that it’s live radio, you can’t really pause it. I guess turning the volume down all of the way with one key press (perhaps “space”) is what I’m looking for.

    Comment by Erik — February 21, 2010 @ 4:13 pm

  6. Hi Erik,

    Thanks for the suggestion. I’ll add this feature in the next version.

    Thanks, Ben

    Comment by Ben — February 21, 2010 @ 5:32 pm

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