Wanted - lightweight program to play internet radio audio streams - especially BBC

Johnny Rosenberg gurus.knugum at gmail.com
Thu Mar 29 04:32:30 UTC 2012


Den 27 mars 2012 10:50 skrev Chris Green <cl at isbd.net>:
> I'm having very little luck in finding a reasonably lightweight program
> to listen to live radio streams, in particular the ones from the BBC.
>
> I don't want/need any form of playlist, GUI, etc. I just want to be able
> to feed an audio stream URL into the program and get to listen to the
> live broadcast.
>
> I don't want to have to run a browser to drive it either, ideally I want
> a command line (i.e. no GUI, no need for X) program but maybe that's
> being a bit too hopeful.
>
> The BBC provides its live streams as .asx amd .sdp files/URLs, there are
> alternative sources streaming some of them as .pls streams.
>
> I have tried 321mpg - fails completely, 123mpg sort of works but not
> very well, mplayer is far too heavyweight and vlc doesn't seem to
> support any of the BBC streaming formats.
>
> --
> Chris Green

I thought you could use mplayer for that, but I'm not sure.


Kind regards

Johnny Rosenberg
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