How to listen to internet audio streams

Question

I connected my RPi onto my stereo so I can listen to my music.

However, I want to listen to a few internet-radio-streams. The streams are available in ASX, MP3 and some of them through SHOUTCAST.

I've already installed MPD and ICECAST and they are working correctly. How can I listen to these audio streams ?

Answer 1

You need a client that can connect to MPD and tell it what to play.

The simplest is the command line client mpc that can run on the Raspberry Pi. After installing it, you would do something like:

$ mpc add http://62.204.145.218:8000/radio1rock64
$ mpc play

The URL to add will of course be different - it will be the address you set up in Icecast for your stream.

There are many other MPD clients available, for example MPDroid that runs on Android phones, and can connect over a local Wifi network.

Answer 2

There are different ways to listen internet radio streams.

• MPD : Music Player Daemon,
  mpc add http://rdshout.turkuvazgroup.net:7000
  mpc play

• Mplayer
  mplayer http://rdshout.turkuvazgroup.net:7000

• PyRadio (https://github.com/coderholic/pyradio)
  After build the python program;

mkdir ~/.pyradio
echo "Romantik Radyo, http://rdshout.turkuvazgroup.net:7000/listen.pls" >> stations.csv
pyradio

Answer 3

MPD can play streams. I've found that you can add them to your library by creating playlists. Create a text file with an .m3u extension in your MPD music library with a different stream on each line. Or create a separate playlist file for each station. For example /usr/lib/mpd/library/rock-1-radio.m3u could have the content:

http://62.204.145.218:8000/radio1rock64

Once you rebuild your mpd database (mpc update) then that radio station will appear in your library list for all clients.