Tunein Radio – how to make a terminal radio player

[Member Lead Farmer]

Although I think PMRP is ok, is lacking local stations and lack of stations in general, so I decided make an alternative to PMRP with Tunein. stations.

This guide is a little complex and will take about 10 min to build your own radio player

Step 0

Make folder in your PC and name it “tunein_redio” for this example, make sure you save all the files in this folder, the change the path in the scripts.

Step 1

In the link I post above you will see categories for this example I will show how to add rock stations.
In the web page scroll down until you see “See More” to load more stations, you can load as match as you like.
save the web page with ctrl+s and save it in the folder as rock.html

Step 2

Now we need to extract the URLs of the station to text file by using this command, change the path of the folder.

grep -Po "(?<=href=\")https:\/\/tunein.com\/radio\/[\w-]+s\d+" path/tunein_redio/rock.html | sort -u >> path/tunein_redio/rock.txt

Optional: At this point you can edit text file by removing or adding stations or changing the order if you like.

Step 3

In this step we will make a new text file consist of 3 columns numbers, station name and url from the file rock.txt.
The new file will be name 3.txt because it is the third entry in my radio player see image.

#!/bin/bash
#
# Tunein radio player 1.0 
# make a 3 column txt file number/satation name/url

folder="/path/tunein_redio"
number_stations=$(cat $folder/rock.txt | wc -l)
for ((i = 1 ; i <= $number_stations ; i++)); do
   station_url=$(cat $folder/rock.txt | head -$i | tail +$i)
   sname=$(echo "$station_url" | grep -Po '[\w-]+(?=-s\d+)')
   echo "$i $sname $station_url" >> $folder/3.txt
done
exit 0 

You can save this script, and change the values for each category.

Step 4

This is the script of the radio player save and run it from the terminal or make a menu entry.

#!/bin/bash
#
# Tunein radio player 1.0 
#
folder="path/tunein_redio"
while true; do
  clear
  echo -e "Tunein Radio\n\n1 Local\n2 Top 40 & Pop\n3 Rock\n4 Indie\n5 Dance Electronic\n6 Classical\n7 Jezz"
  echo -e "\nSelect category number, Enter to exit"
  read category
  [[ $category -eq 0 ]] && exit 0
  while true; do
    clear
    cat $folder/$category.txt | awk '{print $1" "$2}'
    echo -e "\nSelect station number, 0 random station, b back"  
    read station
    [[ "$station" == "b" ]] && break
    if [[ "$station" == "0" ]]; then
      number_stations=$(cat $folder/$category.txt | wc -l)
      station=$(echo $((1 + $RANDOM % $number_stations)))
    fi
    station_url=$(cat $folder/$category.txt | head -$station | tail +$station | awk '{print $3}')
    station_name=$(cat $folder/$category.txt | head -$station | tail +$station | awk '{print $2}' |tr '-' ' ')
    clear
    echo -e "Playing $station_name station, q to stop\n\n"
    mpv $station_url
  done
done

exit 0

In the 8 line you can see 3 rock corresponding to 3.txt, make sure to change the name of the files for each category.

Step 5

Repeat 1-4 step for other categories.

Edit: I post version 2.0 below.

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[Member marcelocripe]

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Thank you very much.

[Member Lead Farmer]

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You welcome, glad you like it.

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This looks great. I love seeing this type of thing in tips & tricks. I’ll dig into this soon, when I get time…
Thanks.

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[Member Lead Farmer]

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Version 2.0

New Features:

Save previous station in favorites, after you finished listing to a station you can save it favorites, it’s good if you have a lot a stations.

Changes

1) Bug fixing.
2) I changed so back or exit is the q key
3) I changed the code so it be easier to change the categories

 favorite_entry=8

category_entries() {
	# You can change this section!
	# Make sure the text files corresponding to the category
	# 3 rock = 3.txt
	echo -e "Tunein Radio\n	
1 Local
2 Top 40 & Pop
3 Rock
4 Indiet
5 Dance Electronic
6 Classical
7 Jezz
$favorite_entry Favorites"
    #Favorites must be the last one!
	# set favorite_entry abouve to the right value that fit the order
}

Instructions

1) extract the files to your tunein folder
2) the empty file 8.txt is the favorites rename as your last category, for example you have 12 categories rename the file 12.txt, also you need to set favorite_entry=12.

This is only the player (step 4) and it will work with text files 1.txt, 2.txt… to show and play the stations.

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Cool, I’ll check this out tonight!!!

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[Member Lead Farmer]

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Version 3.2 3.3

New Features:

1) Recorded stream: add r to record a station like -> r10 to record the 10 stations, recordings saved in the recording folder in the tunein_redio folder.
Recording is an experimental feature, and might not work or change the audio quality

2) Save station in Favorites:
– Add s in the beginning of the number station to save it in favorites like s10
– s alone will save the previous listened station.

3) Delete station:
– Add d in the beginning of the number station -> d10
– d alone will delete the previous listened station
– I recommend to backup you stations files 1.txt, 2.txt… just in case before using this feature

4) Add help

Instructions

1) extract the files to your tunein folder

2) the empty file 8.txt is the favorites rename as your last category, for example you have 12 categories rename the file 12.txt, also you need to set favorite_entry=12.

This is only the player (step 4) and it will work with text files 1.txt, 2.txt… to show and play the stations.

Helped needed

I noticed that about 10% of the stations are not playing and there is an error with mpv player,

I think it’s IP blocked

mpv https://tunein.com/radio/1003-RB-and-Hip-Hop-s59419
[ffmpeg] https: HTTP error 403 Forbidden
Failed to open https://playerservices.streamtheworld.com/api/livestream-redirect/WRNBFM.mp3?DIST=TuneIn&TGT=TuneIn&maxServers=2&partnertok=eyJhbGciOiJIUzI1NiIsImtpZCI6InR1bmVpbiIsInR5cCI6IkpXVCJ9.eyJ0cnVzdGVkX3BhcnRuZXIiOnRydWUsImlhdCI6MTY4MzY0NjMxNCwiaXNzIjoidGlzcnYifQ.3SAtAOkh67m7OwjK-Ajaz57NBzOPHR-JIVTCca8sJYw.

And this one.

mpv https://tunein.com/radio/100hitz---90s-Alternative-s111386
[ffmpeg] http: HTTP error 404 Not Found
.ailed to open http://pureplay.cdnstream1.com/6040_128.mp3

If you know how to get around the second error please tell.

Edit: version 3.3 is because I forgot to add the word “delete” in the script.

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[Member RJP]

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streamtheworld.com > Access to resource is forbidden.

http://pureplay.cdnstream1.com/6040_128.mp3 > works ok

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Lead Farmer wrote:

I noticed the about 10% of the stations are not playing and there is an error with mpv player,

This is due to silly geoblocking, and you can’t make it work for all people the same in your script: In some places some 10% or 30% fail, in other countries different 10% or 30% fail, and so on. Everybody will have to check the addresses provided on his own. We do live in a globalised world, but there are new virtual concrete walls for internet citizens, just like the Berlin Wall, only erected to protect some outdated business models.

Windows is like a submarine. Open a window and serious problems will start.

[Member Lead Farmer]

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RJP wrote:

streamtheworld.com > Access to resource is forbidden.

http://pureplay.cdnstream1.com/6040_128.mp3 > works ok

This script is build around Tunein radio stations, so making it to work with other streams is not passable.

Robin wrote:

Lead Farmer wrote:

I noticed the about 10% of the stations are not playing and there is an error with mpv player,

This is due to silly geoblocking, and you can’t make it work for all people the same in your script: In some places some 10% or 30% fail, in other countries different 10% or 30% fail, and so on. Everybody will have to check the addresses provided on his own. We do live in a globalised world, but there are new virtual concrete walls for internet citizens, just like the Berlin Wall, only erected to protect some outdated business models.

That a shame that there is such restrictions.
The user will have to manage their stations, either ignore or delete the the non playing stations.
I have +5k stations so it will take me some time to remove them all, but I think I will do it only when I encounter a non playing station.

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Version 3.4

-Bug fixing.

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[Member RJP]

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I cannot get Step 2 working, so could you provide ready file for Step 2?

Step 2

Now we need to extract the URLs of the station to text file by using this command, change the path of the folder

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[Member Lead Farmer]

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RJP wrote:

I cannot get Step 2 working, so could you provide ready file for Step 2?

You need to change the path of the folder in the script “path/tunein_redio/rock.html” and “path/tunein_redio/rock.txt”, do it in the other scripts too.

Edit: In step 3 you need to change also the file names

Here is an example of step 1-3

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[Member RJP]

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It works. 🙂 The biggest problem with Tunein Radio is getting Step 2 file, so you could incude the files inside Tunein Radio folder and/or make a full deb-package so then paths would be ready out of box. Anyway very good cli-application. 🙂

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RJP wrote:

It works.The biggest problem with Tunein Radio is getting Step 2 file

The process might be hard to understated but it’s easy when you know what to do.
I recommend downloading all html files of the categories you want, then run step 2 from the terminal, and them run step 3 from a script.

RJP wrote:

so you could incude the files inside Tunein Radio folder

I don’t what to give prepacked stations, my music taste may different then yours, also I like to listing to my local station but they different language then yours.
So I prefer people to personalized their player, but also as @Robin said some stations that work for me might for you.

RJP wrote:

make a full deb-package so then paths would be ready out of box. Anyway very good cli-application

I’m just novice, I don’t know how to that.

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