bartsimpson6994
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Music

Thu Feb 07, 2013 9:42 pm

Hi

Does anyone know how to play internet radio on the Raspberry PI is there a player I can install ?

DBryant
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Location: Berkshire, UK

Re: Music

Fri Feb 08, 2013 8:54 am

There are many players that will accept the URL of a radio stream. I've used VLC, which is capable of most things, on most formats, but might be considered over the top.

Try Googling for "raspberry audio players" as a straw poll of what if out there and what is useful?

Cloudcentric
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Re: Music

Fri Feb 08, 2013 9:06 am

bartsimpson6994 wrote:Hi

Does anyone know how to play internet radio on the Raspberry PI is there a player I can install ?
Mplayer is not as resource hungry as VLC, http://www.mplayerhq.hu/design7/documentation.html these blogs will give some pointers

http://www.akeric.com/blog/?p=1886

http://www.slideshare.net/gibraltarsoft ... rnet-radio
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bartsimpson6994
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Re: Music

Fri Feb 08, 2013 8:23 pm

Many thanks to all for your help

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