YRadio Internet Radio Player

[fredx181]

*** YRadio Internet Radio Player v1.7 ***

Following up from "testing" thread (starting about YRadio Here) (previous version 1.6, see here: viewtopic.php?p=79345#p79345)
Small improvement in v1.7 is that when accidentally clicking "Load" twice or more (while busy searching) it only does load once. And the tray-icon has bigger size now, was too small, thanks @Sofiya .

Features:
● Direct online search from http://all.api.radio-browser.info/ by using "jq", see info here: viewtopic.php?p=76961#p76961 , no local database required (edit: contains more than 30000 stations !!!).
(search for name of radio-station, or select a country, e.g. Australia from dropdown list)
● Prefab Playlists (or call it 'Categories', drop-down box at the top), "Favorites" is the default.
● Create New (empty) Playlist
● Add/remove radio-station to/from a Playlist
● Save search results to a (new) Playlist.
● Rip a stream (required is "streamripper" installed)
● Help dialog (read it for some more info)

Requirements:
mpv or mplayer (note: old version of mplayer may not work well with some stream types, then mpv is recommended)
Can be chosen from right-click tray-icon menu > Select Player
Optional: streamripper

Packed as an Appimage, yad and jq are included, download to some location, make it executable and run it from there by just clicking on it, or run from terminal, e.g: ./YRadio-1.7_64
64-bit: YRadio-1.7_64 appimage:
https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/s/cz3 ... .7_64?dl=1
32-bit: YRadio-1.7_32 appimage:
https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/s/vq7 ... .7_32?dl=1

Screenshot: (shows v1.6, but doesn't matter as v1.7 looks the same)

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[fredx181]

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[keniv]

@fredx181
Downloaded and installed v1.7. Listening to it now.

Packed as an Appimage, yad and jq are included, download to some location, make it executable and run it from there by just clicking on it, or run from terminal, e.g:

Am using this as a "portable" as with v1.6. In v1.5 I had to make a directory called Yradio-1.5.home for it to function. I did similar with v1.6 but I'm beginning to wonder if it was necessary. Based on the above instructions can I assume it's not necessary in v1.7.

Regards,

Ken.

[fredx181]

@fredx181
Downloaded and installed v1.7. Listening to it now.

Packed as an Appimage, yad and jq are included, download to some location, make it executable and run it from there by just clicking on it, or run from terminal, e.g:

Am using this as a "portable" as with v1.6. In v1.5 I had to make a directory called Yradio-1.5.home for it to function. I did similar with v1.6 but I'm beginning to wonder if it was necessary. Based on the above instructions can I assume it's not necessary in v1.7.

Regards,

Ken.

Hi Ken. Well, you don't have to, it's just an option to create a .home directory next to the appimage (for v1.7 it would be e.g. "YRadio-1.7_64.home" (64-bit)), if that dir is there, it will contain the config files.
(in YRadio-1.7_64.home/.yradio (hidden folder) , so then it's true portability, I'd say, e.g when running from another distro, your settings, e.g. new created Playlists or changed Playlists or player choice, are preserved).

But if you don't create that directory, the configuration dir. will be: /root/.yradio (hidden folder), not true portability between distro's.
EDIT: Many other appimages have that sort of ".home" property too, btw.

[keniv]

@fredx181
Thanks for reply and the information therein. I have now made a .home directory as I do want it to function as v1.5. As you can probably tell I don't have much experience of app images. Yradio is one of my favourite apps. I tend to use the BBC stuff mostly but it's great to have such a wide choice. Thanks again for this.

Ken.

[m1k3]

This works great and is exactly what I was looking for! Thanks for making it.

I may be missing it but is there a way to make it minimize to the tray?

[rockedge]

@fredx181 Love the program use it everyday.

One problem I have though is if I squeeze the window (as I do often) and expand it again, the search bar and playlist selector are not present.

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here is how I have it on the screen while listening ->

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and then expanded again with no controls ->

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[fredx181]

@fredx181 Love the program use it everyday.

One problem I have though is if I squeeze the window (as I do often) and expand it again, the search bar and playlist selector are not present.
Screenshot_2024-04-23_10-37-56.jpg

here is how I have it on the screen while listening ->

Screenshot_2024-04-23_10-38-33.jpg

and then expanded again with no controls ->

Screenshot_2024-04-23_10-38-50.jpg

I don't think that can be fixed (at least I have no idea how, perhaps it's a yad thingy, but may be wrong), I assume this is for you with yad GTK3 (on KLV) you run yradio ?
(edit: the appimage that I shared here has GTK2 yad included, works different, you can't drag to to the same minimal size, but dragging back to original size with top display works ok)
The top display can be 'dragged' back (by putting the mouse pointer on the line above the list, but it requires absolute (absurd) precision, so very inconvenient.
Did a little investigating and found that it helps a bit when trying with another cursor theme (installed the "breeze" cursor theme on KLV (and after some practicing ) :

Virtuoso dragging !!

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[Sofiya]

In KLA-HyprlandCE
Thank you @ fredx181
The only pop-up notification here is a nuisance. It opens like a window.

[fredx181]

In KLA-HyprlandCE
Thank you @ fredx181
The only pop-up notification here is a nuisance. It opens like a window.

You mean the notification where it shows artist- title ? (can't see at your screenshot, edit: oh see now at the top left, what's wrong ?).

[Sofiya]

In KLA-HyprlandCE
Thank you @ fredx181
The only pop-up notification here is a nuisance. It opens like a window.

You mean the notification where it shows artist- title ? (can't see at your screenshot, edit: oh see now at the top left, what's wrong ?).

You mean the notification where it shows artist- title ?

Yes
there are 2 notifications when I select a station and after when the song changes
everything would be fine, but when you work in another area of the desktop let's put it in 2, and the radio is on 1, these notifications pop up in the area where I am.
in area 2

if you remove these notifications everything will be great for Hyprland

[Sofiya]

Yes, and “alsa-utils” is necessary??, I use pipewire
I click ok and everything plays for me without “alsa-utils”

[rockedge]

if you remove these notifications everything will be great for Hyprland

is it possible to add a configuration option for enable/disable notifications?

[fredx181]

@Sofiya I will look into the things you mentioned, test on hypr, in the next days.

[fredx181]

@Sofiya Didn't test on hyprland yet, but found that disabling the notifications is very easy, just comment out line 940 (this is on v1.6):

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Still when you left-click on the icon in systray, the notification will display.
Would that be OK for you that way ?
(will look into the volume issue later, probably easy too change too by using pactl (instead of amixer) for checking the volume level).

[Sofiya]

@Sofiya Didn't test on hyprland yet, but found that disabling the notifications is very easy, just comment out line 940 (this is on v1.6):
2024-04-24_14-00-21.png
Still when you left-click on the icon in systray, the notification will display.
Would that be OK for you that way ?
(will look into the volume issue later, probably easy too change too by using pactl (instead of amixer) for checking the volume level).

yes, that would be fine
the volume doesn't bother me
There is no tray icon on Hyprland I do not know why

[fredx181]

@Sofiya Didn't test on hyprland yet, but found that disabling the notifications is very easy, just comment out line 940 (this is on v1.6):
2024-04-24_14-00-21.png
Still when you left-click on the icon in systray, the notification will display.
Would that be OK for you that way ?
(will look into the volume issue later, probably easy too change too by using pactl (instead of amixer) for checking the volume level).

yes, that would be fine
the volume doesn't bother me
There is no tray icon on Hyprland I do not know why

Ah, ok, did some more investigating on the volume issue and turns out it's not as easy as I thought to fix it (without having amixer (alsa-utils) installed).
So, assuming that you make the change yourself in yradio to disable the notifications for hyprland, I think it's fine now.

[Sofiya]

@Sofiya Didn't test on hyprland yet, but found that disabling the notifications is very easy, just comment out line 940 (this is on v1.6):
2024-04-24_14-00-21.png
Still when you left-click on the icon in systray, the notification will display.
Would that be OK for you that way ?
(will look into the volume issue later, probably easy too change too by using pactl (instead of amixer) for checking the volume level).

yes, that would be fine
the volume doesn't bother me
There is no tray icon on Hyprland I do not know why

Ah, ok, did some more investigating on the volume issue and turns out it's not as easy as I thought to fix it (without having amixer (alsa-utils) installed).
So, assuming that you make the change yourself in yradio to disable the notifications for hyprland, I think it's fine now.

yes now notifications don’t interfere, everything works

Thank you ! @fredx181

[rockedge]

@fredx181 I found out I was using YRadio-1.5 so now I am using the v1.7 appimage on KLV-Airedale-RT with the full real time kernel 6.6.0-rt15.

version 1.7 will not allow shrinking the GUI window past the bottom border of the control fields and the controls section is size adjustable!

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[fredx181]

@fredx181 I found out I was using YRadio-1.5 so now I am using the v1.7 appimage on KLV-Airedale-RT with the full real time kernel 6.6.0-rt15.

version 1.7 will not allow shrinking the GUI window past the bottom border of the control fields and the controls section is size adjustable!
Screenshot_2024-04-24_14-33-17.png

General life lesson ? ; "You can't have it all"

Thanks everyone for the feedback !

[Sofiya]

YRadio-1.7-x86_64.AppImage - for HyprlandCE
No pop-up notifications

64-bit: YRadio-1.7-x86_64.AppImage:
https://gitlab.com/sofija.p2018/kla-ot2 ... 4.AppImage

[geo_c]

YRadio-1.7-x86_64.AppImage - for HyprlandCE
No pop-up notifications ]

Did you have to install alsa-utilils? That's one of the things I always install. Lot's of alsa stuff even when using pipewire.

[Sofiya]

YRadio-1.7-x86_64.AppImage - for HyprlandCE
No pop-up notifications ]

Did you have to install alsa-utilils? That's one of the things I always install. Lot's of alsa stuff even when using pipewire.

No

[bugnaw333]

It runs in QV.