This new release of radio.py brings more predefined stations and the much wanted recording feature. radio.py is a python wrapper for mplayer, designed to provide an easy-to-use interface for listening to radio from the command line. And indeed using radio.py is very easy, just pass the station name.
radio.py Classic FM
To read more about radio.py and the existing features go to radio.py – a Wrapper Script for Listening to Radio in Linux.
New stations in this release include Ram FM, Classic FM, Radio Caroline and update to all the radioIO stations. So overall this version of radio.py comes with 81 predefined stations. To see the full list of recognized station run radio.py --list. If your favorite station is still missing you can add via configuration files, ans described in here. If you will send a comment with the name of the stations and its website, I’ll add it to the next release.
The other important new feature is the ability to record radio streams to mp3 directly from radio.py. This is done using the --radio command-line switch. For example the following
radio.py CNN --record cnn.mp3
will record the radio stream of CNN to a file called cnn.mp3. To stop recording just press ‘q’. This option also be used with the --sleep and --wake-up to time your recordings. For example if you want to record a show that start in 30 minutes and is 60 minutes long you should do
radio.py BBC1 --record bbc1.mp3 --wake-up 30 --sleep 60
You can download the new version from here. Installation is pretty straight forward, just untar the archive and put the radio.py some where in your path (e.g. /usr/local/bin/) and the package is installed.
As always if you want new stations added to the next release, send a comment with the station details (at least name and website).
UPDATE 14/12/2008: I’ve changed the download link to point to radio.py‘s SourceForge project page.