Wednesday, August 15, 2007
Python XM Radio Online command line player
I have always been a bit annoyed with how tedious it is to listen to XM Radio by streaming it from XM Radio Online, so I have finally written up a basic Python program to do it.
This code is based on the bash script I found that is mentioned in this blog page:
http://www.dragonboricua.net/2006/08/17/xm-radio-on-linux/
I don't really like using bash anymore for anything but a few lines of scripting, so I rewrote most of that in Python. My intention is to write a wxPython interface to display the song info and allow changing channels. But that is for later...
In its current incarnation this program only plays on Windows, and only uses Winamp. And it may have other limitations and errors. If you end up using it and/or changing it, let me know.
To run this you will need the following files:
This code is based on the bash script I found that is mentioned in this blog page:
http://www.dragonboricua.net/2006/08/17/xm-radio-on-linux/
I don't really like using bash anymore for anything but a few lines of scripting, so I rewrote most of that in Python. My intention is to write a wxPython interface to display the song info and allow changing channels. But that is for later...
In its current incarnation this program only plays on Windows, and only uses Winamp. And it may have other limitations and errors. If you end up using it and/or changing it, let me know.
To run this you will need the following files:
