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In November 2021 the much-missed SwampRabbit compiled and uploaded the current stable 1.5.0 version of this minimalist internet radio app to the MX Test Repo (for MX-21 and MX-19) so installable with MX Package Installer, and there it still sits. It is a great app for people who like to listen to music and to explore around world stations without a lot of fuss.

It has a very basic gui that ain't beautiful but works very well--well adapted to ugly ducklings! In dark mode:


It is very fast and easy to use, and I hope so see some testers take it for a ride so we can get it moved to Main. One quirk: you have to click the pause icon before you kill it, otherwise it just keeps playing along with no icon in the systray to use.

Website: https://github.com/louis77/tuner

Looks cool. I haven't used it but I will give it a try. Thank you Jerry for announcing it.
I like to add that I just installed it and I like it very much.

Yep I installed it soon after it was put up Jerry. I agree, it's a fine little application and fascinating really to see different music styles from around the world.
BTW, you mentioned the much missed SR. Has he taken leave or something? I do trust he is fit and well.

Tried it out straight away.
Apart from the aforementioned annoyance that it cannot be easily closed (or at least visibly parked in the systray), a fine little programme.

Yes, installed it on my old desktop running MX 19. No problems - except my deafness, but that is easily overcome with the audio gain control and a pair of headphones..

Thanks Jerry.

Hi @Gordon Cooper -- how good to hear from you! Glad you like it too.

@Jerry3904
Thanks for rejuvenating this. I missed it the first time around. Thanks also to SwampRabbit. The variety of music and stations abound. It works fine on MX 21 KDE and is more than worthy to move to Main.

The Dev is working mostly by himself. I wonder if anybody here would be interested in helping with that systray option (he's coding in Vala). He also is looking for help with translations.

Just installed Tuner (from MX test repo), and modified the menu entry to include "open in Terminal". (in case I forget to hit pause before closing.)

Nice app. Does what it says on the tin. All classical stations accessible so far.

Note the command to open from terminal is:

$ com.github.louis77.tuner

Alex.

The github page is here: https://github.com/louis77/tuner (in case anyone wants to help and add pull requests.)

Hello, this is also interesting:https://github.com/fredx181/yradio

Thanks, Jerry! This is a wonderful radio player...always found others to be awkward (those that were generalized audio players) to use for internet radio...this one is great!

Super, exactly what I was searching for :)

Tuner looks quite decent with the system settings in AVL-EFL.

https://alextonemusic.imgbb.com/

I always like pyradio. Nothing fancy, but easy to work with and edit it.

This is awesome! Thank you so much. Definitely going into my favorites.

Nice app for sure, drawing the stations url details from the radio-browser.info catalog.
It is a bit of a memory hog though (see below screenshot, showing ram-consumption while in idle state).
Since I mostly listen to some 20-25 or so, national NL+BE radiostations, I created a 'radiostations.xspf' playlist in audacious. Minimizes to systray, no need to pause first before app-closing :), showing notifications etc. Works a charm.

I just installed the latest dev version of tuner using pacstall. Seems to work just fine on my Debian-Sid machine.

Jerry3904 wrote: Wed Jul 27, 2022 9:00 pm One quirk: you have to click the pause icon before you kill it, otherwise it just keeps playing along with no icon in the systray to use.

This is due to the Background Playback feature introduced in version 1.5.0 where it will continue to play if closed.

https://github.com/louis77/tuner/releases

Version 1.5.1 changes the pause button to a stop button.

I saw that on the GitHub site, thanks.

Curious, does it offer more stations than the following sites?

Radio Garden: http://radio.garden/listen/radiominsk/YsoTDFJx

FM Radio Free: https://www.fmradiofree.com

Quantity was not the question...

Jerry3904 wrote: Thu Jul 28, 2022 6:22 pm Quantity was not the question...

It is for me. Why should I install multiple applications to get the amount of variety I'm looking for? If I can find one tool that does that, awesome!

I just use QMPlay2. It has a youtube/media viewer, great built-in youtube downloader (which is regularly updated) and has a good search function for internet radios. So it serves quite a few functions useful to me.

I saw this post yesterday and installed it. It's fantastic!!!

Sparky wrote: Fri Jul 29, 2022 2:17 pm I saw this post yesterday and installed it. It's fantastic!!!

Agree, it's a fine little program. Reading this post I installed it as well. The repo offers version 1.4.2 which doesn't seem to have the problem described above with having to hit PAUSE before closing so as to stop it playing. I read somewhere this only started with version 1.5 so that may be why. Anyway, the icon sits in my docklike taskbar (which btw I've come to REALLY appreciate), and closing the app stops it playing just as it should :-)

Yes, it was an adventure trying to close it.:)

Installed through MXPI, no issues. Ran and shut down with no issues. Nice program. Thank you.

Man, I have not listened to Radio Caroline in decades! Rollin' back the years.