TheCodeArtist / conrad

Console/Terminal app to play internet radio streams.

conrad

Console app to play internet radio streams.

Contents

1. Introduction
2. Building conrad
3. Running conrad
4. Release Notes

1. Introduction

Conrad is a console app to play shoutcast internet radio streams.

Goals

• Minimalistic console-UI.
• Glitch-free playback.
• Low memory footprint.
• OS/Distro agnostic.

2. Building conrad

Dependencies

• libfmodex (bundled)

  FmodEx libraries are part of FMOD Sound System.
  Copyright Firelight Technologies.
  www.fmod.org

• libcurl

  Fetching and installing libcurl:
  On Ubuntu 11.10, the following command does the job
  sudo apt-get install libcurl4-gnutls-dev

To build conrad, execute make in the root of the repository. Ensure that the aforementioned dependencies are satisfied. Checkout Makefile for more details.

3. Running conrad

./conrad -s <station-url>

conrad saves the encoded audio stream of the current session in a local file "wave.dat" in the current directory.

4. Release Notes

• v0.1 (Initial Commit)

  Currently does NOT support AAC streams.