Internet Radio Player

I am building a Alarm Clock Radio. One of its features is to be able to play internet radio stations.

I wasn't quite sure what features would be required in a streaming player. So, I wrote a python script to play the streams. I used with this for a while until it seemed to do everything I wanted. Eventually, I will add the commands in the python script to the Alarm Clock GUI.

Parts:

• Raspberry Pi 3

• HiBerry AMP2

• 1 or 2 Speakers

Step 1. Set up Raspberry Pi 3

For easy access from my laptop, I enabled the following:

• OpenSSH

• avahi-daemon

• On-board Wi-Fi

Step 2. HiBerry AMP2

Step 3. Internet Radio Basics

Copy music files

Create directory /home/pi/radio

Create directory /home/pi/Stations/playlists

Step 4. Add several scripts to Raspberry Pi

cd to the /home/pi/radio directory and run the command:

$ sudo wget "https://raw.githubusercontent.com/dumbo25/Internet-Radio-Player/master/streamPlayer.py"

cd to /home/pi/Stations and run the commands:

$ sudo wget "https://raw.githubusercontent.com/dumbo25/Internet-Radio-Player/master/m3uCheck.py"

$ sudo wget "https://github.com/dumbo25/Internet-Radio-Player/blob/master/m3uGet.sh"

From /home/pi/Stations, run m3uGet.sh. You may need to make it executable. This will pull a bunch of streaming stations.

Next, run m3uCheck.py. Many of the stations from the above no longer work. Next, go through and listen to each station and decide if you want it to be in your list of stations. The scripts contain directions in the comments on how to mark a station.

Step 5. Here are my favorite stations

$ cd ~/.

$ cd Stations/playlists

$ wget https://raw.githubusercontent.com/dumbo25/Internet-Radio-Player/master/all_stations.m3u

Step 6. Check if it all works

To play internet stations, change to /home/pi/radio and run the stream player script using:

$ cd ~/.

$ cd radio

$ python3 streamPlayer.py

Common commands:

Copy file from Raspberry Pi 3 to laptop. Open a terminal window on MacBook laptop. Navigate to whatever directory you want to use as backup for the script and run the command:

$ scp pi@♣hostname♣.local:/home/pi/radio/streamPlayer.py .

References

• IceCast: http://dir.xiph.org/by_genre/Pop

• Internet Radio: https://www.internet-radio.com/