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Bash BBC Radio

A bash script to play high quality BBC streams from the command line, via VLCs cvlc command. It also displays now/next information much quicker than navigating to the bbc website.

Thanks to simoncn and clanger9 at the Linn forums for the stream links and Steve Seear for pointing the way. Also to Tom Scott at the Beeb's radiolabs for the schedule data streams.

$ radio 6
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Playing BBC Radio 6 Music
16:00 - 18:00 - Jarvis Cocker's Sunday Service
                - John Cooper Clarke
John Cooper Clarke sits in on the Sunday Service with two hours of classic nuggets.

Next
* 18:00 - 20:00  Now Playing @6Music
* 20:00 - 22:00  Stuart Maconie's Freak Zone
* 22:00 - 00:00  Don Letts' Culture Clash Radio
* 00:00 - 02:00  Guy Garvey's Finest Hour

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Depends on

Bash wget vlc (has to be in single instance mode)

Install

put 'radio' and 'radio_streams' in the same folder, in your path. Make 'radio' executable.

Usage

list all available stations

$ radio list

list stations matching [pattern]

$ radio list [pattern]    eg $ radio list scot

or

$ radio [pattern] list    eg $ radio w list

play station matching pattern

$ radio [pattern]    eg $ radio 4

stop playing

$ radio stop

Will not work if VLC is not configured for single-instance mode

display now / next info

radio [pattern] now    eg $ radio 1x now

display the remainder of today's schedule

radio [pattern] later    eg $ radio R5X later