Listen to radio stations in Ubuntu with RadioTray

By , Published June 16, 2010

Tuning into your favourite online radio stations without needing to open a dedicated music application is a breeze using RadioTray.

The application runs directly from your system panel with a menu-only interface – thus making it very straightforward to use.

Just don’t expect a fully featured bells-and-whistle jukebox for all RadioTray wants to do is give you access to your favourite radio stations with as few clicks as possible – a goal to which it admirably lives up to.

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  • el Guesto

    So cool!

  • Anonymous

    Awesome! I love such little tray applications! :) Thanks!

    … Oh… . And I’m lovin’ this blog!

  • http://uberdood.com Alf

    Groove Salad! :)

    • Bill

      hah. yes!!!

  • http://twitter.com/Bristow_69 Cédric F.

    Do you have some flux of French Radios ? I’d like to complete my list ;)

  • http://twitter.com/Bristow_69 Cédric F.

    Do you have some flux of French Radios ? I’d like to complete my list ;)

  • Anonymous

    So… To what does this connect to? Any lists of channels out there?

    EDIT: Ah, it’s configurable.

  • Anonymous

    Very nice, and very simple.. love itJust needs flash support
    *EDIT oops, forget flash, I just needed the links to non-flash radio*

    • http://olympusdigitalpen.blogspot.com/ dr. watson

      flash support ? OMG, Steve is not going to be happy :)

      • Anonymous

        I think a swfdec library might work… the gstreamer-swfdec plugin is no longer available in the repos. its an old thing.. there is a swf package that might be related to it tho.. The player does say your gstreamer installation is missing a plugin, so maybe thats it i`ll try it.

        • Anonymous

          Nope, I tried them all. Nevermind.

  • jedeye

    What plugin have i to install to play radio?

    • Anonymous

      gstreamers.. easiest method is ubuntu-restricted-extras

  • Anonymous
    • Anonymous

      These are why I wanted flash :) thanks

  • mel

    Awesome find

  • http://twitter.com/iheartubuntu i [heart] ubuntu

    Clearly the best tray app I use. Here are some of my fave stations..

    KUSC fm – Classical Music – Los Angeles
    http://68.181.156.19:8000/kuscaudio128.mp3

    Katherine Albrecht (1-3pm pacific time / daily show about privacy issues)
    http://media.katherinealbrecht.com/gcn.m3u

    KLOS fm – Classic Rock – Los Angeles
    http://citadelcc.ic.llnwd.net/stream/citadelcc_KLOS-FM.m3u

    KEKC fm – russian hits
    mms://stream03.rambler.ru/keksfm?WMContentBitrate=150000

  • detechy

    best tray app ever, period

  • http://twitter.com/iheartubuntu i [heart] ubuntu

    This new version is not installing on 64 bit Ubuntu.

    • Anonymous

      working for me ok on 10.04 amd64

    • Anonymous

      Same here, I double-click .deb file and it only flashes in taskbar.

    • Anonymous

      Installed from tarball but then:

      $ radiotray
      Traceback (most recent call last):
      File “/usr/bin/radiotray”, line 12, in
      os.chdir(workdir)
      OSError: [Errno 2] No such file or directory: ‘/usr/bin/src’

  • Berserk Ren

    yay, I was searchig for such a thin a long time =))))

  • http://profiles.yahoo.com/u/C6S22ANL35LHAH27EX43XFQKTQ Klau3

    My favorite radio

    Love Radio Moskau – Dance:
    http://stream.loveradio.ru:8000/Dance_96_stereo.mp3

  • Inameiname

    This is a great app. I’ve used it for a while.

    If anybody’s interested, I have a huge ‘bookmarks.xml’, with every station you’d ever need. You just overwrite the current one in ~/.local/share/radiotray:

    http://www.2shared.com/document/3uTa5LsE/bookmarks.html

  • Jef

    Woah, this is awesome. Thanks for the tip!

  • zob

    Cool tray app. I’d wish it worked with danish radio stations that are actually available in three different streaming formats. .asx, .pls and then some kind of dedicated linux-format. None of them work.
    http://www.dr.dk/netradio/wmp.asp
    http://www.dr.dk/netradio/afspillere.asp

    • Anonymous

      It works with wmp asx files fine.. I use KNAC which is a wmp asx stream.

      • zob

        Maybe I’m just unlucky. And I’m running 64bit. I don’t know. The same asx links play fine in rhythmbox. I’ve got all the codecs. Oh well, It’s not a 64bit thing. Just tested on a 32bit install. Must be something with the stream and radiotray then. I don’t know. I’m looking forward to using it when it get’s there.

    • bpollen

      If you can download the .pls file, you can edit with an editor (gedit, for instance) and copy the actual URL to add it to your stations…. Did that with “The Current” here on Minnesota Public Radio (http://currentstream1.publicradio.org:80/)

  • Anonymous
  • Anonymous

    Nice little app but it’s not little when looking at the memory it takes. 23MiB for such a thing and even the Last.fm client takes less at 17.7 MiB.

  • jkamp

    I just added it to stream my local radio here in Phoenix – 98kupd.com – I used the link they gave for streaming to BlackBerry which is http://c1.mp3.liquidcompass.net/KUPDFMMP3 and it works perfectly. Even gives the pop up notifications every time the song changes. That’s excellent. Great find guys!

  • Anonymous

    This is excellent, really simple and very easy to use.

  • http://blastfromthepast.se/ Tommy Brunn

    It seems cool. Too bad the only radio station I’m interested in listening to only publishes their feed in .rtmp format.

    EDIT: Oh, nevermind! I found an alternate stream. For anyone trying to listen to Swedish P3, use this adress: mms://wm-live.sr.se/SR-P3-High

  • http://twitter.com/elidoperezmd Elido A. Perez

    When i try to play a radio station added by me, i’m getting:
    Your GStreamer installation is missing a plug-in

    how can i overcome this and fix it?

  • Bill

    fyi guys… you can point the URL to a shoucast url *.pls from shoutcast — so it’ll pull all of their shoutcasts for each station
    (ie: http://yp.shoutcast.com/sbin/tunein-station.pls?id=3026)

  • http://profiles.yahoo.com/u/IW7KPKIQPC72UNEQAQYXWLV2AU realcnbs

    YES!! This is exactly what i need.

  • http://blastfromthepast.se/ Tommy Brunn

    Now, can someone make a monocolored icon. It’s sticking out like a sore thumb at the moment. ;)

  • Anonymous

    The project is dropped? Their site on sourceforge is not working.

  • http://twitter.com/agrundner Alexander Grundner

    Another fantastic tip. Thanks @omgubuntu! Love that I can just click RadioTray from the system panel to tune into Internet radio — saves me from launching Rhythmbox every time (overkill for just this task). I encountered one dependency that needed to be installed beforehand in 10.04: python-lxml.

    • http://omgubuntu.co.uk/ d0od

      Oh I didn’t know about the dependency (must’ve already had it installed) so thanks.

      Glad you found it useful! :)

  • Kenji

    It doesn’t play Rocky FM :(
    and it is the only radio that I listen to online…

  • nikkpap

    ~/.local/share/radiotray/bookmarks.xml if you want to backup or share your Radio List… Greetings From Greece…

 
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