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odio – free to download radio streaming software

Last Updated on November 5, 2020

In operation

Here’s an image of odio at startup.

odio

The interface is simply gorgeous. At the top left is “My Library”, a place to save your favorite stations. You populate your library by moving your mouse over a radio stream. A heart icon appears, and you can click that icon. That action adds the station to your library.

Here’s my library populated with 12 stations.

odio-library

You can edit your library although sadly there’s no option to rearrange them. But the jiggling stations are great!

You can also view a station profile by moving the mouse over a station. This isn’t for academic interest. Some stations have multiple entries. Looking at the station profile helps you choose the stream with the highest bitrate.

There’s also a Recently viewed section, but this only populates when you view a station profile. I’m not sure if this is a bug or by design.

Next page: Page 3 – Other Features

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Page 1 – Introduction / Installation
Page 2 – In Operation
Page 3 – Other Features
Page 4 – Summary

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Kevin Friend
Kevin Friend
5 years ago

I’ve just tried out odio this afternoon. It’s interface is beguiling. Shame there’s no source code, as I’ve got a few features I’d like to add, or at least contribute the framework.

Vic B
Vic B
5 years ago
Reply to  Kevin Friend

I agree, without the source code we cannot help the project, except in a very limited way. It seems the developer is uncertain as to what open source license to choose, he’s even asked on his GitHub page what license to choose.

Maybe LinuxLinks can take a look at an open source radio player like Shortwave (badly named but an interesting project). It was called Gradio, dunno why the name change?

Harold Plumber
Harold Plumber
5 years ago

“memory also ramps up here, approaching 1 GB of RAM”

Sounds like the application is “leaking memory” badly.

But with a closed source , binary image only program, who knows what else it is doing.

Alexander Botero
Alexander Botero
5 years ago

It does not start here. Nor does it print error messages either. Nothing.
$ sudo snap install odio
$ snap run odio

Nothing appears.
What does this software do?
NO SOURCE CODE AVAILABLE !

I run:
$ lsb_release -a
Description: Ubuntu 18.10 64bit

Craig
Craig
5 years ago

Why dont you try the AppImage?

Arthur Taylor
Arthur Taylor
5 years ago

I’d like to use this app on PCLinuxOS but this distro doesn’t use systemd do snaps are out. I can’t find the AppImage that is mentioned – any clues as to where to find it, if it does actually exist? (I’ve got the snap running fine on openSUSE)

Bruce W
Bruce W
5 years ago
Reply to  Arthur Taylor

Why on earth would Luke Baker make it up that an AppImage exists. Maybe you should open your eyes?

Arthur Taylor
Arthur Taylor
5 years ago

Thank-you very much, downloaded and installed successfully on PCLinuxOS.

chucki
chucki
1 year ago

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