Summary
radio-active gets our strong recommendation. If you like terminal apps and listening to radio stations, you’ll love radio-active. It’s heads and shoulders above PyRadio and curseradio.
Many internet radio players struggle with the BBC HD radio streams. How a tool copes with these streams is a good bellwether for the program’s capabilities. We’re really happy that radio-active handles them with aplomb. And radio-active works well with all the streams we’ve explored.
Memory usage is fairly frugal. There’s a good range of features although there’s lots of things we’d like added such as bitrate information on streams, and help in finding trending and popular stations.
radio-active doesn’t have that many GitHub stars which is frankly a disgrace. Never be put off trying a project just because it doesn’t have thousands or tens of thousands of stars.
Website: github.com/deep5050/radio-active
Support:
Developer: Dipankar Pal
License: MIT License
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Pages in this article:
Page 1 – Introduction / Installation
Page 2 – In Operation
Page 3 – Memory Usage
Page 4 – Summary
I have had little luck with radio apps, they seem to be static and crackle for me. I just use by web browser with streema or radiovolna.
There’s no luck involved with radio-active. Installation is very simple, and playback is without static or crackle.
I’ve never had any radio app have ‘static’ or ‘crackle’.