

I wanted to listen to the local college radio station here in Raleigh ( 88.1 WKNC, they're pretty good!), and so after grabbing the streaming URL from their website, all that took to get my radio up and running, no GUI or web player needed, was: $ mplayer -nocache -afm ffmpeg http: //: 8000 /wknchd1.mp3 MPlayer has a slew of command-line options to set depending on your situation.
#MPLAYER COMMAND LINE OPTIONS INSTALL#
On Fedora, I found it in RPM Fusion (be aware that this is not an "official" repository for Fedora, so exercise caution): $ sudo dnf install mplayer If MPlayer is not already installed, you can probably find it packaged for your distribution. Today's toy, MPlayer, is a versatile multimedia player that will support just about any media format you throw at it. While I've got plenty of playlists that work for just such a purpose, after a while, even though go stale, and I'll switch over to an internet radio station. Lots of times when I'm at the terminal, though, I'd really rather just zone out and not pay close attention to picking each song, and let someone else do the work.

There are many ways to listen to music at the command line if you've got media stored locally, cmus is a great option, but there are plenty of others as well.

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