Simple Internet Radio controlled by menu

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If you listen only to a few favorite internet-radio-stations and want a small, simple, but working solution without a gui, you may like this button.

It uses free and portable "mpg123", which you can download here:

http://www.mpg123.de/download.shtml
Note: You only need "mpg123.exe" from static archive.

Instruction

Left-click on button shows up a menu with all radio-stations, right-click on button closes/stops.

  1. Include your favorite url's or local playlists (.m3u). Some playlists from "Hotmix Radio" (my favorite :wink:) are included.

  2. Change path to mpg123-folder to yours (Default: "/dopusdata\User Data", working for portable DO)

<?xml version="1.0"?>
<button backcol="none" display="both" textcol="none" type="three_button">
	<label>Radio On</label>
	<icon1>#play</icon1>
	<button backcol="none" display="both" textcol="none">
		<label>Radio On</label>
		<icon1>#play</icon1>
		<function type="normal">
			<instruction>@runmode hide</instruction>
			<instruction>@set url = {dlgchoose|Please choose radio-station:|Hotmix Radio - 1980&apos;s=http://www.hotmixradio.fr/stream/80.m3u+Hotmix Radio - 1990&apos;s=http://www.hotmixradio.fr/stream/90.m3u+Hotmix Radio - 2000&apos;s=http://www.hotmixradio.fr/stream/2000.m3u+Hotmix Radio - Dance=http://www.hotmixradio.fr/stream/dance.m3u+Hotmix Radio - Frenchy=http://www.hotmixradio.fr/stream/frenchy.m3u+Hotmix Radio - Funky=http://www.hotmixradio.fr/stream/funky.m3u+Hotmix Radio - Golds=http://www.hotmixradio.fr/stream/golds.m3u+Hotmix Radio - Hip-Hop=http://www.hotmixradio.fr/stream/hiphop.m3u+Hotmix Radio - Hits=http://www.hotmixradio.fr/stream/hits.m3u+Hotmix Radio - Hot=http://www.hotmixradio.fr/stream/hot.m3u+Hotmix Radio - Lounge=http://www.hotmixradio.fr/stream/lounge.m3u+Hotmix Radio - New=http://www.hotmixradio.fr/stream/New.m3u+Hotmix Radio - Rock=http://www.hotmixradio.fr/stream/rock.m3u+Hotmix Radio - Sunny=http://www.hotmixradio.fr/stream/sunny.m3u+Hotmix Radio - VIP=http://www.hotmixradio.fr/stream/vip.m3u}</instruction>
			<instruction>Taskkill /IM mpg123.exe</instruction>
			<instruction>/dopusdata\user data\mpg123.exe -q -@ &quot;{$url}&quot;</instruction>
		</function>
	</button>
	<button backcol="none" display="both" textcol="none">
		<label>Radio Off</label>
		<icon1>#play</icon1>
		<function type="normal">
			<instruction>@runmode hide</instruction>
			<instruction>Taskkill /IM mpg123.exe</instruction>
		</function>
	</button>
</button>

Of course you can do more with mpg123...

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Hey Sasa,
This is very cool and an effortless idea.
and good choice of music.

cheers

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Minimalistic and efficient.. o) Thanks!

For anybody using a proxy-server, you need to add "-p proxy:port" to the command line to make mpg123 "go there", it does not look up windows system-settings.

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Hello, i like the idea a lot, but i've been struggling for several days to get it working in opus 11.7.
mpg123 is in scripts\mpg123 including the .dll files
I've created a button in the toolbar & after clicking it shows the menu with radiostations allright, after selecting one nothing happens.
When entering the command by hand in CLI: mpg123.exe -@ hotmixradio.fr/stream/80.m3u it plays immediately

What could be wrong?

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I changed the player in MPC-hc64.exe (just copied the MPC-HC folder to scripts)
Now it works as it should, only with a different player.

Thanks again for the idea.

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Sorry for resurrection but that is really great radio stuff. Any chance to show artist/song in titlebar or something like that?

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Independent from the possibilty to do that via a script (I'm not a programmer), AFAIK Hotmix does not send any informations about actual song played (except on their webpage).

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I tried mpg123 with my station of choice in command line and info is there about songs, was thinking maybe this info could be sent somehow to somewhere in Directory Opus.

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There was an update, you now only need the "mpg123.exe" from the static x86-/x64-archiv.

With the update "mpg123" now can output what you're listening to. Is there a way to show this in a DO-button/-toolbar? This would add the final touch :-).

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Original post was from 2014, updated code/post.