Shell Script to Play Radio Channels using mplayer | Linux

Below is a simple bash script which can be used to play radio channels using your mplayer. I used this in Fedora10.

Visit the websites of your favorites radio stations and get their online URI.
Just use your browser to see the corresponding source of the html page like “View->View Source”.
There should be a URI inside that is like mms://whatever. Just copy it and paste it to a file radiochannels.txt.

example channels:

mms://sportfm.live24.gr/sportfm7712
mms://212.72.165.19/radiodumdum

#!/bin/bash
LOGFILE=/home/scripts/radiodumdum.log;
CHANNELFILE=/home/scripts/radiochannels.txt
case "$1" in
restart|start)

if [ `ps auxwwww|grep mplayer|wc -l` -gt 0 ]
then
killall mplayer 2> /dev/null
for pid in `ps auxwww|grep mplayer|tr -s ' '|cut -d ' ' -f2`
do
kill -9 $d 2> /dev/null
done

fi

#mplayer mms://212.72.165.19/radiodumdum/ > /dev/null 2>&1 &
mplayer -ao alsa mms://212.72.165.19/radiodumdum/ >> $LOGFILE 2>&1 &

;;

stop)
if [ `ps auxwwww|grep mplayer|wc -l` -gt 0 ]
then
killall mplayer 2> /dev/null
for pid in `ps auxwww|grep mplayer|tr -s ' '|cut -d ' ' -f2`
do
kill -9 $d 2> /dev/null
done
fi
;;
list)
echo "Choose your interest"
select mychannel in `cat $CHANNELFILE|cut -d ',' -f1`
do
if [ $mychannel ]
then
mymmsurl=`cat $CHANNELFILE|grep -w $mychannel|cut -d ',' -f2`;
playlistoption=`cat $CHANNELFILE|grep -w $mychannel|cut -d ',' -f3`;
if [ $mymmsurl ]
then
radio stop
mplayer -ao alsa $playlistoption $mymmsurl >> $LOGFILE 2>&1 &
break;
fi
echo "No mms URL found; continuing.. Please check file: $CHANNELFILE";
break;
else
echo "Wrong choice. exiting.."
break;
fi

done
;;
-s)
mychannel=$2
$0 stop
mymmsurl=`cat $CHANNELFILE|grep -i $mychannel|cut -d ',' -f2|head -n1`;
playlistoption=`cat $CHANNELFILE|grep -i $mychannel|cut -d ',' -f3`;
mplayer -ao alsa $playlistoption $mymmsurl >> $LOGFILE 2>&1 &
;;

status)
if [ `ps auxwwww|grep mplayer|wc -l` -gt 0 ]
then
tail -f -n 1 $LOGFILE
else
echo "radio dumdum: stopped"
fi
;;
*)
echo "Usage: $0 list|start|stop|restart"
esac

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