Ubuntu Tips: Radio Tray

I love to listen to No Agenda Stream with Radio Tray because of the serendipity.

15th February 2011

Radio Tray LogoI have installed Radio Tray as a simple solution to playing the No Agenda Stream with the smallest foot print possible on my Ubuntu desktop. If you are not familiar with the No Agenda Stream it is where Adam Curry and John C Dvorak broadcast No Agenda live on Thursday and Sunday at 09:00 PST, 17:00 GMT. When Adam are John are not recording No Agenda live the No Agenda Stream is an Open Source Radio station powered by listeners across the World suggesting songs via the No Agenda Stream DropBox account.

Radio Tray is an online radio streaming player that runs on a Linux system tray. Its goal is to have the minimum interface possible, making it very straightforward to use. Radio Tray is not a full featured music player, there are plenty of excellent music players already. However, there was a need for a simple application with minimal interface just to listen to online radios.

Installing Radio Tray

The installation of the Radio Tray is a simple exercise. This task can be completed with one command. You do require the administrator password to complete this modification. Once you have opened a new Terminal window paste the following command and press enter. You will then be asked to supply the administrator password. Then follow on screen commands.

sudo apt-get install radiotray

Once the command has finished executing you computer is now ready to use Radio Tray. To launch Radio Tray click the icon added into the Applications menu below Sound & Video.

Features of Radio Tray

  • plays most media formats (based on gstreamer libraries)
  • bookmarks support, with sorting
  • easy to use
  • supports PLS playlist format (Shoutcast/Icecast)
  • supports M3U playlist format
  • supports ASX, WAX and WVX playlist format

Radio Tray is Free Software, licensed under the GPL.

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