rubio-radio

Mac	Linux	Windows

Alpha

Installation

Requirements:

VLC

rubio uses the vlc -I rc as the audio playback backend.

On Mac, it is recommended that you install VLC via Homebrew to ensure the vlc command is added to the PATH environment variable automatically:

brew install vlc

On Windows, install VLC using the Windows installer, and then add the installed VLC app directory to the PATH environment variable (e.g. C:\Program Files (x86)\VideoLAN\VLC) to make the vlc command available.

Ruby Gem:

gem install rubio-radio

Usage

Run with this command:

rubio

All Radio Browser stations are displayed by default. But, you can customize the count with --count COUNT (note that currently, there are only about 33,000 Radio Browser stations total). Setting the count to -1 will fetch all stations.

rubio --count 20000

The stations are fetched gradually (asynchronously) from the Radio Browser web API to have the app start instantly (avoid having the user wait for the app to start) no matter what the total count of stations is. But, you can avoid gradual prefetching if you prefer.

rubio --no-gradual

Default player is vlc -I rc, which enables showing currently playing song info (except on Windows). But, you can use any command line player that can take URL of radio station as its first argument.

rubio --backend mpg123

Learn more about rubio options:

rubio --help

Usage: rubio [options]
        --vlc [STR]         use VLC interface STR on the backend [rc]
        --mpg123            use mpg123 on the backend
    -b, --backend STR       command to use as backend player ['vlc -I rc']
    -c, --count INT         number of stations to fetch from radio-browser or -1 to fetch them all [-1]
        --per-page INT      number of stations per page [20]
    -w, --width INT         main window width
    -h, --height INT        main window height
        --[no-]page-count   show/hide page count [false]
        --[no-]menu         show/hide menu [true]
        --[no-]bookmarks    show/hide bookmarks [true]
        --[no-]gradual      gradually/non-gradually fetch stations [true]
        --[no-]margins      show/hide margins [true]
        --[no-]info         show/hide currently playing (song) info when using 'vlc -I rc' backend only [true]
        --debug             output status of monitored threads
        --help              show this help message
        --version           show the rubio version number

Examples:

rubio --vlc dummy        # vlc -I dummy (interactive command line interface)
rubio --mpg123           # rubio --backend mpg123
rubio --count 1000       # Displays the top 1,000 Radio Browser stations

Minimalistic Example:

rubio --per-page 6 --no-margins --no-info --no-menu --no-bookmarks

Page Count Example:

rubio --page-count

Filtering

The filter field does AND-based filtering when you enter multiple words separated by spaces:

jazz smooth

Also, the filter field supports exact term filtering if you enter multiple words surrounded by double-quotes.

"bossa nova"

Last but not least, the filter field supports column-specific queries by including a full column name or the first few letters, followed by colon (:), followed by a single word or double-quoted multiple words for exact term matching against the column:

name:talk language:eng

or just:

n:talk l:eng

This advanced example matches the word FM against the name column, and language bahasa indonesia against the language column.

n:FM l:"bahasa indonesia"

Finally, you can mix different types of filters:

brasil "bossa jazz" l:brazilian l:portuguese

Menus

You can use the top menu bar to stop the currently playing radio station, bookmark, unbookmark, view only bookmarked stations, view only currently playing station, and read the about dialog.