Support for other media players (e.g. VLC)

[robinhood2014]

I'd like this program to one day add support for other media players such as VLC, in that it passes a radio stream to that app. For example, it might call "vlc XXX", where XXX is the URL of the requested stream.

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[ZaxonXP]

Or choosing mpv as player would be already good alternative as mpv used IPC, so it can be controlled remotely.

[robinhood2014]

I suppose I could just take the path to the stream -- i.e. https://example.com/path/to/stream -- and append it to an mpv command, such that mpv https://example.com/path/to/stream, and that's that. Of course, not all of us are as savvy with the command line as I am, so maybe we ought to consider adding support for mpv and other command-line audio players natively, such that this program is a frontend.

[ZaxonXP]

@robinhood2014: radioactive allows adding a station to favorite list, so you will have the stream URL. With that I am using my mpv.sh script to play it and control it with another script.

#!/bin/sh
$(which mpv) --input-ipc-server=/tmp/soc_mpv "$@"

Then I use my media buttons mapped to other script which allows play/pause operations:

#!/bin/sh
# play
echo '{ "command": ["set", "pause", "no"] }' | socat - /tmp/soc_mpv

#!/bin/sh
# pause
echo '{ "command": ["set", "pause", "yes"] }' | socat - /tmp/soc_mpv

The best would be to have some way to configure radioactive to allow external player command and also play and pause commands.

[deep5050]

I'll work on this next week.

[ZaxonXP]

What about command line parameters for the autio players? Is there a way to pass them to the radioactive?