Just installed RadioTray from repo Question

brent

been a long time since I've had gradio or any radio installed so I found RTray in repo.
Picture in software Center:

My install:

the idea of a comedy channel and rock stations in the SC-Pic was the draw here for me. Preferences offer a 'bookmark refresh' [if that's whats in the picture] and that did nothing.

Questions: where is my comedy channel and rock stations?

Does it all depend on region? Or other variables? Any variables I can can control or change?
thank you

johano

brent, thanks for sharing. This is a nice addition to the tray. Unobtrusive, light, always to hand, and easy to configure with preferred stations. 👍

Harvey

Looks like you can add your own stations and categories. It does not currently come with a comedy channel by default and there are two categories of rock in your list.

brent

Harvey
the beauty of radio if anyone remembers "back in the day" was you had to form a bond of trust with it. Someone else picks your playlist and you have to trust them so you can leave this thing on indefinitely and enjoy the background as you work sometimes for hours.

So far I've found a weird heavy/light eclectic station I can vibe with while composing letters, taking care of business and I've spend the better part of an hour with it.

My rock stations are different (than pic) but if I right-click the subs I'm kinda thinking they may change on occasion.
Comedy not a dealbreaker. I can get that with gradio but gradio too big for me.

I'm really liking having a small cli app that lives in the tray only, no GUI, and a simple right click menu.
thanks harvey for you reply,

signed brent, in the zone🙂

elfprince

brent Thanks! I am on it. Classical.

Harvey

Worth noting that gradio was discontinued by the developer. They now work on Shortwave which will replace gradio in a future sync.

brent

Harvey I gave Shortwave a whirl via flatpak. unreal. there's probably 2,000 global stations there (I listened to polish and hungarian rock stations for a while)....to hard to focus it. too much overlap. messy. seems it would take hours to find the gems....I'm sure most would have an opposite view and appreciate the quantity.
---every search you do it limited to 250 results, there may be thousands. it's vast.

Different strokes. the minimalism of RadioTrayNG with it's small offering may grate, or it may be in the tray for years. Love live FOSS.

brent

johano second night of PC work with it. rock ok. chill selection growing on me. pop ok. country interesting as its not mainstream. rock a mixed bag for a rock lover. the only talk radio is "jupiter community" and its a foss-driven show and interesting. an entire show with two people geeking out on foss containers. LOVED IT.

classical is next.

I've worked from desktop the last two hours with maybe switching channels once so I'd call that a victory. Thanks to the DEV or Forum member maintaining it.

If your goal is background to keep you in the groove, unobtrusive, undistracting, with no fuss then this thing's the sh**.

More love to Solus for sneaking this cool stuff in when I'm not paying attention🙂. App's a keeper.

johano

brent, I'm enjoying it too! 🙂
I've pruned many of the stations that come with it "out of the box", and added a half dozen or so my old favourite stations. 🎶

brent

FWIW:
Josh accepted this package for repo inclusion in 2017!
https://github.com/getsolus/packages/commit/a49d9f25daa15e0af209bfa76a42f92b083de657

surprised I missed it in repo all these yrs....but glad I found it.

johano

brent, wow, that's been there a while!
Used to use gradio, but much prefer this wee applet. I'm sure there's plenty in the repo I've missed!

Apart from eopkg search [whatever], at some point I started to watch the repo to catch anything new of interest, with this useful command

👀

eopkg --list-newest

eopkg help list-newest for more info.

Example:

Show items added to the repo since a particular date:

eopkg list-newest --since 2024-02-15

Harvey

We tried to use list-newest for something recently internally. Can't really trust it to give a complete list. Which is why someone wrote some scripting to help find new stuff for sync notes.