Saturday, June 20, 2009

The less consuming radio player ever

Hello,
multimedia always killed desktop performance, also audio with all such effect-based players out there. I've been using deezer for a long time, but sometimes I'm tired to see my desktop lagging.
I don't need that, I need random music from internet while I'm either programming or studying, and my computer has only 512mb ram and 2.4ghz amd64 (onLY??? yes nowadays it's a little amount).

Let's see what we can do using gst-launch:

while [ 1 ]; do wget -q -O - http://66.250.45.112:80/hard.ogg|gst-launch fdsrc fd=0 ! decodebin ! audioconvert ! alsasink; done

The URL above is a hard rock station :) The while ensures re-connection. I think performances are great, 6% cpu and 2% ram.

But there's yet a bettere solution (see comments):

mplayer http://66.250.45.112:80/hard.ogg

5 comments:

ZeD said...

sorry, but, a simple
mplayer http://66.250.45.112:80/hard.ogg
* it's simpler to remember
* has a little cache in case of connection problems
* use 1/3 of resources of your solution

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