Listening radio with Mplayer in terminal

Question

I found out that listening to radio in terminal using "mplayer url" is much better than any software around, but after a while, terminal prints out a message saying low on cache.

How can I increase the cache in the terminal? Is it possible to free the used cache periodically while listening to the radio?

score 7 · Accepted Answer · edited May 21 '14 at 22:08

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You can set mplayer's cache with -cache argument on command line as well as specifying the initial cache fill before playback with '-cache-min'.

Try:

$ mplayer -cache 8192 -cache-min 80 <url>

p.s. 8192 should be enough, however, you can increase that number according to your needs. Note that the initial cache fill without the '-cache-min' option is only 20%.

edited May 21 '14 at 22:08

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answered Sep 16 '12 at 16:35

Gokhan Sari

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My edit adds in the -cache-min option and brief explanatory note... – andrew.46 May 21 '14 at 22:11

score 0 · Answer 2 · answered Jan 23 '14 at 22:53

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To listen Internet-Radio from a terminal I would recommend pyradio

As far as I know it uses mplayer and vlc in the background but has a really nice command-line interface.

answered Jan 23 '14 at 22:53

makim

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Listening radio with Mplayer in terminal

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