Listening to Internet Radio with Mplayer

One of the cool things about Linux is that we can use either the provided window manager or the command line to run specific applications. Take a look at this example…

I grew up listening BBC Radio boardcasts on my radio set even after the advent of cable TV I found it as different kind of experience all together.Now after a two decades the habit is hard to drop.

If you are hooked up to Internet on a fairly fast connection and run some kind of gnu/Linux operation system then here is simple way to listen to your fav’ radio programs while you work on your console.

Well, the commands are fairly self-explanatory and I prefer mplayer over other players and find it very robust and moreover I hate to start X server just to listen so music or watch movies.There are lot of players around, find the one you are comfortable with. [Read the rest]