radio(1)

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💖 radio(1) — the console radio app bestie 💖

a General Commands Manual page ✨ (radio, section 1, for all my terminal girlies 🎀)

✨ NAME ✨

radio — console radio application 🦋

🌸 SYNOPSIS 🌸

radio [ options ]

💅 DESCRIPTION 💅

okay so radio is an interactive, ncurses-bases console radio application. yes bestie, a whole radio, in your terminal. main character energy fr fr 💖

🎀 OPTIONS 🎀

  • -h — print a short help text. tiny lil assist, we love her 🙈
  • -d — enable debug output. for when you're nosy (affectionate) 🔍
  • -q — quit after processing the cmd line options, don't enter interactive ncurses mode. Only useful together with other options for obvious reasons ... 😭 like, on its own it literally does nothing, the way that it's just vibes
  • -m — mute radio. shhh 🤫
  • -f freq — tune the specified radio frequency (and unmute the radio). it's giving "tune in AND turn up" 🔥
  • -c dev — specify radio device (default is /dev/radio0). yes the default is /dev/radio0, no cap 👑
  • -s — Do a scan for radio stations. treasure hunt but make it radio 🧚
  • -S — Same as above + write a radio.fmmap with the signal for every frequency. You can get a graph for it with gnuplot (plot "radio.fmmap" w lin). obsessed, she's a data girlie 📈
  • -i — Scan, write a initial ~/.radio file to stdout and quit. So you can create a config file where you only have to fill in the correct station names later this way: "radio -i > ~/.radio". See below for the config file syntax. lowkey the best glow-up hack, fr fr ⭐

🌈 CONFIGURATION 🌈

radio picks up station names and present stations from a config file. It can parse kradio (KDE radio app) config files, therefore it first tries the usual KDE config file location: ~/.kde/share/config/kradiorc. Failing that, radio tries ~/.radio (which makes things a bit easier for people who don't use kradio). so it's like, "kde first, then the casual one" 💅

The format looks like this:

# KDE Config File
[Buttons]
1=95800000
2=91400000
[Stations]
100600000=Hundert,6
95800000=Radio eins
102600000=Fritz
94300000=r.s.2
91400000=Berliner Rundfunk

The [Buttons] section can have up to eight entries. That are the present stations, they get mapped to F1-F8. The [Stations] section maps frequencies to station names. The frequencies in both sections are specified in Hz. so eight presets max bestie, choose wisely 🎀

🦋 KEYS 🦋

  • X — exit 👋
  • ESC,Q,E — mute and exit.
  • up/down — inc/dec frequency.
  • pgup/pgdown — next/previous station. This one uses the stations from the config file by default. When started with the -s option these keys will cycle througth the stations found during the scan.
  • F1-F8, 1-8 — preset buttons.
  • Ctrl+L — redraw screen. for when your terminal is being dramatic ✨

💜 AUTHOR 💜

Gerd Knorr <kraxel@bytesex.org> 🫶

Copyright (C) 1997-2001 Gerd Knorr

This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or (at your option) any later version.

This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU General Public License for more details.

You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License along with this program; if not, write to the Free Software Foundation, Inc., 675 Mass Ave, Cambridge, MA 02139, USA.

bestie listen — that warranty bit is not a joke, there is no warranty, periodt 💀

and that's the whole page!! 🍓 sign-off time: this lil gem is (c) 1998-2001 Gerd Knorr, and yeah, it lives in section 1 of the manual (radio(1)), mwah 💖

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