Select and listen to a radio station from Digitally Imported with mplayer & dmenu

Readme.md

Usage

1. Put this script in your path
2. Install dmenu & mplayer
3. Run via $> radio-di.sh

radio-di.sh

#!/bin/bash -xe

# stop previous mplayer
pkill mplayer || true

# use either the first script parameter or a default digitally imported playlist
PLAYLIST_URL=${1:-https://gist.githubusercontent.com/sim642/4f73e3e145fd1eac8c39/raw/43dbe82623404c0f549a7391b5a618f5fd89f4dc/DI.m3u}

# get the content and let the user 
STATION_URLS=$(curl $PLAYLIST_URL | grep http)

# select one station using dmenu (simple UI based filtering)
STATION_URL=$(printf "$STATION_URLS" | dmenu)

# start player and display notification on track change
mplayer $STATION_URL \
| grep --line-buffered -Eo StreamTitle.* \
| grep --line-buffered -Eo "'[^']*'" \
| xargs -L 1 notify-send