Hi Dan,
My goal is not simply playing radio stations, or streams.
My goal is to reach specific stations, several of them, included in what
tune in provides, for professional reasons.
I run DOS on my computers. In fact the Box I am having built will, if
freedos manages multiprocessing, which I feel sure it does, be configured
so I can manage Linux resources as I do currently.
www.freedos.org
Currently I ssh, from DOS, into various Linux focused shell services.
If successful I will ssh into a Linux shell, but on a different drive of
my own machine, local as you state here.
Certainly I will have a sound card. But there will not be a stand alone
Linux machine, but a Linux shell install on one hard drive in this new
computer.
Does that make sense?
VLC or mplayer seem most likely, there is even a port of Mplayer for DOS.
Kind regards,
Kare
On Sat, 17 Oct 2026, Dan Ritter wrote:
Karen Lewellen wrote:
https://tunein.com
provides access to thousands of radio stations from around the world.
I am wondering if there is a Debian or Linux based application allowing one
to use the service?
I have read deeply into this thread, but am replying to the top.
First: there are console and command-line programs which can
play music from both local sources and network streams.
VLC has the cvlc command line mode.
mocp (music on console) is always a text interface.
Second: the output of a music program typically goes through a
local sound card, then to headphones or speakers or such. If the
Linux machine in question does not have a sound card, that
doesn't work. If there is a sound card but it is a hundred miles
away, that probably won't work for you.
However, the decoded sound is just a stream of bits, so it can
be pulled across the network and played on your local computer.
Doing so is fairly complicated and depends very much on what
your local computer is running.
It may be easier to persuade your local computer to play a music
stream from TuneIn or from a radio station's website directly.
Most radio stations now have streaming capability, and buried in
the HTML of their webpage is an m3u or mp3 URL, which can be
pulled out and fed directly to a player such as VLC or mocp.
I hope that is useful information.
