A headless music player which supports internet radio and streaming.

• Get the latest release from github.com/MikMuellerDev/radio/releases
• Extract the tar archive

• Make sure that sudo is installed on the target machine
• Execute the file install.sh as non-root
• The application files will be installed at /usr/bin/radio
• The configuration file will be installed at /etc/radio/config.toml
• Radio can then be controlled via systemd: sudo systemctl enable radio --now

• Execute the following command to start radio ./radio run
• On the first launch, a new configuration file will be created without starting the service

Under normal conditions, the service creates a configuration file named config.toml in the working directory where it is launched. If the service is launched with the -c flag, the configuration path can be customized.

port = 8083
session_key = "must be over 64 characters long"

The configuration file includes the port variable which determines the port on which radio's HTTP server will listen on.

The session_key must be over 64 characters long and should be kept secret. On Unix-like systems, such a key can be generated using the following command:

openssl rand -hex 64

Users can be added in the users list in the configuration file. Every user must have a unique username and should be protected via a secure password.

[[users]]
username = "admin" # A unique username
password = "secret" # A secure password


[[users]]
username = "another_username"
password = "secret2"

Generally speaking, radio should support most MP3 network streams. It does