This project was spawned from the wish to have an easy way
to refer to internet audio broadcasting channels such as those listed at shoutcast.com, and this should be possible
from the command line. There is already an excellent player that supports
most of the broadcasting formats out there, i.e. mplayer. All that is needed is some glue to
ease the playing of internet radio stations.
Summary
I've chosen to split the wrapper into three files, a config file for basic
configuration e.g. how large should the cache be, should ALSA be used etc., a
file with a list of channels and their descriptions, and a script which uses
the the other files to to decide which player to use, and the URL to the
relevant station. The script is implemented as a perl script.