Pianobar
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Pianobar is a free/open-source, console-based client for the personalized online radio Pandora.
Features
- play and manage (create, add more music, delete, rename, ...) stations
- rate songs and explain why they have been selected
- upcoming songs/song history
- customize keybindings and text output
- remote control and eventcmd interface (send tracks to last.fm, for example)
- proxy support for listeners outside the USA
Contents
Installation
Pianobar can be installed from the Official repositories with the package pianobar.
Configuration
First, you need to create a configuration file for Pianobar. This should be located at $XDG_CONFIG_HOME/pianobar/config
or ~/.config/pianobar/config
$ man pianobar
CONFIGURATION The configuration file consists of simple key = value lines, each ter‐ minated with a newline (\n) character. Note that keys and values are both case sensitive, and there must be exactly one space on each side of the equals sign. act_* keys control pianobar's key-bindings. Every one-byte character except for \x00 and the special value disabled are allowed here.
Here is an example configuration file. See man pianobar
for more configuration options.
$ ~/.config/pianobar/config
audio_quality = {high, medium, low} autostart_station = stationid password = plaintext_password user = your@user.name
Troubleshooting
Sound Quality Issues
If you are experiencing sound/quality issues when running pianobar, and you are currently using ALSA as your sound driver, the following fixes may be useful.
- Install alsa-oss. See the ALSA page for more information.
- Change the default libao driver from alsa to oss.
# /etc/libao.conf default_driver=oss
- Now run pianobar
-
$ aoss pianobar
-
- Alternatively, you can use pulseaudio.
# /etc/libao.conf default_driver=pulse
Network Error
If you are receiving the "Network error: TLS fingerprint mismatch" error when running pianobar the following fixes may be useful.
- obtain the current tls_fingerprint by running the following command:
# openssl s_client -connect tuner.pandora.com:443 < /dev/null 2> /dev/null | openssl x509 -noout -fingerprint | tr -d ':' | cut -d'=' -f2
- add this output to ~/.config/pianobar/config:
~/.config/pianobar/config
audio_quality = high password = password user = email address tls_fingerprint = 13CC51AC0C31CD96C55015C76914360F7AC41A00