The Indie Beat - Simple Desktop Client

A small system tray application for streaming The Indie Beat Radio.

I wrote this because I wanted something that did not depend on a full desktop environment, and that could easily be controlled from the system tray in a mimalistic desktop such as Sway or i3 (which I use on my MNT Pocket Reform).

For a slightly more feature-rich experience, check out my GNOME Shell extension for The Indie Beat.

Features

• Stream The Indie Beat Radio channels
• Minimal system tray interface
• Simple playback control

Dependencies

System Packages

Debian/Ubuntu

(specifically, Debian unstable on MNT Pocket Reform; I assume the packages may be the same on other Debian derivatives)

sudo apt install \
    python3-gi \
    gir1.2-gtk-3.0 \
    gir1.2-ayatanaappindicator3-0.1 \
    gstreamer1.0-plugins-good \
    gstreamer1.0-plugins-bad \
    gstreamer1.0-libav

Fedora

sudo dnf install \
    python3-gobject \
    gtk3 \
    libayatana-appindicator-gtk3 \
    gstreamer1-plugins-good \
    gstreamer1-plugins-bad-free \
    gstreamer1-libav

Python Dependencies

pip install -r requirements.txt

Installation

1. Clone the repository
2. Install system and Python dependencies
3. Run the application:

python3 ./tibr-player.py

Contributing

Contributions are welcome! Please feel free to submit a Pull Request.

License

This project is licensed under the MIT License. See LICENSE for details.

Author

👤 Andy Piper - @[email protected]

Credits

Powered by The Indie Beat Radio and Bandwagon. Built with Python, GTK, and GStreamer.