Archive.org radio

Play random tracks from archive.org's audio collection using Python and Feedparser

#!/usr/bin/env python
#-*- coding:utf-8 -*-
  
import feedparser, os
from pprint import pprint
from time import sleep
from random import shuffle

feedurl = "http://www.archive.org/services/collection-rss.php?collection=audio_music"
feed = feedparser.parse(feedurl)
shuffle(feed.entries)

for item in feed.entries:
    # pprint(item)
    try:
        songurl = item['enclosures'][0]['href']
        print item.get('title')
        print item.get('link')
        os.system('mplayer -really-quiet "%s" 2> /dev/null' % songurl)
    except KeyError:
        pass
    sleep(3)
    print

Use Ctrl-C to go to the next song. Ctrl-C twice to quit.