Archive.org radio
Revision as of 17:49, 20 June 2011 by Michael Murtaugh (talk | contribs)
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.