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# Pianobar

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Pianobar is a free/open-source, console-based client for the personalized online radio Pandora (only available in the USA).

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

Tip: Since Pianobar is a command line interface based program it can be placed in a different virtual terminal than your desktop and be left to run.

## Installation

Install the pianobar package.

## 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 pianobar(1) 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.

Warning: The provided fixes may affect other applications that use audio as the default driver is being changed.

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

Note: Be sure to remove the `dev=default` option of the ALSA driver or adjust it to specify a specific Pulse sink name or number.

### Network Error

If you are receiving the `Network error: Peer certificate cannot be authenticated with given CA certificates`, try adding the following line:

    ~/.config/pianobar/config

    ca_bundle = /etc/ca-certificates/extracted/tls-ca-bundle.pem

## See also

- Project's homepage
- Project's GitHub
- https://wiki.k2patel.in/pianobar

Categories:

- Music
- Streaming