Turn Your Raspberry Pi into a DIY Internet Radio

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Published 2021-10-01
Radio has mostly moved on from adjusting antennae and tuning into frequencies, but turning your Raspberry Pi into an internet radio player brings back some of that old-school radio magic. Here's our in-depth tutorial on how to turn your Raspberry Pi into a free internet radio.

Pi Musicbox www.pimusicbox.com/
Bob Rathbone Raspberry Pi Internet Radio bobrathbone.com/raspberrypi/pi_internet_radio.html

Script by Phil South

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All Comments (12)
  • @simontopley4771
    Cheap 12v to 5v ? What do you plug in the cigarette lighter socket in your car to charge your phone?
  • @MS-yy2dh
    In my view radio has gone backwards in recent years. For example, it is now very difficult to find any radio with record or pause/rewind live radio. What I would like is an internet radio that will play and record the radio, be able to play MP3s from a memory device, and have a remote I can operate wit poor eyesight (ie not an app on a smart phone). Is there anyway to create such a device using a Raspberry pi?
  • @noel1637
    Nice. Lots of information in here. All I need is a one button device to start the only radio I listen to. Can't be arsed going through menus on a screen to start the radio. I adhere only to fast technology. Press one low tech button to execute what I need. Start the radio without requiring more of my attention pls. I made a radio with an openwrt router ten years ago. Might be looking to reproduce the same on a raspberrypi now.
  • @amaze11
    How long does it take for boot?
  • @mao73a
    Actually... What is the purpose, when you can achieve all that using old android smartphone? All in all one need a computer or smartphone to control this radio: change radio stations etc. Unfortunatelly old people prefer to control radio with physical buttons. This is something missing for me in this solution.
  • @GlennLittleford
    Please please please dont gut an old valve radio to fit a internet radio! The old valve radios are worth money and are only going up in price, some go for hundreds of dollars. Gutted, its worth nothing.