Radio Tray: Best Way To Listen Internet Streaming Radio in Linux

Listening to streaming radio is always fun. Most of the Linux music player provide option for Internet streaming radio. While you have this option in your favourite music player, you might not always want to open and run your resource hungry media player.

What is the alternative option then, you ask. What about an applet that just sit on the top panel and does what you want it to do, which is to play streaming music from your favourite internet radio channel. Enters Radio Tray: a sleek, lightweight indicator applet to play streaming music from internet radio channels.

What are the features?

Radio Tray comes with a number of radio channels stored in it. These internet radio channels are grouped as per their genre. Apart from that you can configure it to play your favourite radio channel. You can add a whole new group or just channels.

Radio Tray integrates with Ubuntu magnificently. There is a notification every time the song or radio station changes. And that notification mix very well with Ubuntu without disturbing its integrity.

There are several plugins available that further enables you to enhance your experience with Radio Tray. You can also configure it to use Gnome media key. It supports a number of music playlist formats so it should play most (if not all) of your favourite internet radio channels.

How to install it in Ubuntu?

Use the following commands in terminal (Ctrl+Alt+T):

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:eugenesan/ppa 
sudo apt-get update 
sudo apt-get install radiotray

Worth trying?

Radio Tray is not a replacement of your media player. It is useful for what it is made for and that is playing internet radio without eating much of resources. If you are an avid streaming radio listener then Radio Tray is definitely worth a try.