AdBlockRadio - Internet radio player that blocks advertisements

Detects advertisements by inspecting song titles inside stream metadata and switches automatically to another radio station, when an ad is detected.

Requirements:

• Python 3.4 or newer
• GStreamer 1.X
• Python bindings for GStreamer
• PyQt4
• Python packages: appdirs, plac, requests

Download:

Binary packages for the following OSes are provided:

• Ubuntu 16.04 64-bit:

  python3-adblockradio_0.3.2-1_all.deb

If you want to run the player on another OS, you might need to install it manually - see below.

How to customize:

After you install the player you need to add your radio stations and setup blacklist patterns.

1. Edit list of radio stations in config.py

2. Add blacklist regex patterns for advertisements from the context menu of the notification icon. Blacklist patterns are saved in file ~/.local/share/adblockradio/blacklist.txt, which can also be edited manually.

3. Start player with GUI in system tray:

   python3 adblockradio/adblockradio.py
   

   or, to start with a specific radio station:

   python3 adblockradio/adblockradio.py --station URL_TO_RADIO_STREAM
   

How to install manually:

Ubuntu 16.04:

1. Download project:

   cd ~/
   git clone https://github.com/quasoft/adblockradio.git
   cd adblockradio
   

2. Install dependencies and desktop file

   make develop
   make install
   

3. Start player with GUI in system tray:

   python3 adblockradio/adblockradio.py
   

   or in console mode (eg. for debugging purposes):

   python3 adblockradio/adblockradio.py --console
   

   If you have Anaconda Python installed, use full path to Python binary (replace python3 with /usr/bin/python3)

   You can add more radio stations to config.py file

How to build installer/OS package:

The steps to build the installer are only needed if you have modified the project or want to build the installer yourself for some reason.

For Ubuntu/Debian:

make init
make deb
sudo gdebi deb_dist/python3-adblockradio_0.3.2-1_all.deb

For Windows 10 64 bit:

To build the binary package for Window yourself, follow these steps:

1. Install Python 3.4, 32-bit version. This is important as PyGi currently does not support Python versions newer than 3.4.

2. Install All-In-One PyGI/PyGObject for Windows (tested with pygi-aio-3.18.2_rev12-setup). During setup you have to select the following libraries:

   • Gst-plugins 1.10.4
   • Gst-plugins-extra 1.10.4
   • GStreamer 1.10.4
   • GTK+ 3.18.9

3. Upgrade pip of Python 3.4:

   python.exe -m pip install --upgrade pip
   

4. Find and download a suitable wheel file for PyQt4 (tested with PyQt4-4.11.4-cp34-cp34m-win32.whl)

5. Install PyQt4 for Python:

   python.exe -m pip install PyQt4-4.11.4-cp34-cp34m-win32.whl
   

6. Make sure the player works - python.exe adblockradio\adblockradio.py

7. Run pyinstaller adblockradio.spec

8. The ready binary package should be available in folder adblockradio\dist\adblockradio

Credits

• System tray icons by https://www.iconfinder.com/ChihabJr