Net-Radio is a cross platform audio player with a graphical user interface; designed to store and play live audio streams broadcast by internet radio stations. The project is still under active development, however the features mentioned in this README have already been implemented. This README offers only a bried overview of the projects current state and will be rewritten in the latter stages of project to reflect the projects final state.
Audio playback is supported by GStreamer which is capable of constructing custom pipelines on the fly containing the audio demuxers & decoders required to process any provided audio source. This enables Net- Radio to support a large variety of container formats (aac,ogg,mp3...) and layer 7 protocols (http, rtsp, mms).
Net-Radio is able to show stream metadata updates in live time, including the details of the current track being played by the radio station. It is also able to extract the stations "genre" as defined by the station owner without requiring the user to classify the genre themselves.
OpenCSV is used to implement a persistence mechanism for storing station details and statistics between sessions.
The GUI has been constructed using the JafaFX library (enforces MVC). The view is defined in manually written FXML files. The view and controllers have been split into separate components allowing the view to remain flexible to future changes. An adapter to the model triggers events which enables all controllers to respond to the actions of other controllers while maintaining a loose coupling between controllers.
Environment dependencies:
- GStreamer >= v1.8
- Java SE 15
- Maven
Package dependencies managed by Maven:
- gst1-java-core v1.4 - Java bindings for GStreamer
- OpenCSV v5.3 - Used to store station details between sessions
Audio sources offering streams in the following container formats are supported (list is not conclusive):
- MP3
- AAC
- OGG
- WAV
