Hi Karen, On 24 Jun 2021, at 23:49, Karen Lewellen wrote:
> Links for DOS, for what it is, opens some doors, but not all, something I > would happily pay to see corrected. I know the tunein.com website (I've used it myself from time to time). I use a command line application (on MacOS) to access youtube videos and music streams (The application is called mps-youtube and is written in Python). This application is not a browser but is specially tailored towards youtube in such that it uses the Youtube API and knows how to extract information from the Youtube website. I guess something similar would be theoretical possible for the tunein.com website, even as a DOS application. However it would be much work to write such an application, but less work than getting a general purpose browser such as Links enhanced to be able to browse the tunein.com page. One possible issue I see is that a page such as tunein.com could try to make accessing the music streams without a full browser very difficult, as they might change the page structure frequently. Webpages like tunein.com often make their money through advertisement, and they try to prevent all ways that users can access the content of the page without seeing the advertisements. As far as I see, tunein.com does not provide the music/radio content themself, but they aggregate content from other places (such as German radio stations). So maybe to reach your goal, an alternative solution might be to have a command line tool that aggregates web radio stations in the same way tunein.com does, but without using the tunein.com website. Still, creating such an application is quite difficult. I myself as a developer would have no idea if under DOS it is possible to get useable audio streaming via network. If I was tasked by a customer to design a solution, I would write the frontend in DOS (to browse and select the audio streams), and that front end would communicate via network or serial like with a small Linux system (Raspberry PI style) attached to the DOS computer. The Linux box would be doing the downloading of the audio stream and the audio processing. The user would not interact with the Linux system at all, all interaction would be on DOS, but the Linux "box" would be a "hardware" extension for audio stream processing. Greetings Carsten
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