Turn Your Raspberry Pi into a DIY Internet Radio

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.

Script by Phil South

[TheNikolaschoulakis]

DAC A stands for analogue not audio. Nice project.

[noel]

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.

[simontopley]

Cheap 12v to 5v ? What do you plug in the cigarette lighter socket in your car to charge your phone?

[MS-yydh]

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?

[andywolan]

12:44 - Seeburg 1000 BGS, fine choice.

[maoa]

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.