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I found out that listening to radio in terminal using "mplayer url" is much better than any software around, but after a while, terminal prints out a message saying low on cache.

How can I increase the cache in the terminal? Is it possible to free the used cache periodically while listening to the radio?

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You can set mplayer's cache with -cache argument on command line as well as specifying the initial cache fill before playback with '-cache-min'.

Try:

$ mplayer -cache 8192 -cache-min 80 <url>

p.s. 8192 should be enough, however, you can increase that number according to your needs. Note that the initial cache fill without the '-cache-min' option is only 20%.

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  • My edit adds in the -cache-min option and brief explanatory note...
    – andrew.46 ♦
    May 21, 2014 at 22:11
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To listen Internet-Radio from a terminal I would recommend pyradio

As far as I know it uses mplayer and vlc in the background but has a really nice command-line interface.

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