Lofi Radio for Coding: Build a Terminal Player with Python and mpv
Plenty of us keep lofi radio for coding running in a browser tab that slowly eats memory next to twelve other tabs. This weekend project replaces that tab with a tiny terminal player: about 60 lines of Python, mpv doing the heavy lifting, and now playing info pulled straight from the stream. You will learn how internet radio streams actually expose track titles, how to deal with playlist files, and how to keep a player alive when a stream drops. A radio stream is an HTTP response that never end…