Monday, 12 March 2018

Listen to blocked streams (somafm)

Since the excellent somafm.com is being blocked by my ISP for some reason, I have had to look for a work-around. Having discovered that I could listen through my TAILS vm, I read into Tor a bit more and discovered this:

torsocks cvlc -vv http://somfm.com/lush32.pls

This is running on a Raspberry Pi connected to my house stereo, and works without any configuration of Tor. Simply install Tor and it works. I am using the lowest bitrate stream assuming that Tor would struggle with higher, but haven't tested. Anyway it sounds great on the house stereo!