Q2 Radio - Linux - Unsupported workaround for manual insertion of internet radio URL's

Q2 Radio - Linux - Unsupported workaround for manual insertion of internet radio URL's

THE BELOW WORKAROUND WAS PROVIDED BY Q2 RADIO USERS, IT IS UNSUPPORTED AND REQUIRES SOME UNDERSTANDING OF LINUX AND WINDOWS POWERSHELL

As a workaround I have restored my channels to the Q2 by manually locating the relevant radio stream direct URLs (google search) and setting them on the Q2 using a third-party Linux client. I have put together some brief instructions on how to do the latter on Microsoft Windows with WSL.


The linked brief instructions read. (credit. J. Adamson, 2025)

# Open elevated Powershell
wsl.exe --install
# Installed WSL and the default distro, Ubuntu 24.04
# Prompted to reboot, done
# Open elevated Powershell
wsl.exe -l -v
    Windows Subsystem for Linux has no installed distributions. <== Weird and incorrect!
wsl.exe --install Ubuntu
    Ubuntu is already installed.
    Launching Ubuntu...
# Set up username/password
sudo su -
apt update
# Possibly one or two non-essential packages here
apt install -y usbutils libusb-1.0-0-dev libusb-dev build-essential g++-10
# Note the number of USB devices
lsusb

# Install usbipd-win from downloadable MSI file - https://github.com/dorssel/usbipd-win
# Open separate new elevated Powershell window
# Connect Q2 Radio to PC by USB
# The following command will list Bus IDs, take note of the one that pertains to the Q2
usbipd list
usbipd bind --busid {BUSIS}
usbipd attach --wsl --busid={BUSID}
# Check that it's now shared. if you need to detech, use usbipd detach --busid={BUSID}
usbipd list 

# Back in original Powershell window:
# You should now se an extra USB device (the Q2) after running lsusb
lsusb
cd ~
cd q2radio/src
make
make install
# You can now follow the Run Examples in https://github.com/vporpo/q2radio/blob/master/README.md

Update 24-02-2025
There is now a Windows build, please see here https://github.com/vporpo/q2radio

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