Listen to streaming internet radio via terminal on Ubuntu

Okay, so this might be a tad geeky, but I dislike overhead when I’m working on my work laptop.. And since I couldn’t find a streaming music player with a low memory footprint I loved this mplayer solution which can play your internet streams via a bash terminal.
Apt-get install mplayer or mplayer2 and then just execute this command in any terminal

mplayer http://pr320.pinguinradio.nl:80/

Which will result in the following:

Screenshot Mplayer in Terminal on Ubuntu
Screenshot Mplayer in Terminal on Ubuntu

And it will update the stream title through the console so you can still see which artist and song are playing! A thing of beauty, isn’t it!?

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