Free talk radio software for linux

iRATE radio provides users with a powerful new way to find and download free, legal music online.

Users rate tracks based on their tastes. The iRATE server then selects other tracks to send to the user from a database of over 50,000 freely downloadable songs by correlating the users ratings with other users, and finding people with similar tastes.

Unlike streaming audio, iRATE saves the tracks to the users hard drive. This means that playback is smoother, without the typical problems associated with streaming media, such as high bandwidth usage.

Ximba Radio project is a GTK+ based user interface to the OpenXM daemon for controlling an XMPCR (a USB-connected XM Radio for PCs). The daemon manages a USB connected XMPCR receiver, which in turn pumps the audio signal into your audio cards input port. The daemon runs in the background and the UI connects to it to manage stations, favorites, and audio
Main features:
- Connecting to and starting up the radio.
- Disconnecting from and shutting down the radio.
- Channel up, Channel down
- Jump to channel
- Back to previous channel
- Mute on / off
- Preferences
- Channel listing window that can be hidden from view.
- Artist and Channel Favorites
- Notify when a favorite artist is playing on some station other than the current one, allow quick jump to that station.
- Category Tabs
- Session History

dbox2Tradio allows you to listen to radio and watch tv channels using external helper applications (xmms/xine). The shell-style script remotely accesses the dbox2 and performs any action via the (Neutrino) web-interface.

dbox2Tradio supports bouquets and is highly user-configurable. That is, before running, you need to adjust language and helper applications. Nevermind, its an easy task: Use the source! You need a dbox2 running Linux.

YTalk is a compatible replacement for the Unix talk(1) program, which adds a number of features. Mainly, it can talk to more than one person at a time, and it can the two different types of talk daemons out there.
To install this commands are usefull:
./configure
make
make install
YTalk was written and maintained by Britt Yenne up to verison 3.0pl2. That version was released years ago, and there have been no new releases since then, so I (Roger Espel Llima, ) have taken up maintenance, updating the code to work with newer Unixes, fixing bugs and adding new features.
YTalk is free software, which can be freely redistributed, used and modified as long as the copyright notices are kept in the source and header files.
Main features:
- multiple simultaneous connections, compatible with Unix Talk as well as previous versions of YTalk.
- text-based or X11 interface, at your choice
- YTalk windows scroll, instead of wrapping around
- start shells inside YTalk, type commands and let your partners see them
- Ytalk is 8-bit clean, so you can type all those cool accented characters
- you can save any side of the current conversation, including yours
- you can define aliases for addresses of people to ring or for hostnames to ring them on.
- support for virtual hosts and multi-homed machines
- YTalk is very configurable
- lots of bugfixes, especially on Linux and Solaris
- even more bugfixes now
- Ytalk is Y2K clean; as far as I know it has always been, since all the date-processing it does is comparing Unix timestamps in seconds since 1 Jan 1970. This is silly, but Ive been asked a couple times already about Ytalks Y2K status...
Enhancements:
- try to look for the current machines fqdn if hostname() doenst
- include a .
- fixed the shell under Solaris (oops, broke it in 3.1!)
- misc autoconf fixes
- resizing didnt work with Linux and ncurses, fixed it
- YTalk now checks that connections are answered form the expected host;
- if they arent, it complains and shows the new hostname
- n-way talk sessions should now be free of duplicated users
- fixed the "readdress" option somewhat
- portability fixes for 64-bit machines (size_t instead of int)

TALK is a strictly and statically typed assembly language that is flexible and powerful enough to write operating system kernels.

For example, memory management (i.e. malloc/free) and multi-thread management can be implemented in TALK.

KRadio project is a comfortable KDE radio application. The initial release was written by Frank Schwanz. In Jan. 2002 I took over the project to add some new features.
Main features:
- support for V4L and V4L2 based radio card drivers
- NEW: Timeshift playing: press the pause button and later continue listening where you stopped!
- NEW: dynamically loadable plugins
- NEW: Ogg/Vorbis recording (libogg/libvorbis required)
- MP3 recording (libmp3lame required)
- attended and unattended recording
- database with station preset files, station search
- lirc support
- alarms (weekday specific if you wish), stations and volume may be assigned, types: start/stop play, start/stop recording
- sleep countdown functions
- docking menu, includes menu entries for preferred stations
- quickbar, toolbar with buttons for preferred stations
- icons for stations in quickbar, display, etc.
- error logging window instead of nerving messageboxes:)
- plugin library architecture, kradio is ready for new radio types (e.g. internet radio), your own radio display, etc.

DangoTalk project is a OS X Dashboard Widget that allows you to use the Interconnect API to make free phone calls between any two PSNT DIDs.

The system is built using Asterisk.

Upon request the Interconnect service will call the two numbers and connect them... similar to click-to-talk... but initated from a desktop application instead of a web application.

Multitalk project is a presentation program designed for giving more interactive and engaging talks. Slides are laid out in a two- dimensional canvas that you navigate in any direction, in real time, using the mouse.
All of your talks can be merged into the same space. You can zoom out and create hyperlinks between slides. Each slide may also contain nested expandable sections like a folding text editor. Every slide can have an arbitrary style to control layout and visual appearance.
Why another presentation program?
Other presentation programs force you to arrange your talk in a fixed order, and then to step through it in sequence - often while reading out the slides to the audience in a tedious manner! This means that in those programs:
- Theres no way to change the direction of your talk at presentation-time based on audience feedback.
- You cant have "optional" parts which you expand upon for longer, more detailed talks and present at an overview level otherwise, except by skipping slides.
- Theres no easy way to show central concepts or illustrate ones progress through the structure of the talk, except by regularly reinserting copies of the contents page.
- The speaker isnt actively involved in steering through and explaining the material, which can lead to poor communication.
- Updating multiple talks with shared material is difficult.
- You cannot view all of your talks in the same space.
- Presentation concerns are emphasised over content because slides are initially designed in a GUI rather than as plain text.
- Often the same template is used for all slides in a talk; putting the same abstract-but-vaguely-hitech-looking coloured pattern in the corner of each slide doesnt really add much to the talk.
What does Multitalk do better?
- Slides are laid out for display in a two-dimensional space which you can choose to navigate in real time in any direction.
- Slide text is written in a markup language using a normal text editor.
- Image placement is still controlled in a WYSIWYG manner using the program itself (which is quicker than pure markup language spacing commands).
- Slides can be any size and automatically resize to fit their contents; you can view multiple small ones at once or part of very large ones, so logical units dont have to be stretched to screen size.
- You can zoom out to rearrange slides or get an overview of the talk.
- Each slide acts like a folding text editor, with definable blocks which can be collapsed and expanded during the talk.
- You can define hyperlinks between different slides, which are spatially animated.
- You can define your own style templates to override all visual aspects, and each slide can independently use any style to highlight topics as required (you can have multiple "master slides" in other terminology).
Enhancements:
- This version adds LaTeX integration, which allows LaTeX syntax to be embedded within any slides text.