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[mediageek]

Hi all. I have been trying to figure out (wthout success, so far) how to add a bookmark to a specific streaming radio station (RadioParadise.com), and have the song titles show up when the song changes - as happens when streaming radio through a shoutcast link. I tried creating a playlist of the stream locations in a local file. The file contained these stream addresses:

http://64.236.34.4:80/stream/1048
http://64.236.34.67:80/stream/1048
http://64.236.34.97:80/stream/1048
http://64.236.34.196:80/stream/1048

Those addresses, by the way, can be linked to via the playlist on the web page for radioparadise:

 http://www.radioparadise.com/musiclinks/rp_128.m3u

When I select the playlist, there is a long buffer delay (which I don't see when running a shoutcast link), and then the music is played without showing song titles.

I can select this station from my shoutcast list and it works without the buffer delay, and shows song titles. I can make a link to a short list of broadcast choices for this radio station using the Search option:

            <path>shout://www.shoutcast.com/sbin/newxml.phtml?search=radioparadise</path>

That is what I have set up now. It works, but the dozen or so choices that show up all have the same description and it is trial and error to find the choice with the best sound (they broadcast from 16K to 192K). It would be much better to have a single choice bookmark.

Can anyone tell me if there is a bookmark option that will get me what I want?

[Devedander]

QUOTE(mediageek @ May 22 2006, 04:46 PM)

Hi all. I have been trying to figure out (wthout success, so far) how to add a bookmark to a specific streaming radio station (RadioParadise.com), and have the song titles show up when the song changes - as happens when streaming radio through a shoutcast link. I tried creating a playlist of the stream locations in a local file. The file contained these stream addresses:

http://64.236.34.4:80/stream/1048
http://64.236.34.67:80/stream/1048
http://64.236.34.97:80/stream/1048
http://64.236.34.196:80/stream/1048

Those addresses, by the way, can be linked to via the playlist on the web page for radioparadise:

 http://www.radioparadise.com/musiclinks/rp_128.m3u

When I select the playlist, there is a long buffer delay (which I don't see when running a shoutcast link), and then the music is played without showing song titles.

I can select this station from my shoutcast list and it works without the buffer delay, and shows song titles. I can make a link to a short list of broadcast choices for this radio station using the Search option:

            <path>shout://www.shoutcast.com/sbin/newxml.phtml?search=radioparadise</path>

That is what I have set up now. It works, but the dozen or so choices that show up all have the same description and it is trial and error to find the choice with the best sound (they broadcast from 16K to 192K). It would be much better to have a single choice bookmark.

Can anyone tell me if there is a bookmark option that will get me what I want?

Are you sure that source sends out the song name?  I mean can you play it in something else that does show the names?  Because maybe the source you are linking too (unlike the shoutcast ones) doesn't support that feature.

[mediageek]

QUOTE(Devedander @ May 22 2006, 12:04 PM)

Are you sure that source sends out the song name?  I mean can you play it in something else that does show the names?  Because maybe the source you are linking too (unlike the shoutcast ones) doesn't support that feature.

Yes. I can play in WinAmp or on my Roku Soundbridge, and the song titles are there.

[mediageek]

I figured out how to get the shoutcast listings to show the bitrate of the streams - by viewing as a "list" (as opposed to icons). That helps a lot with finding the right link to play. I also found this in the xbmc on-line manual:

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If you want to listen to radio streams you can do it (IMG:style_emoticons/default/smile.gif) (Videostreams should work as well.)

Create a file with the extension .strm and fill it with the URL of the stream. This should look like: mms://host/path/to/stream or rtsp://host/path/to/stream, though other protocols are supported such as http://host/path/to/somefile.mp3.
Put the .strm file somewhere and open it with the XBMC.

Have fun!

But, as with my attempt at puting the stream links in a playlist, this method takes 20 seconds to buffer, and still doesn't show song titles. I suppose the stream player doesn't support song titles from MP3 streams yet.

[spiff]

reason is, there is no way for xbmc to tell if you are trying to play a video stream or an audio stream. hence it uses the video cache size (to be sure); and you'll get the LONG buffering delay.

if you however help xbmc by using shout:// instead of http:// (just replace in the urls) and put them in a file with extension .strm, all should be gold.

[mediageek]

QUOTE(spiff @ May 23 2006, 09:34 AM)

reason is, there is no way for xbmc to tell if you are trying to play a video stream or an audio stream. hence it uses the video cache size (to be sure); and you'll get the LONG buffering delay.

if you however help xbmc by using shout:// instead of http:// (just replace in the urls) and put them in a file with extension .strm, all should be gold.

Awesome!! Very cool - it works like a champ. Thank you thank you thank you.

[Lostinspace]

I also had this Problem; now I can see the Title Information and also record.
Thanks (IMG:style_emoticons/default/smile.gif)