![]() ![]() ![]() I’ve only started on this project, but I used an old (very old) iPod touch, entered the stream URL into Safari, placed the iPod in a docking station (a dime/dozen at second-hand stores) and basically created an internet radio facsimile. pls files ( as described in other Reciva postings in this blog), you can easily copy those to many other devices (Android phone/tablet, iPod/iPhone, other computers, Kodi, etc.) and use them there. While digging out steams is tedious–especially if you have a lot of them–there’s a potentially very rewarding payoff! When you create the. For those, I would get them to work by adding a semicolon ( ) to the end of what you think might be the link. You can download the file, then open with a text editor (Notepad for example) and read the link there.įor some, the URL won’t work. In a browser, those links tend to initiate a download (at least on my setup, and was the case with the M3U file in the KCLU example). Sometimes the URLs point to a link with a. But generally, if it didn’t work on the computer, it didn’t work on the internet radio. I often tried any proposed streams out on my desktop computer first, however there were some that wouldn’t play on the desktop that did on the Reciva radio, and vise-versa. Sometimes the stream URL is httpS://…., with those, try dropping the “s” and the often works. In the developer tools window under Name, sometimes those items (files) are labelled as just a semicolon, or are labelled something like ‘stream.’ A few things that might add clarification with ‘odd’ streams: Firefox seems similar (F12) and other browsers probably also work similar, though the appearance might be a bit different. The examples shown used Google Chrome, and the Brave browser works exactly the same. There isn’t really any one set of instructions that will work for everything (that I’ve found anyway!). The procedure is essentially the same with other pages, though there is often variation so a certain amount of experimentation is sometimes needed to tease out the stream URLs. Opening that file with Notepad reveals this link ( ), which also plays the stream, and in my guess, is probably the real stream URL.ĭifferent web pages will reveal different ‘formats’ of URLs–one simply has to experiment to get something to work. However, in this case (and most certainly not all), shortening the link to brings up another page with all sorts of data, and clicking the M3U file on that page downloads a file. In this case, the link can be shortened to: and the stream still plays in a web browser on the computer–while I’ve not tested it, it would probably play in your internet radio. That’s a little messy, and you can experiment with shortening it. In this example, this is the link address copied: That is usually your stream, or something close to it. Look for the file associated with the “bar” under “Name”, right-click on that file, Copy, and left-click “Copy link address” as shown in the Image 7 below. Sorting the files in this window by size or time (if descending order, be at the top of the list, if descending order at the bottom of the list) can make searching for the “bar” easier, or just look for it in the list as shown in the Image 6 above. While the stream is playing, look for the longest bar, which indicates activity. In the Developer Tools window, select “Network”, as shown in the Image 5 above. Then Press “F5” to reload the page, and the Play button to start the audio stream. Using an example of the webpage for the NPR station KCLU, once loaded, press “F12” to bring up the developer tools as shown on the right-hand side of Image 4 below. Extracting Audio Stream Information from station websitesĭigging out streams from station websites can be a little trickier. The URL is shown in the “Console” window (image 04), and should be and not the secure http s://xxxxxx. Under “DevTools”, select “Console” (you may find it under the >) as shown in the image above. Pressing “F12” brings up another window of DevTools (Developer Tools). That brings up another browser window (center-right window in Image 3 below). After logging in and searching for your desired station(s) (as shown in Image 1 above using NPR as an example search), click the speaker icon of the station of interest (see Image 2 below). ![]()
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