Topic: Streaming Radio Fun!

I have been having fun adding streams to my infocast 3.5 units, I found several interesting live streams on http://radio-locator.com

I am looking for some that are not easily available, like Glenn Beck.

On the website
http://www.glennbeck.com/content/radio/#

There's a link to a working flash stream, which opens a separate window with

http://www.glennbeck.com/publish/themes … ve_player/
and media url

http://www.glennbeck.com/publish/themes … yer_v5.swf

But I don't think a swf file will work on the chumby. 

Does anyone (Bobsz?) know where to find the correct url for Chumby, if one exists?

2 (edited by bobsz 2012-09-04 17:32:40)

Re: Streaming Radio Fun!

You have a challenge there. Radio-locator is a great tool, but only shows real "brick and mortar" radio stations. The Glenn Beck site only exists online, a flash replay of his broadcast radio show, so you won't find it there. And, the site offers no mp3-type stream. So here you have to work backwards. Find a station that broadcasts the show and streams it in m3u/pls. (Often shown as a "Winamp or "Shoutcast" stream.) The Glenn Beck site doesn't even have a station list- I guess they *really* want you to listen to it there (and see their ads!) I found a list of his stations here:

http://tunein.com/radio/options/The-Gle … am-p20277/

Problem is, the links there open in a player window. But you can look at the list to find a station with a steam, and go back to Radio-Locator Guide. For example, KNEW Oakland has a morning stream of the show at at:

http://www.surfmusic.de/media/kkgn-am.m3u

Unfortunately, if you want Glenn Beck 24/7, you'll have to find 8 stations. I noticed a bad trend looking for this. A lot of stations have abandoned their old streaming links, now going flash, *many* all of a suddenly going to iHeart. Too bad iHeart offers no search feature on Chumby. They really want to serve you up the ads. Your old analogy was great: it looks like the Clear-Channel Borg has now assimilated iHeart (or the other way around.)

I recently bought a tablet and had no idea how much advertising we were spared by listening on the Chumby (or a computer with good ad-blocking.) I think we better cherish every direct-stream link we find- kind of like olden days when you could hear music on AM radio.

3 (edited by Steevo 2012-09-05 08:08:15)

Re: Streaming Radio Fun!

Well, it's not 24x7, I don't know when live would be but I think that would be more than enough.  The Oakland station works on a computer, it plays well in VLC. 

http://www.surfmusic.de/media/kkgn-am.m3u

That stream plays great on Chumby. 
A stream linked from a German site!

Man, does the fidelity sound great on the Infocast 3.5. 
BTW, that must be live Glenn Beck, the show stops at 9 AM on that station, after that it's Dave Ramsey.

Re: Streaming Radio Fun!

I just happened upon another fairly good source of direct streams.

It looks like a pretty old personal site, but still gets updated. (Reminds me of that Radio-locator Site.) There were some dead inks. But there's also a lot of 'live' direct links in pls or m3u not listed by the stations' sites any more. I just found it today, and I'm getting about a 50% success rate of good links. The stand-alone links are listed as "Listen live with your pda/smart phone or stand alone player." It's at-

http://www.billsparks.org/
"Radio Look-up, Database of online radio streams."

Yeah, that's weird that Oakland stream came from Germany. Plus, it's got the *former* call letters of a Clear Channel station that flipped into KNEW. Yup, Clear Channel streaming from Germany!???

More Streaming Radio Fun!

Re: Streaming Radio Fun!

Publicradiofan.com is a great source for spoken stuff, though if you listen to Glen Beck, it's probably not your thing.

I've pulled a bunch of streaming radio IP addresses for the Chumby by using my laptop to search on Shoutcast, right-clicking on the resulting links, opening the tabs in a new window, and saving the .pls file.  Then I open the .pls in a text reader and enter the address into the Chumby. 

A useful hack I've mentioned elsewhere - if you find a stream with a long, complicated URL, you can shorten it with tinyurl.com, and it works just fine.

6 (edited by dannysland 2012-09-06 08:21:40)

Re: Streaming Radio Fun!

Here's a partial list of some great streams from around the world I have programmed into my Infocast 3.5.  I looked for many of these because I wanted to have soundtracks for when I play board games set in different countries.  I don't  always include the stream type on this list, but it's easy enough to experiment once you've got them entered. 

BBC - Radio 4
http://tinyurl.com/beeb-rfour

BBC - Radio 4 Extra
http://tinyurl.com/beeb-rfourx

BBC - World Service News
http://tinyurl.com/beeb-wsnews

WFMU
http://wfmu.org/wfmu.pls

WFMU's Rock & Soul Ichiban
http://wfmu.org/wfmu_rock.pls

PORTLAND - KMHD Jazz
http://kmhd.org/streams/kmhd.pls

PORTLAND - KZME (Only plays local bands, or bands which are coming to Portland soon.)
http://tinyurl.com/ff-kzme

OLDIES - 1930s -1940's - Abacus Radio
http://tinyurl.com/78-abac

OLDIES - 1920s - 1930s - Radio Dismuke (This is a terrific stream, though the sound quality is a bit low.)
http://74.208.71.58:8078/listen.pls

OLDIES - 1930's - WGBH's "Jazz Decades"
http://streams.wgbh.org:8010/listen.pls

OLDIES - 1920's - 1950s  - Venerable Radio
http://tinyurl.com/ven-rad

AMBIENT - SomaFM - Mission Control (I LOVE THIS ONE! Ambient music mixed with recordings of NASA missions. When there is a live mission, they often mix that in, otherwise they use historical recordings.)
http://somafm.com/missioncontrol.pls

DUBSTEP - Sub FM
(My brother DJs on this station.)
http://www.sub.fm/listen.pls

SPACE-AGE - SomaFM Illinois Street Lounge
http://somafm.com/illstreet.pls

Birdsong Radio
http://birdsongradio.com/listen.m3u

GERMANY - Heimatmelodie
http://81.27.170.171/listen.pls

HOLLAND - Efteling Radio (a children's radio station by day (Netherlands time); at night they play movie soundtracks mixed with animal noises and sounds from De Efteling amusement park.)
http://tinyurl.com/clas-eftl

SWISS - Alpenmelodie
http://tinyurl.com/alpenmelodie-pls

SWISS - Volksmusic Radio
http://www.volksmusiknet.ch/stream.m3u

ABIDIJAN - Africa No. 1 (M3U)
http://213.251.129.44:8000/a1.m3u

ATHENS - Radio Epirus (MP3)
http://174.36.237.66:9450

BUENOS AIRES - Radio Periko (PLS)
(An excellent station. Plays tangoes which sound to me like they're from the 78 RPM era.)
http://tinyurl.com/tangoperiko

BUENOS AIRES - LRA39 NAC Folklorica (PLS)
http://37.59.19.104:8158/listen.pls

CAIRO - Hona wa alaan (MP3)
http://78.159.120.112:8022

DELHI - Guyana NJ Desi Radio (PLS)
http://www.guyananj.com/radio96.pls

HONG KONG - Chinese Classical (MP3)
http://209.236.126.122:8202

HONOLULU - Hawaiian Rainbow (PLS)
http://tinyurl.com/haw-rai

ISTANBUL - Radyo Music (MP3)
http://174.36.237.66:9450

JERUSALEM - Kolhalev (MP3)
http://72.13.81.35:23820

LIMA - Radio Scala de Oro (MP3)
http://66.7.208.222:6024

MADRID - SKY.FM, Classical & Flamenco Guitar (MP3)
http://207.200.96.229:8016

MONTEGO BAY - Nautic Radio - Jamaican  (MP3)
http://83.137.145.141:14210

MOSCOW- Radio Caprice Russian Folk
http://79.120.77.11:9057

NAIROBI - Bongo Radio (MP3)
http://67.212.233.212:8000/zilipendwa.mp3

NEW ORLEANS - Radio Riel New Toulouse (PLS)
http://argon.slserver.com:8052/listen.pls
http://tinyurl.com/New-Toulouse

PARIS - Nostalgie Poètes (MP3)
(French oldies. Really over-the top, mostly male vocalists.)
http://mp3.live.tv-radio.com/2524/nosta … 114501.mp3
http://tinyurl.com/nostalgie-poetes

RIO DE JANEIRO - Bossa Nova Hits (PLS)
(Really good mix, though I wish they would take all versions of "Girl from Ipanama" out of rotation: that gets old.)
http://www.bossanovahits.com.br/radio-b … va128k.pls
http://tinyurl.com/bossa-nova-pls

ROME - Italian Graffiati - Musica anni 60 e 70 (MP3)
http://77.92.95.39:8500

TOKYO - Blue Heron Radio (M3U)
http://tinyurl.com/blueherad


AND TWO JUST FOR FUN:

The JAMmer - Decades of 'Just A Minute' (MP3)
http://31.45.22.8:8007
(This is a long-running BBC comedy panel show)

Welcome to Weirdsville - The Silly Side of Halloween (MP3) (LO-FI)
http://23.29.114.18:8502

7 (edited by Steevo 2015-07-26 12:42:51)

Re: Streaming Radio Fun!

OK, as I resurrect this zombie thread.

Art Bell is back and he is streaming on the internet.

I put some of the urls in chumby, but I am not getting any sound.

The info is here

http://darkmatterdigitalnetwork.com/

External AAC Player or Link
http://live.darkmatterdigitalnetwork.co … er.aac.m3u
and
http://live.darkmatterdigitalnetwork.com/darkmatter.aac

and
http://live.darkmatterdigitalnetwork.co … er.mp3.m3u
http://live.darkmatterdigitalnetwork.com/darkmatter.mp3

I tried several in mystreams.  None worked, yet, but
http://live.darkmatterdigitalnetwork.com/darkmatter.aac
sure works in chrome.

I put
http://live.darkmatterdigitalnetwork.com/darkmatter.mp3
in my streams. No sound. 
I tried
http://live.darkmatterdigitalnetwork.com/darkmatter.aac
No sound.

It says
Now Playing Dark Matter
Idle

So any ideas?

What am I doing wrong?

Re: Streaming Radio Fun!

I tracked down and verified these links a few days ago for another user who likes Art Bell.

Here's what you want for that show:

http://live.darkmatterdigitalnetwork.co … matter.mp3

Since My Streams also supports bit.ly shortcuts, I've made a simple link:

http://bit.ly/1Ms7DrM

If you're interested in paranormal stuff, there's also Darkness Radio:

http://ktlk-fm.akacast.akamaistream.net … et/ktlk-fm

or the bit.ly link:

http://bit.ly/1LJx21d

If you want archives for Art Bell's shows, try:

http://artbellstream.ddns.net:8000


Make sure you select "MP3" for the type.

9 (edited by Steevo 2015-07-26 15:40:24)

Re: Streaming Radio Fun!

Duane,
Thanks, that worked, Same as I posted, I missed the live at the beginning.
The URLs are not editable on that screen.
If the change is back a ways you have to delete it.  Wish there was a backspace without delete.  Oh well.
Thanks.

Re: Streaming Radio Fun!

Yeah, unfortunately that's a limitation of FlashLite.  There's no support for insertion points in input text fields.

When I provided that URL to the other user, she *also* missed the "live" the first time.