Recently I detect the InternetRadio - chain, nice implementation.
The list of available streams are 9.
How can I add a internet-webstream, I like, to this list?
The list of stations (presets) uses a hardcoded list if there is no config. You can manually add a config file in json format: /zynthian/zynthian-my-data/presets/inet_radio/presets.json This has the format:
{
"Music": [
["http://stream.radiotime.com/listen.m3u?streamId=10555650", 0, "FIP", "auto", ""],
["http://icecast.radiofrance.fr/fipgroove-hifi.aac", 0, "FIP Groove", "aac", ""],
["http://direct.fipradio.fr/live/fip-webradio4.mp3", 0, "FIP Radio 4", "auto", ""],
["http://jazzblues.ice.infomaniak.ch/jazzblues-high.mp3", 0, "Jazz Blues", "auto", ""],
["http://relax.stream.publicradio.org/relax.mp3", 0, "Relax", "auto", ""],
["http://icy.unitedradio.it/VirginRock70.mp3", 0, "Virgin Rock 70's", "auto", ""],
["https://peacefulpiano.stream.publicradio.org/peacefulpiano.aac", 0, "Peaceful Piano", "aac", ""],
["https://chambermusic.stream.publicradio.org/chambermusic.aac", 0, "Chamber Music", "aac", ""],
["http://sc3.radiocaroline.net:8030/listen.m3u", 0, "Radio Caroline", "auto", ""]
],
"Speech": [
["http://direct.franceculture.fr/ts/franceculture-midfi.mp3", 0, "France Culture", "auto", ""],
["http://wsdownload.bbc.co.uk/worldservice/meta/live/shoutcast/mp3/eieuk.pls", 0, "BBC Radio World Service (English)", "auto", ""]
]
}
The first parent node is the bank, i.e. “Music” and “Speech” in this example.
Each entry below this is a station with parameters:
- URL of stream or playlist
- 0 - not used
- Preset / station friendly / display name
- CODEC type - can use usually use “auto”
It would be good to add a method of editing this from the UI or at least from webconf.
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WOW, it works! After fiddling around with the json file and rights management on another Pi and an overseen square bracket, the config is accepted. Nice feature! Thank you!
This is my favourite stream: http://www.ebm-radio.org:7000/;537270416216132stream.nsv
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Oh 2 things I’ve discovered here
the webradio player and the ebm Channel. There was an old Alien Sex Friends track play ing when I gave it a try
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Thanks, @riban
Try to add following station to the presets.json file
[“https://stream.laut.fm/apostrophe.m3u”, 0, “apostrophe”, “auto”, “”]
and put the file “presets.json” in the place
/zynthian/zynthian-my-data/presets/inet_radio/
{
"Music": [
["http://stream.radiotime.com/listen.m3u?streamId=10555650", 0, "FIP", "auto", ""],
["http://icecast.radiofrance.fr/fipgroove-hifi.aac", 0, "FIP Groove", "aac", ""],
["http://direct.fipradio.fr/live/fip-webradio4.mp3", 0, "FIP Radio 4", "auto", ""],
["http://jazzblues.ice.infomaniak.ch/jazzblues-high.mp3", 0, "Jazz Blues", "auto", ""],
["http://relax.stream.publicradio.org/relax.mp3", 0, "Relax", "auto", ""],
["http://icy.unitedradio.it/VirginRock70.mp3", 0, "Virgin Rock 70's", "auto", ""],
["https://peacefulpiano.stream.publicradio.org/peacefulpiano.aac", 0, "Peaceful Piano", "aac", ""],
["https://chambermusic.stream.publicradio.org/chambermusic.aac", 0, "Chamber Music", "aac", ""],
["http://sc3.radiocaroline.net:8030/listen.m3u", 0, "Radio Caroline", "auto", ""]
["https://stream.laut.fm/apostrophe.m3u", 0, "apostrophe", "auto", ""]
],
"Speech": [
["http://direct.franceculture.fr/ts/franceculture-midfi.mp3", 0, "France Culture", "auto", ""],
["http://wsdownload.bbc.co.uk/worldservice/meta/live/shoutcast/mp3/eieuk.pls", 0, "BBC Radio World Service (English)", "auto", ""]
]
}
rebooted, but the list looks the same as without the modified “presets.json”.
The mentioned stream link does not work in an ordinary web browser on PC or other kind of computer or mobile device, since it stores a m3u playlist file only. The stream must immediately open a browser based player in a tab to play directly in browser. Otherwise it will not work on zynthian.
m3u playlists are supported by the player used by Zynthian, e.g. the Radio Caroline feed is presented as a m3u playlists. It might depend on the playlist content, e.g. it may only take the first stream in the list.
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It seems, that the new “presets,json” is not recalled.
My edited presets.json file has 10 entry, but the preset menu shows only 9 entries.
I changed the order, but no luck.
@riban , do you have a working “presets.json”, which has different entries as the hardcoded list, to try if something is wrong with the path/ rights.
Maybe a late answer, but as I just fiddled with the same problem and used this entry as reference:
I copied the examples from above and had the same problem.
After checking the file by hand, I found that a trailing comma seemed to miss in my case.
I added it, saved and found my entries in the UI.
So: double check the format.
This could indeed be made easier and more fault-tolerant by at least adding a method for editing in webconf as already mentioned by @riban.
Just my 2 cents:
Personally I’d prefer to have a possibility to just add my presets to the existing hard coded stations (instead of overwriting) or better have a possibility to edit these stations as well.
I’d like to share this /zynthian/zynthian-my-data/presets/inet_radio/presets.json
presets.json (5.3 KB)
It lists all streams of the DASDING and of SomaFM.
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Super, vielen Dank, many thanks, works well !
This /zynthian/zynthian-my-data/presets/inet_radio/presets.json
presets.json (5.7 KB)
contains all of above plus an additional entry from Ibiza in Music 
and the abf bouquet from Paris.
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We are going to start requiring a tool to handle all the stations…
A classic success problem.
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@fussl Great. I did not get the “apostrophe”- channel, stream unavailable, with the desktop it works. Any thoughts?
Sometimes a stream does not start immediately, because the server has no free connection, sometimes this has other reasons.
The solution:
Adjust wait for stream to a higher value (15) and twist stream so a new connect is tried.
This makes streams work, sometimes needs more than one try with overcrowded stream servers.
Sometimes, a stream has dropouts, which is often true for abf.radio. This is an uplink problem at the station site and unsolvable from our side.
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Should check out https://www.radio-browser.info/
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This /zynthian/zynthian-my-data/presets/inet_radio/presets.json
presets.json (9.5 KB)
contains the recent default stations plus the addons from above.
Unfortunately, when uploading a new file, the default station entries are lost, so I combined this one.
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Here a bit more recent presets list, now easy to upload via Webconf->System->File Browser ->my-data->presets->inet_radio
There are new added Synthesizers Greatest Radio, Cafe d M, and some popular stations from Germany, some broken links repaired.
Unfortunately, the new Vangelis Internet-Radio seems to be broken, so use the Oram radio instead.
presets.json (9.8 KB)
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There is no ticket in the issue tracker for this. I am aware because of the comments against a recent git commit. it may help if someone raises a ticket.
The problem is that mplayer fails to play aac streams. It takes a long time to connect / cache then fails, unable to seek backwards in stream.
I am considering moving to vlc as the player which works quite well with all the streams and media I have tested so far. (It can’t be run as root which adds a small complexity but I have found a work-around.) It will take me a little time to refactor the engine to use vlc…
Just copying the Oram inet_radio.py over the Vangelis inet_radio.py restores functionality. The only difference: The stream information is no longer shown with green text on the black area, but everything else just works. Some streams/servers need the setting wait for stream set to 14 or 15 and restarted, that’s all, then every stream works.