Ubuntu – Can Banshee play internet radio from .pls files

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I've recently become interested in Internet Radio, and have found a few stations that I would like to add in Banshee.

Examples are the stations shown at http://www.chronixradio.com/ – but the only one I can add in Banshee is the 'Metal Masters' one. I tried getting the URLs for all of them from 'Listen Now' -> one of the radios -> 'MP3 Streams' -> '128k Cable/DSL', but for some reason the only one that Banshee can figure out is the Metal Masters one.

I suspect that it may be because the other stations have 'mirrors' in the .pls files. Is Banshee incapable of handling that? Or is the problem something else?

Please help – it seems a lot of Internet Radio Stations use .pls files, and I would be surprised to learn that Banshee can't handle them.

Best Answer

I'm using Banshee 2.2.0.

The only way i find to save a station is:

  1. Go to Media>Open Location from the menu or press Ctrl+L
  2. Select the .pls file you want to import and click 'Open'
  3. Ctrl+C on location of .pls file (with the file://....)
  4. Click on Radio and Add Station
  5. On URL location, Ctrl+V the location of .pls file.
  6. Station save :)
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