bansheeinternet-radio
If I go a a URL like http://somafm.com/play/groovesalad130 in Firefox, the browser prompts me to load a *.pls file in Banshee. When loaded, this successfully plays the radio station in Banshee. How can I save this radio station permanently, so that I don't have to go the web page to trigger it?
I know about the "Add a new Internet Radio station" button and window, but I would like to be able to "save" or "bookmark" the currently playing station, instead of having to dig out the links myself.
I think this is not a quite useful answer for you, I'll rather show you or some nice person with time and ambition a way to go.
Because I didn't find an existing possibilty to get what you want (and I think there really is none), I believe the easiest way would be to write a tiny tiny extension. And this really doesn't seem very hard because the code exists already in other extensions.
For example Radio Station Fetcher: it just searches for radio stations on some websites and adds them to your radio "playlist". Therefore it uses a single dialog with two buttons (one for genre search and one for free text search) and that's all (you can try it yourself by installing banshee-extension-radiostationfetcher; you can find it then in the "Tools" menu).
I looked at the code and all one have to do is replace the code for searching stations on those website with code that reads your list of stations. All the other code can almost stay the same. I would do it, but I don't have time.
You can find the code of all extensions here. Live Radio has the same functionality of adding a list of stations to your radio "playlist" but I think it has a bigger codebase to look through.
I hope that will help you or some kind person who will do the work for you :P
Best Answer
1 - In Banshee click on Add A New Internet Station Or Playlist
2 - Then in the Stream URL field copy and paste: http://www.somafm.com/groovesalad.pls
3 - In the Station Name enter the station name
4 - In the Station Genre drop-down menu choose from the list
For some unknown reason you need to fill the Station Genre in before it will allow you to save the station.
5 - Click Save
I have just tested this and it works, even after I have restarted Banshee the radio station I added was there and was working perfectly.