Internet Radio (2 Viewers)

[Anonymous]

For asx streams I'm specifying the banner property in the XML file, but it doesn't resize at all, you just see a small part of it at the bottom and some visualisation on top.
Personally, I'd like to disable the visualisation and show the logo completely, resized to fit that small window.
Any suggestions ?

It looks like this :

 

[Anonymous]

Check out the new CVS builds, they have a great integration with the Radio streams and their logos!

 

[Gordonx42]

Is there a way to get shoutcast title streaming to work? Instead of streaming the title of the song that is currently playing, the port number used is statically displayed.

does anyone have this working? it would be nice to have mp display the song title.

 

[Anonymous]

Was just wondering how can we get popular radio stations like Triple m (http://www.mmmelb.com.au/) and other on the FM band like 96.6 TFM I know they broadcast on the net but can't figure out how to get them into media portal (the best HTPC system ever)!!

 

[CodeMonkey]

Was just wondering how can we get popular radio stations like Triple m (http://www.mmmelb.com.au/) and other on the FM band like 96.6 TFM I know they broadcast on the net but can't figure out how to get them into media portal (the best HTPC system ever)!!

From the triple M streaming FAQ ...

Triple M's online streaming is provided in its own Internet Explorer popup window. You wont be able to listen to Triple M in media players such as Winamp or a Windows Media Player direct link.

They are doing that so they can show you ads as part of their popup window. I tried it, and it even complained because I had a popup blocker running and wouldn't play the stream. It uses media player also, and as far as I know MP will only stream MP3 (shoutcast) stations.

 

[angel_07030]

It would be nice if I could integrate my XM Online account with MP. I can use Windows Media Player to access my XM Online account. Is there a way to access this feature via MP? Would be nice to have one smooth interface to not only watch live TV and the rest, but also listen to my XM. :lol: This possible?

 

[pinobot]

Was just wondering how can we get popular radio stations like Triple m (http://www.mmmelb.com.au/) and other on the FM band like 96.6 TFM I know they broadcast on the net but can't figure out how to get them into media portal (the best HTPC system ever)!!

Ref1=http://66.70.119.243:81/3mmm?MSWMExt=.asf

Ref2=http://216.109.158.163:81/3mmm?MSWMExt=.asf

 

[johnmb]

........ Instead of streaming the title of the song that is currently playing, the port number used is statically displayed.

does anyone have this working? it would be nice to have mp display the song title.

Anyone have any ideas on this? Song title (or even station name...) would be good......

 

[strider]

I'm having trouble getting MP to recognize m3u playlists.

(See http://radio.3fl.net/ for a list) -- not sure if you can access this outside Aust/PIPE/WAIX)

I can get it going in Winamp.. .but not MP...

I get an error from WMP stating it doesn't recognise the format?!

Any ideas?!

 

[Spagbol]

........ Instead of streaming the title of the song that is currently playing, the port number used is statically displayed.

does anyone have this working? it would be nice to have mp display the song title.

Anyone have any ideas on this? Song title (or even station name...) would be good......

It's definitely possible.
Here's a quick botch-up proggy to show it's possible to grab various data from the stream. Unfortunately, I only dabble in VB6 but anyone is welcome to the (little commented and badly formatted!) source if you want to try and port any of it to C# and try make a patch for the label that currently only shows the port.

It parses the IP address and port number from the File1 key of a .pls file. This would not need to be done by MeriaPortal as it holds the data in the Radio database. It has elementary error checking in that it won't try and connect if either the IP or port is missing (I had some .pls files from the Shoutcast plugin that had missing data), or if the port section of the key contains non-numerical characters (e.g. File1=http://64.236.34.67:80/stream/1001)

I haven't put code in to actually play the stream, although it shouldn't be too tricky, but it will connect to the stream and show you the Station ID, track title and bit rate transmitting at that moment.

Here's a couple of interesting article on the Shoutcast protocol:
http://forums.radiotoolbox.com/viewtopic.php?t=74
http://www.smackfu.com/stuff/programming/shoutcast.html

P.S. New to MediaPortal (ace effort!) and this community so apologies if live links aren't allowed or I've broken any rules!