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Online radio with Foobar ?

Hi,
how can I listen to online radio, Grooveshark, and etc,  with Foobar ?

Online radio with Foobar ?

Reply #1
Cannot remember now if the component that is needed is within the foobar core or not, what I do is set up a playlist "streaming", then go to the stations website, copy the address for the stream  (usually mp3, but other formats are supported, like the various ones that paradise radio uses)and paste the address in:  File  - add location.
Works for me.

Online radio with Foobar ?

Reply #2
Cannot remember now if the component that is needed is within the foobar core or not, what I do is set up a playlist "streaming", then go to the stations website, copy the address for the stream  (usually mp3, but other formats are supported, like the various ones that paradise radio uses)and paste the address in:  File  - add location.
Works for me.


Sorry, but I´m a noob in these settings: you mean, creating a playlist called "streaming" ?  Am I going to listen the radio, real time ?

Online radio with Foobar ?

Reply #3
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Sorry, but I´m a noob in these settings: you mean, creating a playlist called "streaming" ? Am I going to listen the radio, real time


Yes. On your tabs go View - Playlist Manager - right click the pop up panel, click new and create a playlist called whatever you like, streaming, radio, net...whatever.
Open  your browser, go to the website of your station, find the streaming link and open it, copy the adress and paste the adress into your playlist.
Means, go back to foobar, open file tab - open add locations and in the small pop up panel copy the adress oft he stream.
Then open the playlist, the stream should show up and click it to open it.

I cannot remember if you have to install the playlist tool dll. or not. Too long since... my component folder just groans...

foobar takes time to learn. So many options...

Online radio with Foobar ?

Reply #4
Thank you, kraut !

I have donne what you said, but when I paste the link  into the "add location" pop up, it doesn´t appear  in the playlist.  I´ve tried this with some radios, so as you have said, it must be missing some dll in Foobar.  I´m gonna look into this.

Online radio with Foobar ?

Reply #5
AFAIK, not all internet radios allow you to play them in your own media player. Those that do usually provide a link to their stream in a form of a playlist file, e.g. super-radio.pls. For example, di.fm has all its playlists in the Listen Now! menu. You don't have to create anything manually. You just open that playlist file in the player. In a different case the station would provide a streaming link, kraut has already covered this.

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Reply #6
help mi please ( sorry for my poor English ).
i can't listen online radio in foobar -> when i play the station music go and after 1-2 sec. stops.
btw the tagger also stop working.      i tray http://www.di.fm/ and they also don't work for me.

Online radio with Foobar ?

Reply #7
@kaloian79
I tested  two radio channels on your mentioned website http://www.di.fm/ and both work. I just select "open with foobar2000".

Online radio with Foobar ?

Reply #8
di.fm and lots of other online radio works fine on my fb v1.1.7. Your problem looks more like an internet connection problem (not enough quality bandwidth, some kind of filters imposed by isp).

Online radio with Foobar ?

Reply #9
Create a Radio Playlist on Foobar

1- Click View/PlaylistManager
2- Right-Click on playlist manager or go CTRL+N
3- Click F2 to rename
4- Now to build a series of stations >>  see 5-
5- Find radio station url on sites below or similar:
[download the m3u or pls playlist; open in a text editor and find url]
(sometimes radio stations website give their URL
other times it is harder to find)
Go to >> http://www.shoutcast.com/internet-radio
http://www.listenlive.eu/
http://www.australianliveradio.com/
6- It will look like this for example: http://91.194.90.147:8036/
7-In Foobar go CTRL+U and add url
8- Repeat with as many urls as you want
9- CTRL+S to save playlist


for example treat yourself to a Classical Radio Station in flac http://radio.cesnet.cz:8000/cro-d-dur.flac
yea yer roight !

Online radio with Foobar ?

Reply #10
Create a Radio Playlist on Foobar

1- Click View/PlaylistManager
2- Right-Click on playlist manager or go CTRL+N
3- Click F2 to rename
4- Now to build a series of stations >>  see 5-
5- Find radio station url on sites below or similar:
[download the m3u or pls playlist; open in a text editor and find url]
(sometimes radio stations website give their URL
other times it is harder to find)
Go to >> http://www.shoutcast.com/internet-radio
http://www.listenlive.eu/
http://www.australianliveradio.com/
6- It will look like this for example: http://91.194.90.147:8036/
7-In Foobar go CTRL+U and add url
8- Repeat with as many urls as you want
9- CTRL+S to save playlist


for example treat yourself to a Classical Radio Station in flac http://radio.cesnet.cz:8000/cro-d-dur.flac



  This reply seems to quote whether I asked for it or not.
I have used the procedure but repeatedly get an unrecognized file type when the
url link-- in my case ancientfm.radio.net is present in the playlist window.

  F2 doesn't want to work at all




Online radio with Foobar ?

Reply #11
This reply seems to quote whether I asked for it or not.
I have used the procedure but repeatedly get an unrecognized file type when the
url link-- in my case ancientfm.radio.net is present in the playlist window.

F2 doesn't want to work at all

If F2 does nothing, just right-click the playlist name (default is "Untitled") and select "Rename..."

ancientfm.radio.net is just the webpage - to add the stream to fb2k, use this link:
http://simplexstream.com:8058/

It doesn't appear on the page - you have to open the page source in your browser (Ctrl+U) and search through it for the stream url. I just searched "MP3" and the second instance was near the desired url:
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...[{"streamUrl":"http://simplexstream.com:8058/","loadbalanced":false,"metaDataAvailable":true,"playingMode":"STEREO","metaDataUrl":"http://simplexstream.com:8058/","type":"STREAM","sampleRate":44100,"streamContentFormat":"MP3",...
Some cats, if they eat a certain type of nut...

Online radio with Foobar ?

Reply #12
thanx newstar for explaining difference between radio website url and station url;  a very different place indeed

ion  :

CTRL+U  >>  CTRL+V  >> paste:  http://simplexstream.com:8058/ >> right-click to make name appear >> CTRL+S to save playlist


looks thus 


PS  and thanx great station  ...    added it to mine ...    you might also enjoy this one here [altho baroque not renaissance]  Audiophile Baroque [320k]  url = http://50.7.173.162:2199/tunein/baroque.pls
yea yer roight !

Online radio with Foobar ?

Reply #13
Thank you so much Shantiq... I registered to say thank you so much...