Internet radio streams

[simoncn]

(08-07-2014 16:55)Soli Wrote:  Your'e welcome. Most (all) channels are mp3 or aac anyways, so it should work with most renderers. It doesnt hurt to have the option (and maybe some autorefresh going on, or a dummy file that triggers refresh. plus a dummy file to make that station a favorite).
The point is I nobody want to manually make m3u files with presets, not if minimserver could dynamically parse xml lists from the various vendors. It would save a lot of time for us all, and I think it would be a great addition to minimserver.

For example for tunein, the xml/api located at http://opml.radiotime.com/Browse.ashx , then minimserver could just parse this just like Squeezebox Server does and present is as a folder for the controller points.

Actually I use MPD as a upnp renderer with Minimserver and the Lumin iPad app as a openhome control point. It works beautifully with no messing around, save for when I want to listen to internet radio. (I could of course make a playlist with the various internet radio stations and save that playlist to either the MPD native playlist or the built-in playlist manager of the Lumin app, but if internet radio was supported out the box inside Minimserver, then that would be fantastic news for everybody)

Thanks for the follow-up. I understand the benefits of doing this and I might attempt something like this in the future as an enhancement to MinimStreamer.