I’m a huge fan of some radios which I’ve been listening to in my life. For example, while driving in Italy I usually listen to virginradio, while being in Sydney I used to listen to tripleM, both of which usually air good rock music without too much DJs and ads.
YES! I want to listen to music, not ads or people speaking!

Thankfully most radio stations nowadays also spot an internet streaming. Nightmarefully usually it’s a flash or WMP (Windows Media Player) streaming. Being a MacOSX user (mostly) or a Linux user (always – mostly: so basically the time I’m not on MacOSX) I found both formats bad. The first because it works once and not the other time, the second because while more or less working with Quicktime (+ some weird nasty plugin [flip4Mac])

ATTEMPTED SOLUTION

What I usually do is easy – with example:

  1. Go to the webpage of the radio – http://www.triplem.com.au/sydney
  2. Find the ‘listen online’ button
    Listen Online Example for TripleM

    Listen Online Example for TripleM

  3. Open up the source code for the page that the ‘listen online’ opens up (usually they use pop-ups windows for such streamings) when there’s some kind of streaming going on
  4. Search for something like:
    asx
    Or alternatively if you don’t find any entry:
    embed
  5. If in the step before you found the asx copy all the link, following our example:

    ...
id="WMPlayer"
name="WMPlayer"
src="http://resources.triplem.com.au/listenfeed/2mmmlivestream.asx"
type="video/quicktime"
...

    let’s copy: http://resources.triplem.com.au/listenfeed/2mmmlivestream.asx

    If instead in the step before we found the embed keyword let’s look around it to find something like:

    ...
<EMBED type="application/x-mplayer2" pluginspage="http://www.microsoft.com/Windows/MediaPlayer/"
SRC="http://151.1.245.1/20" name="nnrVideoPlayer"
autostart="1" width="400" height="70" showcontrols="1">
</EMBED>
...

    around the code there should be the src tag, such as in the example. Let’s therefore copy: http://151.1.245.1/20

  6. Open your favorite video/audio player, not iTunes, such as VLC and search for something called like ‘Open Network’. In our example, using VLC it’s: File->Open Network… or even faster the shortcut ⌘N and paste what you just copied:

    The right place to paste the information copied

    The right place to paste the information copied

  7. Press OK and after some buffering time you should be listening to your favorite radio! And without any ads or needing to keep your browser or anything!

This is clearly and hack solution which may work for you or not. If you have problems with your radio streaming and the above solution don’t hesitate to contact me and I’ll look into it (whenever I’ll find some time).

Hope it helped!

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