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I've recently become interested in Internet Radio, and have found a few stations that I would like to add in Banshee.

Examples are the stations shown at http://www.chronixradio.com/ - but the only one I can add in Banshee is the 'Metal Masters' one. I tried getting the URLs for all of them from 'Listen Now' -> one of the radios -> 'MP3 Streams' -> '128k Cable/DSL', but for some reason the only one that Banshee can figure out is the Metal Masters one.

I suspect that it may be because the other stations have 'mirrors' in the .pls files. Is Banshee incapable of handling that? Or is the problem something else?

Please help - it seems a lot of Internet Radio Stations use .pls files, and I would be surprised to learn that Banshee can't handle them.

Mads Peter Rommedahl
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I'm using Banshee 2.2.0.

The only way i find to save a station is:

  1. Go to Media>Open Location from the menu or press Ctrl+L
  2. Select the .pls file you want to import and click 'Open'
  3. Ctrl+C on location of .pls file (with the file://....)
  4. Click on Radio and Add Station
  5. On URL location, Ctrl+V the location of .pls file.
  6. Station save :)
Kris Harper
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Luigi
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From banshee as of version 1.2: 

Playlist Importing (.pls, .m3u)
Import your carefully created .m3u and .pls playlists.

So yes it can import .pls and mirrors are a normal part of a pls file.

Rinzwind
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I also run Banshee (v 2.0.0) and im able to add individual URL's of internet radio's and play them but when I import a .pls playlist containing mirrors of streaming servers, it doesn't work.

The only way I have managed to play the radio stations from the playlist by opening the playlist as a location.

  • Go to Media → Open Location from the menu or press Ctrl + L
  • Select the .pls file you want to import and click Open

The station starts to play automatically but I haven't been able to save the playlist or even view from which server its currently streaming from. Oh I miss Amarok 1.4. It used to do this in its sleep.

Octavian Helm
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Colin
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YES, Banshee can play internet radio from .pls files !

Maybe this will work for you as it just worked for me.

Open the *.pls file with a text editor and select one of the URL's written there. 

<p>In my case, I downloaded a file called "list.pls" from sky.fm; I opened it with gedit and just copied in Banshee the first of sixteen URL's written there  (write the URL in "Stream URL" in "Add new radio station").</p>

It is working OK since I added it; I just double click the added radio station every time I want to listen the selected Internet radio station.

:O)

JuanManuel
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