I spent an obsessive journey wanting to add radio stations to my radiotray-ng
. It took days.
It took days because nobody is giving anything away, not even streams. Radio stations already in VLC or Rhythmbox
won't be ported to radiotray-ng
. Also radiotray-ng
prefers the archaic .pls
format (and .m3u
).
If the mods leave this post up, I did find a legal open source site:
![](https://discuss.getsol.us/assets/files/2024-05-01/1714589937-814514-rad1.png)
I typed 'funk' into their search bar and picked a German funk station:
![](https://discuss.getsol.us/assets/files/2024-05-01/1714590214-468045-rad2.png)
clicked on the title it took me to the info page:
![](https://discuss.getsol.us/assets/files/2024-05-01/1714590254-609230-rad3.png)
I wanted the station Name and URL to paste into radiotray-ng's Bookmarks Editor where I pulled down ADD a station:
![](https://discuss.getsol.us/assets/files/2024-05-01/1714590331-240043-rad4.png)
You heard that right. Much old info for radiotray-ng
has one appending the bookmarks.conf
or bookmarks.json
. You don't need to do that anymore. Use the GUI editor shown above.
saved and added:
![](https://discuss.getsol.us/assets/files/2024-05-01/1714590454-409231-rad5.png)
save bookmarks editor (in gui). repopulate bookmarks editor (in gui). and you see it in the pulldown station
list:
![](https://discuss.getsol.us/assets/files/2024-05-01/1714590642-834858-radrad.png)
When you play a station you get a desktop notification to confirm:
![](https://discuss.getsol.us/assets/files/2024-05-01/1714590680-717208-rad6.png)
I'm Funking out as you can see.
I just added a couple stations, I'm not greedy. But I did bookmark this open source resource.
more from the site owner, who is funded from opencollective:
![](https://discuss.getsol.us/assets/files/2024-05-01/1714590907-242532-rad8.png)