Web radio playback does not work

[Username]

Hello,
I just installed the 0.3 release of rune audio. Everything works quite well. I especially like the web interface.
However, I encounter one problem: The web radio playback doesn't work.
MP3s from the library play nicely, but when I try to play a radio station, the play time counter does not change and I don't hear anything...
For example, I tried the german station WDR 5 using the link http://www.wdr.de/wdrlive/media/mp3/wdr5.m3u . Could someone please try this?
Am I missing some settings?
Best,
User

[cmh714]

I believe the radio URI format is like this:

http://208.85.242.52:8162

[Username]

It seems that rune audio does not support *.m3u files directly. Having used Volumio before, I expected that it would work the same way (You have to copy the m3u-files into a certain directory.).
The solution is to open the m3u-file in a text editor and to copy the link that is contained in the file into the url-field of the "add new"-dialog of the webradio menu. It would be helpful to tell the user what kind of url is expected.
Now everything works!

[Dezo]

I copied m3u files from Volumio and now i am using the same files with Rune.

[imsai]

Apparently RuneAudio does not accept a m3u or pls link copied directly from most webradio lists. I've run into the same issue with other media centres. Looks like most of these links from sites are actually a container for the actual link.

The following is just ONE way to do this, and will show how some links are formed, and why they don't work when you simply copy and paste them.

Right click on a webradio link (I used the m3u link) such as the one shown for PigPen Radio listed on https://www.internet-radio.com/stations/funk/, and select "inspect".

The window appears on the right, and you will notice that the link is actually a long one, and somewhere in the middle is the actual direct link to the webradio station. In this case you're looking for http://uk6.internet-radio.com:8213/listen.pls

Anyway, you really only want the part that is http://uk6.internet-radio.com:8213 without the last part.
This link placed into your RuneAudio will work just fine.

You can right click on the element that you're inspecting, and select copy and then select copy element, and paste this into a simple text editor like Notepad, then copy paste the link out of the middle of it.

Imsai