ANNOUNCE: RadioNet plugin to enable playing stream from the radio.net service

[bpa]

ANNOUNCE: RadioNet plugin enables playing streams from the radio.net directory service

This plugin enables using radio.net directory of internet streams from Squeezebox UIs

It adds a "RadioNet" menu under the top-level Radio.

- Can search for a stream
- Browse via Genres
- List Top Stations

The plugin supports the various language / regions via Settings - LMS must be restarted for change in language/region to take effect.

The plugin does not play the stream - it passes the URL to LMS to be played by standard LMS mechanisms. This means if a stream fails to play, it is likely a problem with the station/URL.


Install by adding the repository URL to the "Additional repositories" at the bottom of the WebUI Settings/Plugins tab.

Repository URL
http://bpa-code.github.io/bpaplugins/radionet-repo.xml

Alternative but maybe not as reliable
http://downloads.sourceforge.net/pro...ionet-repo.xml


This is V1.0 and has only been lightly tested.

edit:

The plugin is now available from "3rd party plugin " in Settings/Plugins tab - no need for a repo to be added to Plugins tab

[castalla]

ANNOUNCE: RadioNet plugin enables playing streams from the radio.net directory service

This plugin enables using radio.net directory of internet streams from Squeezebox UIs

It adds a "RadioNet" menu under the top-level Radio.

- Can search for a stream
- Browse via Genres
- List Top Stations

The plugin supports the various language / regions via Settings - LMS must be restarted for change in language/region to take effect.

The plugin does not play the stream - it passes the URL to LMS to be played by standard LMS mechanisms. This means if a stream fails to play, it is likely a problem with the station/URL.

Install by adding the repository URL to the "Additional repositories" at the bottom of the WebUI Settings/Plugins tab.

Repository URL
http://bpa-code.github.io/bpaplugins...radio-repo.xml

Alternative but maybe not as reliable
http://downloads.sourceforge.net/pro...ionet-repo.xml


This is V1.0 and has only been lightly tested.

Thanks! Excellent.

[Is your first repo url correct? It points to iheart radio, I think]

[bpa]

Thanks! Excellent.

[Is your first repo url correct? It points to iheart radio, I think]

Mistake, I'll fix that. Too much cutting & pasting

[cpd73]

Plug-in seems to work great - thanks!

When opened, there's 3 items (Search, Top Stations, and Genres) that have the same image/icon. These images seems a bit redundant here, especially seeing as all 3 are the same. Perhaps it would be better to just not have them at this level?

[bpa]

Plug-in seems to work great - thanks!

There are lots of stations and I think some of them might be podcast. So if you notice quirks such as blank lines (e.g on Genre podcast)

Not sure why some station names which have accents don't get displayed properly as majority do.

When opened, there's 3 items (Search, Top Stations, and Genres) that have the same image/icon. These images seems a bit redundant here, especially seeing as all 3 are the same. Perhaps it would be better to just not have them at this level?

Format follows from a request BBCiPlayer users that menu items should have icons.
No comments on same behaviour on iHeart plugin and it has 6 identical icons on main menu.
I mainly use WebUI Classical - so don't see icons normally
A reason for having icon with these menus , is that in WebUI Classical at next level down the menu icon is user as a header to all the menus. The header icon serves as a reminder which plugin is being used as Tune-in, iHeart and radio.net look similar when displaying a list of stations

[rk19]

Excellent. Works well. Thank you

[bpa]

RadioNet V1.1 has one addition and one change.

* Podcast support
V1.0 had no support for podcast. Podcast genre was empty and
podcasts were omitted from search results.
Now podcast entries returned and up to 5 podcast episodes as playable
and at end of list, the podcast feed URL is set up to play
through LMS standard Podcast plugin.
On Touch/Radio podcast feed item is accessed with long press.

* Multiple playable URLs
For some stations there are multiple playable URLs often different bitrates and/or codecs
but sometimes just different URLs. Now all playable URls can be returned as playlist.
There is a Settings option to use just the first URL as returned by Radio.net as per V1.0.

[tfec]

RadioNet plugin enables playing streams from the radio.net directory service

[bpa]

It looks like changes are being rolled out to Radio.net website has meant plugin is temporarily broken for some languages (e.g. Radio.net is broken but Radio.de is OK).

When situation is a bit "clearer" (i.e. wait a bit to see if all sites updated) an update to the plugin will be made.

[bpa]

Radio.Net V1.1 was broken for a few weeks as a result web UI changes on radio.net that was rolling out across countries.

V1.2 should make it all work again as before.

As there seems to be some download problems with soyurceforge use the github repo URL below. The V1.2 ZIP is also hosted on github.
http://bpa-code.github.io/bpaplugins/radionet-repo.xml