Adding radio stations to Banshee from m3u files

Question

So I can get Banshee to play WGBH 995 Classical New England (http://www.wgbh.org/995/) by downloading the m3u file (http://streams.wgbh.org/streamb/classical.m3u) and telling Firefox to open the file in Banshee. But I want to save the radio station in my library.

The file classical.m3u has the following contents:

#EXTM3U
http://streams.wgbh.org:8006/

So I bring up the "Add new radio station" dialog box and put http://streams.wgbh.org:8006/ in for the "Stream URL:". When I double click the resulting entry in the Radio Station list, Banshee goes to "Contacting..." and then back to "Idle." What gives?

I'm using Banshee 2.2.1, and am behind a proxy server, but it works when it opens the m3u file, so it must be configured to use the proxy.

Answer 1

You can add any radio station you know the URL of by opening Banshee Radio context menu to select Add Station. This will open the following window:

Select the Genre, the station name and give in the full Stream URL,in your case:

http://streams.wgbh.org/streamb/classical.m3u

This will add the station with the name you chose to the radios available. Select the station, then Play. Adding the stream provider address:port may not work in your network environment.