Windows FM Radio support in v5.

[pkscout]

I'm trying to get internet radio working in my Docker container with the nextradio stuff, but the zip I found doesn't have the sh files, just the batch files. I saw a mention in this thread of something on the beta forum, but I don't seem to have access to that. Is there somewhere I can get the sh files? If push comes to shove I can probably figure out what the batch file is doing and write an sh file, but I'd like to not duplicate work that has already been done.

[mvallevand]

I never finished NextRadio for Linux given nobody wanted it before. Only SDR radio and Analog radio are working ok. Looking at what I did for Windows try this. This takes the last line when multiple lines are available.

Code:

mapfile -t radiotime < <(curl -s "http://opml.radiotime.com/Tune.ashx?id=$1&formats=mp3,aac")
ffmpeg -v panic -i "$radiotime" -acodec aac -ab 256000 -f mpegts -

Don't forget to chmod +x the file and the install script won't work in Dockers without python3

Martin

[pkscout]

I never finished NextRadio for Linux given nobody wanted it before.  Only SDR radio and Analog radio are working ok.  Looking at what I did for Windows try this.  This takes the last line when multiple lines are available.

Code:

mapfile -t radiotime < <(curl -s "http://opml.radiotime.com/Tune.ashx?id=$1&formats=mp3,aac")
ffmpeg -v panic -i "$radiotime" -acodec aac -ab 256000 -f mpegts -

Don't forget to chmod +x the file  and the install script won't work in Dockers without python3

Martin

Well, that was a little bit of an adventure.  I got the script to generate the Extras file on my Mac laptop with one small path change, then just did a search and replace to get the right path to the script on Docker.  That wasn't the exciting part though.  At first I had a few stations (including the one I really wanted) that wouldn't stream.  After doing some more digging, apparently some of the radio stations on RadioTime return a playlist instead of a stream URL.  I modified the script to account for that (as best I could), so it looks like this now:

Code:

mapfile -t radiotime < <(curl -s "http://opml.radiotime.com/Tune.ashx?id=$1&formats=mp3,aac")
mapfile -t playlist < <(curl -s "$radiotime")
playlisturl=${playlist[1]}
if [ "$playlisturl" = "" ];
then
    url=$radiotime
else
    if [[ $playlisturl != http* ]];
    then
        s="${playlisturl%%=*}"
        url="${playlisturl:$(( ${#s} + 1 ))}"
    else
        url = $playlisturl
    fi
fi
ffmpeg -v panic -i "$url" -acodec aac -ab 256000 -f mpegts -

It works, but if the playlist returns stray too much from what I saw (i.e. the line "[playlist]" followed by lines of urls or things that say FileX=URL), it won't work.  But it's enough for now.  We rarely actually listen to the radio, but there are a couple stations we like, so it's nice to have them hooked to NextPVR (and then into Kodi).  Plus it gave me a half day project to chew on.

[mvallevand]

Do you have the s#### ID for that channel?

Martin

[pkscout]

Do you have the s#### ID for that channel?

Martin

The one that was definitely giving me an issue was S30999 (it's 102.9 WMGK which does "classic" rock that is from the 80's - which frankly hurts me a little that they call it classic rock).  I think there might have been one or maybe two others that weren't streaming during testing, but I can't remember which ones, and I didn't feel like going through every station again.

[mvallevand]

Ok yes the streamtheworld URL's are funny that way because they have those big CDN lists. I do have another function that resolves playlist but it gets complicated and sub only support m3u8 playlists.

Martin