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Internet Radio Station Player
I'm new here and this is my first post. I've been looking for a good Internet Radio Station Player for a few years now. I'll share with you what I've found. After experimenting over several years this is what I've come up with. Now, I want to say that I haven't been working on this straight for 3 years or so (approximately) but from time to time. This is what I've been doing lately and in the past. Sometimes things do not go right the first time and you try it again and it works!
TuneScape - TuneScape. exe doesn't work half the time. An error shows up in a message box :
"Ice-Cast server error!!!
Network error: SSL handshake failed: Handshake failed: An unsupported function was requested"
And when I'm not having that error the program itself is constantly crashing.
Foobar2000 - Would not work out of the gate for me and I was not interested in getting an engineering degree to make it work. Some of these players can be unnecessarily complicated and very problematic.
StreamTuner2 (requires python 2.7) and I was not able to get it to run. The program was 216.74MB and Python 2.7 PyGTK 2.24.2 was 162.03MB and Python 2.7.13 was 57.80. The program and it's dependencies took up a whopping 436.57MB and it still doesn't work! It works better in the Linux version though.
QMPlay2 is a video and audio player which also has a radio browser module for listening to internet radio. But it too took to much time messing with it to get it to work (which I was never able to do). I got it on GitHub. In my opinion, it's not ready for prime time.
M3U Editor is more of a project than an actual internet radio browser or internet radio player. I don't want something that is going to take a great deal of time to figure out and run.
DsLav Media Player: Plays most media files such as .mp4, .mp3, .mov, .wav and Plays internet radio, video and IPTV streams. I'm still working on this one.
Screamer Radio is a portable program that doesn't require installation (but most portable programs write to the registry anyway). It works with some radio stations but not others and has limited choices.
RadioSure has worked with limited success. It hasn't been updated in ages but it has been the best player I have found. UPDATE: What I found is that when you click on a radio station it is in the programs database which is old (2012) and many of the stations have moved or changed their address or maybe they're out of business. So you wait and wait. That problem has been solved.
This is what they said on their website:
"RadioSure can still be used for years ! Since the RadioSure's server was shutdown (in march 2022), RadioSure no longer receives updates to its database of radio station (FYI, radiosure. com was hosted in Russia). For its users around the world this will become a problem in the medium term. Without a regularly updated list of radio streams the software will no longer offer new radios, and will no longer connect to radios as soon as their stream addresses change. As a simple user of this excellent software, , like others, started looking for a solution. And finally proposed one on GitHub : create a radio list converter, allowing RadioSure to use the Free one from the "Wikipedia" of radios, Radio-Browser. info, with more than 40000 radio stations in 200 countries!"
Installation : Replace ".rsd" file into "Stations" (sub-directory of RadioSure) by that of the latest. zip archive.
To make this more convenient, here is a tip + two scripts I made (hosted on GitHub) :
For automatic updates, you can activate a redirect in the Windows Hosts file (82.66.77.189 บาคาร่า เกมคาสิโนออนไลน์ ทางเข้าเดิมพัน bkkgaming). Easy and safe method : Extract this RB2RS_Hostsedit. zip file (antivirus report) and run the "rb2rs. bat" file. (The tool used is HostsEdit, free and open-source.) DNF, the update is weekly for the free version of RadioSure.
RB2RS-Database-Updater : Script to automate the update of RadioSure's radio station database. You can launch it with a ".bat", a desktop shortcut (small tutorial in PDF), or the task scheduler for daily updates.
RB2RS-Database-Converter : This Windows PowerShell Script converts the latest radio station database from Radio-Browser. info into a version compatible with RadioSure. (To test your ideas, to make another server,..)
The bottom line is: There are not a lot of good choices for Windows computers when it comes to Internet Radio Players. Linux on the hand has more choices in this matter and my favorite on is ShortWave and is the best Internet Radio Player that I have found but it doesn't have a Windows version unfortunately.
My new favorite Internet Radio Player for Windows is RadioSure, fur-sure.
Does anyone have any opinions in this matter? Let me know. JeffRedd. Cheers!