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!

A. you could install a dedicated antenna with tuner built inside and listen to radio. Might as well get a full on HB, CB scanner. But that is going to far and too backwards.

B. A majority of Android phones have built in Radio Antenna but is not enabled. Some phones by default have the FM disabled. The idea was many phones was to be usable during power-outtage. On my Android phone I have NextRadio.

NextRadio app was suppose to be Youtube, but failed when they tried to charge money. However the app allows you to use your built in FM antenna in your phone.

You can use scrcpy and boot your phone on your Windows 10 computer and just run the radio from there. However your phone ( It could be even most outdated phones ) must have enabled FM, and a corresponding app that can use the antenna built in. Newer phones

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This is a longshot and I want to try this some time just for fun.

Openradio is android app you can listen to various Radio-Stations across the globe. Some are internet pre-recordings while others are actually radio stations local but online only.

You can install "Linux Subsystem" and bypass the amazon crap and manually install the Open Radio application. Then run the Open Radio and ( because you have internet ) listen to music as if you are using android.

But the same would literally work with Installing android into Virtual Machine as long as internet is usable.

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There are also some programs like Winamp that is able to run playlists made by people.

I understand that there are different ways to do this. They used make radios that fit into the computer slots on computer towers but I don't want to use a radio tuner. I want to find internet radio stations because I can hear any station from anywhere in the world, clearly, which is not possible with a normal radio. With a good Internet Radio Browser or Internet Radio Player I can get 40000 radio stations in 200 countries which is better than any radio can do. I'm just interested in the players themselves. Thanks.

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Most FM radio stations allow you to listen online on their websites. I too prefer listening online because some FM stations have poor reception but are crystal clear on the internet.

TairikuOkami said:

RadioSure was my favorite, but when it died I moved to Audials Radio on PC and Android.

The reason it seemed to die was because the database was from 12 years ago (2012) and now further work was done on it. A new person has updated the database but you have to install it. It really is not hard. The database file has an .rsd file extension and the new one looks like this "stations-2024-02-29. rsd" Do a file search for that "*.rsd" and find that directory and just place it in that folder and delete the old one. That is what I did. RadioSure has instruction on their website. It worked well for me. Let me know if this works for you or maybe your no longer interested and are happy with Audials Radio. Cheers!

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Berton said:

Have you checked SiriusXM.com Radio?

No. I really didn't want to pay for it because I'm on a budget and don't listen to music all the time. And I noticed that it's for car and smartphone use only, no computers. I do appreciate the suggestion though.