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Time really flies !! I could not believe my eyes when I saw that my stories on building an internet radio dated from 2018 !!! At that time I build an internet radio with a Raspberry Pi Zero. It was a 4 part story.
You can read the stories that start with what hard and software you need and building a single station internet radio, to a headless (no display or keyboard) stand alone internet radio, with only some buttons that allow to choose the desired radio stations. I'll give you the link to the last part in which you can find links to the previous parts:
https://lucstechblog.blogspot.com/2018/10/raspberry-pi-internet-radio-part-3.html
Well this suddenly became current again.
Like a lot of people we have TV, internet and (landline) telephone from one company. My girlfriend enjoys listening to a certain classic radio station using our stereo set. However that radio station suddenly decided that it would only broadcast through the internet instead of the cable. And our stereo set does not have internet radio on board.
So time to build an internet radio for our living room.
There was only a slight problem. In part 2B in the series I described how you easily can find the URL's for the MP3 streams with VTuner. And that did not work anymore. Well things change in 7 year ..........
The new VTuner method.
First step is to point your browser to http://www.vtuner.com/
So far so good.
I was looking especially for a station with the name Classic FM, and (like said above) it is an internet only station. So I filled that name in, in the search box. Obviously you may want to look for another radio station. To get that stream just follow the steps I'll show you here.
And I got a complete list of radio stations with the name Classic FM.
There was one with the indication Internet Only and that was the one I needed.
Press the green play button in front of the station name.
A new screen opens with an audio player at the bottom.
Press the play button.
The player plays the realtime radio stream from that station.
My web browser is Firefox and I do not use Windows but my computer runs Linux (Kubuntu). So the next steps might be different on your system. But they are not difficult to follow.
Search in your browser menu for the option to look at the page source. In Firefox it is in the Hamburger menu on at the top-right side of the browser screen under the More tools option. You can also find it by pressing the right-side mouse button.
Use the search function in your browser to look for "MP3"
And there it is.
http://classicfm.ice.infomaniak.ch/classic-fm.mp3
Select only this part and you got the link you need for your internet radio !!!
This is all a bit tedious. Fortunately I found an easier method to get the link. That's for next weeks story.
Till then,
have fun
Luc Volders
