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When building an internet radio you will need to know the URL's of the MP3 streams of the radio stations. Last week I showed a method to find these streams with VTuner. There is however a far more easy method.
Method 1: fmstream.org
fmstream.org is a website that lists thousands of internet radio stations.
You can find the site here: https://fmstream.org/index.php?c=FT
On opening the website you can search stations by country, language or music style. But there is also a search function in which you can type the name of the station you are looking for.
I searched for NPO Radio as that is the name of all the Dutch public radio stations (NPO Radio 1, NPO Radio 2 ..... NPO Radio 5).
Next to the name of the station there are small squares that tell you what format the station can stream.
I am looking for MP3 so I clicked on the square mp3 96
At the bottom of the page there is an audio player.
And look carefully at that.
There is the link you need.
https://icecast.omroep.nl/radio1-sb-mp3
That's all. This is the link you need for building your internet radio.
Method 2: radio-browser
radio-browser is another side that lists thousands of internet radio stations.
You can find it here: https://www.radio-browser.info/
This site also gives the opportunity to search stations by country, language, tag or codec.
At the top-right side of the site there is a general search function.
So I searched for NPO Radio.
And almost immediately I got a list of the Dutch public internet radio stations.
Here are the details of NPO Radio 1.
Pressing the play button opens an audio player at the bottom of your screen and the station starts playing. But that was not what I was looking for.
Pressing the MP3 button got me the information I was looking for.
And there is the link I was looking for.
http://icecast.omroep.nl/radio1-bb-mp3
Concluding
Both fmstream.org and radio-browser are great sites to search for MP3 streams from radio stations. Both offer a search on country or music style, and a general search for a stations name.
Both sites immediately give you the URL needed for building an internet radio.
This is a lot easier then distilling the info from the VTuner's page sourcecode.
That's it for now.
Till next time
Have fun
Luc Volders
