The latest version of TuneIn Radio Pro now supports custom URLs allowing you to add stations which are restricted from TuneIn (if you have the stream URL) or stations which don’t have an Android app. Since TuneIn Radio Pro can also record, this means you can now easily record from custom URLs.
Adding Custom URLs
While it can be done directly from the Android app, it can also be done by logging in to your account from the TuneIn website and adding your stream URL there.
Adding iHeartRadio URLs (Method May Stop Working Someday)
If you want to record a station which is only listed on iHeartRadio, you can bypass the restriction by adding it as a custom URL in TuneIn. Open the station’s stream on the iHeartRadio website from your computer. In the address bar there will be 4 numbers at the end, copy those. For example the address for Hot 107.9 is http://www.iheart.com/live/HOT-1079-1545 where “1545” is what we want. Now enter http://www.iheart.com/a/live/station/1545 in your address bar substituting 1545 for the 4 digit number of your station. This will bring up some plain text, find and copy the URL next to “shoutcast_url”. This URL has forward slashes that need to be removed (leave the backslashes) or else it won’t work. Once that is done the URL can be added to TuneIn from their website. If you want to test the URL before adding it, try it in VLC Player.
Adding Other URLs
If you want to grab the stream URL for something else, you can sometimes find the URL by monitoring incoming traffic using either HTTPFox on Firefox or the network tab in Developer Tools in Chrome. Then either look for a URL that resembles a stream or a URL which continues to download even after the stream has been playing. This can be seen in HTTPFox when the Received value keeps growing and in Developer Tools in Chrome when a URL’s timeline bar keeps extending. Not all streams are easy to grab this way.
Listening to Recorded Audio Elsewhere
While it is quite easy to record and playback audio from within TuneIn, say you want to move the file to your desktop or play it outside of TuneIn. The recorded files are stored under /sdcard/TuneIn Radio without a file extension. They will be in whatever extension the recorded stream was using, usually .aac or .mp3. On Android BSPlayer Free was able to play recordings without a file extension. Other apps may work, but many refuse to play a file with no extension. On the desktop VLC will play recordings, but only if the appropriate extension is added back to the file name.
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Hello all.
I am trying to get some of my favorite local radio stations internet streams onto my phone. I got an URL sniffer and have been able to get Windows Media Player to play the MMS source on the stations that I want. In other words ... it is working.
What I am trying to do now is get a shortcut for the MMS link that will open the stream without me having to open Windows Media manually and then opening the URL. Everytime I create a shortcut, it creates an internet shortcut, which uses Internet Explorer. I have tried redirecting the shortcut to open with Media Player using GSFinder, and that still is not working.
Anybody have any suggestions to getting this to work.
mms://a1926.l2187545925.c21875.g.lm.akamaistream.net/D/1926/21875/v0001/reflector:45925
Above is the radio station address that I am trying to stream. I am not particular to any program ... all I want is to click on the shortcut and have the program self launch/play. Any help would be appreciated.
Thanks,
Kangle
Kangle said:
Hello all.
I am trying to get some of my favorite local radio stations internet streams onto my phone. I got an URL sniffer and have been able to get Windows Media Player to play the MMS source on the stations that I want. In other words ... it is working.
What I am trying to do now is get a shortcut for the MMS link that will open the stream without me having to open Windows Media manually and then opening the URL. Everytime I create a shortcut, it creates an internet shortcut, which uses Internet Explorer. I have tried redirecting the shortcut to open with Media Player using GSFinder, and that still is not working.
Anybody have any suggestions to getting this to work.
mms://a1926.l2187545925.c21875.g.lm.akamaistream.net/D/1926/21875/v0001/reflector:45925
Above is the radio station address that I am trying to stream. I am not particular to any program ... all I want is to click on the shortcut and have the program self launch/play. Any help would be appreciated.
Thanks,
Kangle
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what you're looking for is called an .ASX file.
it's basically a shortcut file for windows media streams.
look it up and make one yourself.
have fun
Sorry to bring an old thread up...but I found this very useful!
There are a lot of applications like WebTv, DiamondTV, but it is very simple.
Just make your own asx file, and click on it...voila WM or Coreplayer or any other player starts up and plays the stream. Light, easy.
here is a guide how to create the asx file:
To create an ASX metafile, open a text editor such as Notepad and enter the following text (substituting your own stream for stream):
<ASX version="3">
<Entry>
<ref href="stream" />
</Entry>
</ASX>
Save the text as an ASX file. Replace stream with your actual stream.
Click the ASX file to test it. Your media player should open and play the media file.
Nice
Finally, This post is really useful.
A post is never too old. You have completed it with essential informations.
Thanks! It's exactly what I was searching for.
Friends-
I am using tuned.mobi to locate stations and play them in the winmobile media player. However I can not save a station for playing in the future. How do I save a link so that I can build a list of stations to play?
I am saving the .asf file in different places, and the stream plays, but afterwards it is not available to play again without doing a browser search and downloading.
What am I doing wrong??? I can not create a playlist to play.
I posted this in the old Atrix 4G forum, before this existed. I now have an a partial answer to C. More comments / questions embedded.
I just came from the Windows Mobile world and needed to research how to listen / watch live streams.
A) Trying to listen to streaming audio (mp3) from a webpage. Leaving the web browser stops the audio. Besides trying to find the stream in a separate program, is there a browser (or other way) to keep the music playing?
B) Is there a way to keep the music streaming with the screen off (to save battery power)?
>>Item A/B I have yet to find a webbrowser which will continue to play in the background or stream with the screen off. Other music programs do work.
C) Is there a way to get embedded WMV/WMA (http/mms/.wmv/.wma/.asx/.asp) to stream, embedded or kicked off from a webpage?
I still can't fine a program which a browser will kick off if the browsers doesn't support it internally for an embedded media file. Any ideas?
Regarding entering in URLs directly. Using XiiiaLive I am able to stream a *.pls file and *.asx file. And in order to get the *.asp file to work, I'm able to open the file in a webbrowser, which then kicks off XiiiaLive and it works.
Unfortunately, it only plays the audio of video streams (even an *.wma) and on a recorded stream, you still can't fastforward or rewind. This is the only program I have found on the market that seems to support the various playlists / wrappers. I haven't found such a player for video.
In order to play WAV voicemail files in email, I used Remote Wave. It currently has a bug, that you need to kill it between uses. They are working on it.
I have been using the phone during my runs and out of 6 runs I have yet to have music last the whole time. I have used iheart and I have used the radio and both times after about 15-25 mins it will stop. Don't know.if lose signal or if runkeeper is doing it but it pisses me off.
Do you have task manager set to kill any apps or your music player. If so that could be the cause.
No. Why would that help? Think too many going on so system shuts it down?
No I had similar problems with my OG. When I set it to kill a few apps I had accidentally set it to automatically shut off my music payer also and it drove me crazy till I found it.
MX Player is one of the simplest and most elegant players I have ever used. However, it baffles me that I have to keep searching on the internet for streams that I've already viewed (e.g. if I want to watch a speech again, I have to find the link all over again as it only stores the last viewed stream link). MX Player should keep a list of previously viewed streams. This would really help us!
I thought that when you have the network stream popup open with no text entered, it shows a list of most recent entries? I get this.
You're right, I get that too. But, it's not intuitive. MX Player has always been intuitive, except here.
Suppose I have a bunch of video links that look like:
//r3---sn-vgqsenek.googlevideo.com/videoplayback?requiressl=yes&shardbypass=yes&cmbypass=yes&id=c2672f2fb5e&itag=22&ipbits=0&expire=1431044482&sparams=cmbypass,expire,id,ip,ipbits,itag,mm,ms,mv,nh,pl,requiressl,shardbypass,source&signature=7731E43598E560ECFA73803FEBC928282F&key=cms1&cms_redirect=yes&mm=31&ms=au&mt=1428859066&mv=m&nh=IgxMjcuMCLjE&pl=18
Hard to tell them apart. Thus, a way to create a list of streams would be very helpful.
Agree with you
It will be very helpful if MX player has the option that save the list of Network Stream.
Thanks!
@ajr1 @fulmind
Actually it won't work for most of the streaming links. For example the above given link is temporary. Once the session expires you cannot stream the same link. You will get only error. It's same with most of the streaming sites. They use session to avoid hot linking of any video file.
I figured this out a few days ago. I had gotten tired of using the iheartradio app. It's bloated, and spams my phone. All I wanted it for was to listen to a couple of stations. On my computer, I went to the site of an iheartradio station and clicked the link to listen live. I clicked the button to start the station playing. Then I right clicked on the page and selected the inspect option. Then I clicked the network tab and looked for an entry to appear that has playlist.m3u in it. I right clicked on one of those entries and selected the copy link address option. Then I opened VLC, clicked media then the open network stream option. I deleted whatever was there then pasted the url I had copied earlier. Then the station started playing. I then saved the playlist as an xspf playlist. I open that playlist in VLC on my desktop machine or on my phone and it plays.
Earlier I tried making a m3u playlist using the same stream url, but only the part up to and including playlist.m3u8. VLC would play it for maybe a minute or so then stop.
I'm using Google Chrome for linux on my desktop and my phone is an LG Xcharge using Android Nougat.
Now I can listen to the stations I want and don't have the iheart app taking up valuable storage space on my phone, also this frees up memory.
im trying to do the same as you. all im trying to stream is dc101.1.
Below is the link. it plays in vlc and the sound is not 100% it fades in and out.. but it work
https://c8.prod.playlists.ihrhls.co...ds:true&playedFrom=324&devicename=web-desktop
I try to use the same link in logitech media server and it stops after a minute. I used the same link in vlc app on android and it plays and stops and plays and stops...not fluid stream at all..
IS there something i have to change? Can you try the above and see how it works for you?!?
thanks
It seems that apps are required for most functionality and very few things are built in.