Internet Radio on Apple TV...

yeah odd they dident but as far as i know it's not included in the new update

IS there ANY way to do this - listen to internet radio stations in your itunes on your ATV?

The ATV is for buying music and movies, not listening to free radio. There is no revenue in free radio.

Eseverence,

With the new ATV, you will be able to treat your ATV as an Airtunes device... which means you can stream iTunes content including internet radio from your Mac to your Airtunes wirelessly. In essence, the ATV is acting like an Airport Express.

Not the same as stand-alone support of Internet Radio. Maybe in the future??

Jim

There is no stand-alone support for internet radio in ATV, as far as I know. But you can set up a radio station in your iTunes library as if it were an artist or an album. You can the access that internet radio station through ATV.

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There is no revenue in free podcasts either, yet Apple TV will have great support for streaming and downloading podcasts. (I actually bought the Apple TV for viewing TED.com podcasts).

If enough people send in a request to Apple to support itunes radio, I think they'll probably do something with it in a future update.

This is why Apple TV is great. You pay for it once, then Apple sends you free updates with new fancy capabilities. It still has a LOT of potential, and with the new update on the way, things are looking very bright indeed.

exactly. Just make a playlist of your favorite radio stations, make sure that playlist is synced, and that's it.

There is a way to listen to the Apple supported web radio stations on your Version 2 Apple TV.
Unfortunately you have to select and play the radio station using iTunes on your computer. At the bottom right of the window is a button with a speaker symbol that says "computer". Click that and you will see an option for Apple TV. Select that, and your audio will be re-directed to the Apple TV. There will be no sound from your computer.

Incidentally, you can also use this option to send iTunes audio playlists to the Apple TV

cslarsen wrote:

If enough people send in a request to Apple to support itunes radio, I think they'll probably do something with it in a future update.

In that case probably only a few people requested video looping, continuous music video playback, etc etc

They don't make money either....

AC

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Fletsch,

Agreed: No stand-alone support for internet radio in ATV.
Agreed: You can access iTunes playlists etc from ATV via "source" command.

Disagree: When you access iTunes playlists via Source, any internet radio stations in a playlist will NOT show up. I've tried that. If you know a secret, I'd love to know. But I specifically tried it and it didn't work.

WIth the new AppleTV Take 2 release today, you should be able to stream an internet radio station from your Mac to ATV via AirTunes. But it's a "push" to the ATV, not a "pull" from the ATV menus.

Jim

I have it working right now. Just add a radio station to a playlist in iTunes and it will be synced to Apple TV as if it were a song. Then just play that "song" from the Apple TV interface. No need to stream it from a computer running iTunes.

To help me navigate to them easier, I set the genre of my radio stations to "Internet Radio", then I can drill into them through the Genres on the Apple TV

Steve,

Son of a gun!!! You are so right. Works like a champ! I just realized I had unchecked my radio stations so they wouldn't sync to my ipod, so they weren't showing up and syncing to my ATV also... duh!

Checked 'em and they sync and play. Terrific. Thank you!

Jp

Steve,

I have done that but still cannot get AppleTV to recognize the station as a song. In particular, I am trying to access a station that offers sized streams in several formats. From iTunes I dragged the link to a playlist I created and synced. The playlist appeared in AppleTV but when I tried to open that playlist I got a message saying that no song was found. Any suggestions?

Thanks

Correction Steve-excellent advice. Retried and everything worked perfectly. Fantastic!

This only seems to work for me if I keep iTunes running. If I quit iTunes, the playlist and all stations go away. Suggestions?

Bob