Internet Radio on Apple TV...

Hi Steve & AZWally,

Is it possible to access an "Internet Radio" playlist from Shared Music or does it have to be a Synced Playlist? I have tried through Shared Music and I get the "!There are no songs in this playlist." message.

It has to be a synced playlist. It will not work thru Shared Music. I just figured that out myself.

That is what I see also, but if I start playing a radio station while iTunes is open, and then quit iTunes, the station continues to play thru Apple TV.

That is just what I discovered. I shut down iTunes and my internet radio station kept playing. The issue is that the "songs" disappear once you stop playing it on the AppleTV. To restart it you have to open up iTunes again. Minor inconvenience but as I have a MBP I don't want to have to depend upon streaming. But, at least we have this.

I'm getting the "There are no songs in this playlist" message also and can't get radio play. All my other playlist work fine. My Mac is synced, on, and iTunes is up. What am I doing wrong?

Was working for me, although only when itunes on. ATV did a spontaneous reboot at some point, now I get "There are no songs in this playlist". I've tweaked my itunes settings a bunch to no avail. It was nice while it lasted.

Yeah, this works, but if I quit iTunes, and open back up....when I go to the playlist on the ATV it says there are no songs in the playlist. This occurs even if I have radio stations in the playlists correctly in iTunes, and have synched them.

Anyone else having problems?

Another solution that you may consider is Airfoil by Rogue Amoeba. It allows you to redirect sound output generated from specific applications to any available device (e.g., another computer on your network, a Airport Express, or an Apple TV). Handy if you prefer, like me, a flash/browser based internet radio service like Pandora.

http://www.rogueamoeba.com/airfoil/mac/download.php

Just create a playlist inside your itunes music and drag the stations you want inside that 'radio' playlist. they show up under your music playlists in TV. Click on the station you want and it plays.

I was very excited after upgrading to V2 to find that playlists of streaming radio stations worked perfectly, with or without the computer left on. However after rebuilding my music library, rebooting, and resyncing my ATV, every playlist with radio stations in it now displays "There are no songs in this playlist."

If yours is still working, don't reboot your ATV or you'll probably lose "computer-less" streaming, too.

I can confirm this: I rebooted the Apple TV in order to get rid of sluggish menu responses, but now the My Radio playlist is/remains empty... bummer!

You can listen to the radio on your atv. First you must creat a playlist and you may call it "Radio" if you like. Drag the stations you want in that folder. Go to music and sync to your atv. You will find this folder under "Music" then "Playlist" then "Radio", and voila, you should be able to play your radio.

Marc

I'm with the first two posters... it worked great the first night... then rebooted and playlists with internet radio stations show up empty. Can't make it work for the sake of me.

Jim

Re-read the earlier posts on this list... Steve and another have correctly noted what seems to be happening:

1. You can create a playlist (e.g. "Radio") in iTunes and add Internet Radio Stations to the list
2. It will sync with Apple TV
3. You can find and play the Internet Stations on your Apple TV ONLY when iTunes is open on your Mac/PC.
4. If iTunes is turned off, the playlist "Radio" disappears from your AppleTV list until you turn iTunes back on.

Weird and a bit inconvenient.

Jim

Dudes and Dudettes,

There is definitely something weird going on with the Internet Radio Playlists on Apple TV. Yesterday I created playlists with Radio stations in them. Streamed and listened to them all night long. Worked like a charm! I was excited, love the streaming channels that are offered in itunes. Today booted up my computer and let it sync to the apple tv... and now all of those playlists are empty. They play on the computer through itunes, but not on apple tv. I synced and re-synced and then tri-synced and still nothing. I created new playlists with a few new stations in them along with a few of the old ones that I enjoyed yesterday. ONLY THE NEW STATIONS show up on the apple tv... NONE of the stations that I listened to previously are available. They don't even show up. It is as if they are BLOCKED! This is extremely weird and frustrating. Any thoughts, any one? Any one?