add broadcast radio station

How do I add a broadcast radio station to Apple TV? It seemed to do it before automatically from previous versions of iTunes.


I am not talking about iTunes Radio!


This is the Radio that is on Apple TV (2nd gen) before iTunes Radio was added.


There is an Internet option under Music at the top of LIBRARY. But it is just a defauilt list of stations (chosen by who?). Note this same list also shows Radio (which is iTunes Radio) too. It is Internet stream broadcast radio (NPR, local, overseas, internet only) that is what I refer to here.


Confused yet? Apple needs to clarify this naming scheme way better… Maybe the billions spent on Beats will help.


There also seems to be no way to add a station to your favorites list in Radio on Apple TV Radio (again NOT iTunes Radio!)


Forexample, there is a great jazz station out of Soul, Korea I would like to add.


http://jazzlounge.kr


station address for adding: http://jazzlounge.kr/listen.pls


And on Apple TV Radio there is a favorites list that did (at one time) come/sync/get from my iTunes. But, it is now out of date. I'd like to add this station, some others, and remove some (dead) internet radio stations. It turns out, it is easy to remove a station from Apple TV.


Adding a streaming station so you can select it in Apple TV Radio for playing (no OSX or iOS needed) remains a mystery!

AppleTV 2, iOS 4.3.2

Posted on May 17, 2014 12:57 PM

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May 18, 2014 12:41 PM in response to vazandrew

Says who?

I see nothing from Apple about this, anywhere. 🙂
I was just on the phone with them for 90 minutes. The first rep read an Apple document to me that said a user has to create a playlist in iTunes of radio stations only and AppleTV will see it and it becomes your Favorites list on Apple TV “Radio” (again, not iTunes Radio).
This matches to my memory of how my first and current Favorites list of stations on Radio on AppleTV was created (the one I want to update and add to.)

Just make one of only stations and AppleTV sees it and that is that.

The third supervising rep was the least knowledgable and did not know there was a Radio button/app on AppleTV. So she bumped me up to engineering after I taught her about the feature.
They are going to call me back. 😢
Although, in 25+ years of calling any company customer service/support number, I have never been called back. Ever. Not one time. Not just tech. Any, company. They never call back. We'll see… 😟

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