Adding a radio station to iTunes

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Adding a radio station to iTunes

I can't seem to find how to add a radio station to the ones already listed on iTunes. I've dragged the "address" from the station's website (kcsb Santa Barbara, CA), but it won't stick. I'm doing this because I'm trying a new piece of shareware, "RadioLover", in which I can take streaming radio stations and convert them to mp3 files. I can do this on all the regular iTunes stations, but not the one I'm trying to add, KCSB. My young nephew is a freshman at UCSB and the early morning DJ and I'd like to record him. If the following helps any potential responder, the URL for KCSM (for example) is: http://pri.kts-af.net/redir/index.plsesid=a9ffa5637c58363cfc0547115f64c2a1&urlno=1&clientid=7&uid=68efed4d03ec7e45fd3978262c107180&clicksrc=xml. But the URL, seeminly the problem, is: http://www.kcsb.org/wp-content/uploads/webcast/kcsb_128.m3u. It's not right somehow. Thanks for anyone who can assist me!

macbookpro Mac OS X (10.4.8)

Posted on Feb 14, 2007 1:02 AM

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Answer 1

Feb 15, 2007 12:01 AM in response to cupcake1

When I clicked on the URL in your message, KCSB started playing in iTunes.

It doesn't go to the Radio collection, it goes to the Music collection. But that's where all my other streams are (like KCSM and FolkAlley.com). As far as I can tell there is no way to add to the iTunes radio collection, although you can add streams from the radio collection to play lists.

If you knew all that, perhaps it was a temporary problem (the KCSB server reaching its stream limit, for example).

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Answer 2

Feb 15, 2007 12:09 AM in response to Denis Lynch

Perhaps you have some program other than iTunes registered to deal with .m3u files (which are MP3 playslists)? Or perhaps you tried to put that URL into the Open Stream... dialog, which probably won't work.

I used TextEdit to open the .m3u file for KCSB, and see that the actual stream address is:

http://live.kcsb.org:80/KCSB_128

you should be able to enter that URL into the Open Stream... dialog. But it is easier to just click on the link to the .m3u (playlist) file, and let iTunes take care of the details.

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