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Thread ID: 142881	2016-10-01 02:41:00	How can I serve an internet radio station from my desktop PC?	BBCmicro (15761)	Press F1

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1426739	2016-10-01 02:41:00	The station is media-ice.musicradio.com/ClassicFMMP3.m3u I want to use my PC to serve it to a Wifi music receiver on my network (Digitech AA-2110 with analogue output) Using Bubble uPnP or Pixel Media Controller on my Android phone I can see 2 servers on the PC - WMP and Serviio. Both work OK for playing LOCAL files to the music receiver. But I would also like to relay this particular internet radio station. The URL works with my PC as the renderer using WMP and also plays locally from VLC Is it possible for WMP or Serviio to relay this stream? (Win10) I found a place in the Serviio console to enter the radio station URL as an internet stream (as opposed to an internet folder) and it accepted it OK but I couldn't see it in Bubble or Pixel I'm wondering if I need to buy the paid version of one of the controllers or if there is a router problem? Maybe there some other way to do what I want?	BBCmicro (15761)
1426740	2016-10-01 02:52:00	Have a look at the thread on Netflix. You may be able to use Kodi - there is a tutorial referenced there that shows you how to "install" (if that is the correct term) a .m3u file on Kodi. It looks as though wainuitech has got Kodi going on a PC whereas I am just using an Android tablet but the principles look the same.	John H (8)
1426741	2016-10-01 03:48:00	See if this is of any help, make sure media Streaming in turned on to start with. This site www.isunshare.com Shows how. Don't worry about watching the video, the written instructions are just as easy and quicker :) Bit more nitty gritty turn-windows-10-computer-dlna-streaming-server (www.thewindowsclub.com)	wainuitech (129)
1426742	2016-10-01 04:01:00	Thanks for that tip John - I've now installed Kodi and it's looking good Kodi seems to be able to use Bluetooth as a Playback device without setting BT as the default in the PC's Playback Devices. So the default can stay as the computer's speakers. If I can get Kodi to render the URL locally, it will appear at the other end of my BT link AND I can open another feed of the URL on the computer for local playback so that I can record it That's the problem I've been trying to solve. I was able to render the URL on the PC and play it to BT but I couldn't simultaneously record it on the PC. Wifi streaming was an attempt to get around Windows restriction to one playback device. (I would still like to know if Wifi streaming is possible) We listen to that URL all day long. Every now and then I wish I could replay something.... Thanks again :)	BBCmicro (15761)
1426743	2016-10-01 04:19:00	There is a PVR function for TV in Kodi. I wonder if you can record your URL that way for replay?	John H (8)
1426744	2016-10-01 04:26:00	VLC will stream any input over your network in a variety of formats. Their website has a number of howto's.	fred_fish (15241)
1426745	2016-10-01 06:52:00	VLC will stream any input over your network in a variety of formats. Their website has a number of howto's. I tried to do it flying blind :blush: and together with Bubble and Pixel not seeing anything in the way of a server, I decided it was Too Difficult But you've encouraged me to give it a proper try Edit: I see what you mean - render the URL on the PC and relay that input rather than passing on the raw feed	BBCmicro (15761)
1426746	2016-10-01 20:46:00	I've discovered that the URL in question has its own music add-on (Classic FM, in the 'Radio' collection). So I don't really need to learn how to load an .m3u into Kodi. But it would be a useful thing to know, along with Kodi's PVR and serving capabilities - and VLC's serving abilities. Rainy day stuff.... As an incidental observation, Kodi briefly showed up as a server in Pixel Media Controller on my Android phone	BBCmicro (15761)
1426747	2016-10-05 22:53:00	Just to round this off - The free music software Foobar works great. It's a very stable server and accepts the above URL (with http:// in front of it). Plays to my Digitech wifi music streamer fine. No need for a cellphone to act as controller. I can choose to play it simultaneously on my desktop (without using any other app) and have two independent volume controls, one for the desktop the other for the stream. That's great for recording in Audacity WMP also accepts the URL and plays it locally but won't 'cast' it to my music streamer or BT (but both destinations show up in the cast-to list, and casting to BT works with local files). I presume this is something to do with DRM. A pity because WMP is another very stable server. Unstable servers (on my network) are Kodi, VLC, Serviio The only disadvantage with Foobar (that I can see) is that it streams in PCM and puts a 1.4 Mbps load on the network. There might be a plug-in for streaming in MP3	BBCmicro (15761)
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