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February 15, 2007
Internet Radio in FrontRow
FrontRow was released over a year ago. It plays full-length movies, music, pictures, and even trailers off the Internet. Yet with all these great features, it still doesn't have an option to play Internet Radio. iTunes has an extensive list of Internet radio stations to listen to, but FrontRow doesn't see them. This also includes most MPEG Audio Stream Internet radio stations not in included in itunes.

Here's how you can get those Internet Station into FrontRow and start listening to Live Internet Radio in style.
  1. Find your Internet Radio Stations: Navigate through the iTunes Radio stations or find any M3U stations out there on the Internet.

  2. Add them to the Library: Simply drag these radio stations to your iTunes Library. This will save the m3u file locally as an iTunes Track.

  3. Organize: Finding these stations in FrontRow can be difficult, especially with larger libraries. Create a Smart Play list, based on 'Kind', and looking for 'MPEG audio stream.'. This will find all your Internet radio stations. Now in FrontRow you simply have to pull up the correct play list.



If your looking for some alternates to the iTunes list, I would recommend Mike's Radio World. It is probably the most extensive collection of internet radio links on the net. Look for the WinAmp stations for iTunes compatability.

In future releases of FrontRow, I hope Apple will add the Internet Radio Stations under the Music category in the next release, and adds it to AppleTV, for those going with that route.

UPDATE: Some readers have pointed out a few suggestion refining your Smart Playlist.
  • Ed Kohler suggests setting Smart Playlist to find any track over 90 min. This may not be good for Movies, so filter that out accordingly.
  • Rodzirra via Digg, suggests adding "Playlist URL" to your Smart Playlist as well.
Thanks! Additional input is always welcome!

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5 Comments:

Blogger thumbwarz said...

I love internet radio in concept, but organizing/finding it is always the hard part. this is great to know. I'm all for it

February 19, 2007 12:35 PM  
Blogger Ed Kohler said...

I couldn't get the "Kind" match to work consistently for me, but accomplished the same goal by using a Time is Greater Than 90 minutes query. Any time greater than your longest music file will do the trck.

February 20, 2007 2:17 PM  
Anonymous A Webb said...

You can actually create a playlist and just drag the radio station to the new playlist. It will then show-up in Front Row as a playlist in the music section. I just name it "Radio".

March 1, 2007 9:19 AM  
Blogger coco said...

Thats great for internet radio. Does anybody know of a way to attach an analog radio device (like RadioShark) so that it comes up in frontrow? That would be awesome.

August 29, 2007 5:24 PM  
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January 15, 2008 5:59 AM  

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