add webradio to playlist

Volumio Development Suggest a feature
1

hello,

since volumio 2 it’s not possible to make a playlist with webradios. i’d like to have a playlist with all my favorite webradios and navigate through the playlist with the back and forward button. (so that it would be possible to use volumio like a normal radio OR a streaming player)

is there any workaround? please help!!

best regards

paul

2

you can create a queue with radios and save this as playlist, but I miss also a function to add a web radio to a playlist

3

+1

I also use this workaround to make playlists with webradios (and launch them with a REST Api command). But the possibility to navigate in a webradio playlist with prev/next would be nice for operation with remote controller or hardware buttons.

4

+1

it’s currently a confusing distinction between webradio and other music sources

5

A number of people have suggested this for a long time. Personally it doesn’t make sense to me to have webradios in a playlist: each entry will play indefinitely. If you want to select a new station, why is a playlist easier? I guess I’m missing something here, or other peoples’ listening habits are very different from mine.

6

If you have a remote controller or hardware button on your system you probably have previous/next buttons. If webradios are in a playlist this allows to change the radio station easily, a bit like in a car system.
Without this feature, it’s not possible to change radios using the hardware buttons, you have to open the volumio interface.

7

i also think that this would be a very naeccessary feature. for now i use a python workaround that is not very elegant…

8

+1 as feature request.

Even nicer feature would be possibility to have Favorite radios as default playlist, and than possibility to toggle stations with next/prev buttons!

9

+1

I’d also appreciate this feature as I want to control volumio via MQTT from https://github.com/richiewebgate/volumio-mqtt.

I use volumio for webradio only (on a raspi with an external led matrix display) and browsing through radio stations like on a regular playlist would be very nice.

10

There’s a tedious way to get around this.

  1. find the radio station and add it to the queue (three dot menu on the right side)
  2. repeat this until your queue is as you want it to be
  3. go to your queue
  4. click on the disk icon in the upper right corner
  5. replace one of the playlists or type in the name of a new one
    This should do it.

But why do the developpers don’t simply give us the option “Add ot Playlist” in the three dot menu as when selected a song from the artists or the albums ???
@developpers: do you hear/read us?