Can anyone recommend a decent classic rock radio station that can stream via Volumio? Preferrably in English language, or without too much talking.
Up to now, my go-to has been Absolute Classic Rock (UK), but they announced today that they are killing off their direct streams and the only way to listen is via their app, web page or DAB. So my little Volumio Pi radio is going to loose it’s feed.
Love my little radio, so it’s time to tune it to something new. Anyone got any recommendations that work with our beloved Volumio?
Thanks all, looks like some great suggestions there.
I’m having a play to see if I can pull the stream URIs from the Absolute web page player to maybe make it work that way. But some of these may definitely also get installed into the radio as alternatives when their playlist gets a bit repetitive.
I tried the equivalent in Chrome for the Internet Explorer option in your link, and so far it is working. I managed to pull a URI out of their player web page and put that into Volumio.
Even had the added advantage of including my account log-in, so I get more music and less ads as well.
Now the question is of course how long that link will last, and whether it needs to be periodically renewed if cookies or login data expires.
It won’t work in TuneIn as that’s one of the 3rd party aggregator sites/apps that they are trying to exclude by shutting down the direct streams in the first place, so those are all it will have. But going back to the source and their own web page is a viable option here.
JB radio 2, a Canadian station, had it on for weeks now, and my wife even comments on the music rather than asking it to be turned off!!! No talking, just great music! https://maggie.torontocast.com:8076/aac
Add this link as a new station in “my web radios”
Maybe it’s geolocked (I’m in the UK), and they screwed the flac one up and got the lock backwards?
I’ve dug the Absolute URI’s out of their web player, so the original question is more or less resolved now anyway. But it’s good to have a few other stations on the roster for when I feel like something different anyway.
So thanks to you (and everyone else) for the suggestions and recommendations.
I have been listening a lot lately to Antenna Bayern there are a few of them and also in German which is great because I only want the music and not the usual inane rubbish on commercial radio about carpet sales and dog worming tablets. These stations may still have them but I dont understand them so it is a win win for me
