Easily play internet streams / radio stations using MPD

[RemBrand]

Couldn't find this on the forum yet, so I thought I might share. I have a A210 with MPD running happily. I use Gnome Music Player Client to control it from my XP laptop and MPoD from my iPhone. All works like a charm. TV is switched off and it stream directly to my stereo.

I have no cable to that system, but sometimes I do want to listen to the radio. Most of the stations I listen to are available in mp3-streams (dutch and belgian channels). Now here's the fun part, open the internet (mp3) stream in WinAmp, save the playlist to .m3u file in \\Pch\share\Apps\local\etc\mpd\playlists.

After a restart you can just choose the playlist in MPD and play any stream you saved like this

Remco

(added some resource links)

[zalarcon]

Thanks for your tips.

[Forgone]

Yup, this was the possibility I looked for to stop spilling the 100W electricity used by my tv and use my smartphone for playing hdd and internet music and even bittorent downloading with the pch.
-updated: -I found out I can copy stream url's from for instance
http://www.ipodder.org/radio,
without using winamp, and and paste into a .m3u file with texteditor pspad.-end updated-

A .m3u file from winamp looks like this:

Code:

#EXTM3U
#EXTINF:-1,CreaturesOfTheNight Cotn Radio Beach Lounge Relax Ibiza
http://46.105.6.213:80/

-update:-but I noticed the lines beginning with "#" are not needed.

Until now I have installed
on my pch: CSI,opkg,mpd,telnet server
on my android phone:Droided media tank (-updated:-for playing directly music or playlist files from hdd with out updating/using a music database; for bittorrent and other webclients-end updated-),BitMPC (play from mpd database and playlist with internet radio) & DroidMPD (for update mpd database in options).

Next thing on my wish-list is an android app to browse streams and directly, without cut and paste, play.

[mschuls]

Does anyone know how to play albums from VPRO Luisterpaal (http:// 3voor12.vpro.nl / luisterpaal) via NMT? I have a A-210.