SRC - Radiostations

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Introduction

Internet Radiostations are part of the SRC receiver and can be accessed by clicking on the [Radio] button in the menu dialog. The list that is offered, is stored in a notecard in the contents of your SRC receiver and called: Radiolist.

The Radiostations list can be sorted by music genre, can have at approximately between 80 to 120 stations (depending on metadata), have a linked station logo and be of streamtype SHOUTcast, Icecast or Nicecast.

An example list is supplied with the purchase of your Receiver, but is of course up to you to maintain. However, the example list is a list of stations that have been maintained by us since 2006 and is updated monthly. So the list is reliable; The problem is that the availability of radiostations and reliability of the supplied URL at any moment from various sources are prone to changes.

You can pickup an updated Radiolist from our store on the counter. There are seperate cards for the normal and X255 types, since the latter deviates with imagery (white background).

Finding a radiostation using a SHX Remote Control

Absolutely the easiest way to find a radiostation is to use a remote control that works together with any SRN/SRC type of receiver and has the ability to search radio stations. Most types that end with a 1 or 2 like the 301 are able to search with just typing a keyword and it will automatically set it when found. There is no need to enter the station into the notecard, unless you want to.

The search feature is not part of the receivers itself, because most receivers are sold to clubs, who 'make' music themselves.

Google It

Quickest way to find your favorite radio station is by searching it with google.
Make sure you enter a rather unique combination of words, searching for "rockstation" will obviously come up with millions of results that you do not want.
So, if you want to find Otto's Classical Music station, you just type: ottos classic in the google search bar, then it will find 1fm.com for you as the first hit.

Of course each website is different, but most will offer a link to listen to the stream with a Winamp link. Click on that link to listen to the stream in winamp. (Do note that some radio stations do not have a winamp link and only show you a listen now button with an embedded player, these sites are impossible to use in any external player, that means also not in SL)

But, we do not want to listen now, we want to know the address of the stream. Well, if you do not have Winamp in the first place, just open the link with notepad and you will see the url in the LST file. Select the url and copy it (CTRL-C).
If you did however open the stream with Winamp, press and hold the ALT key, then press the 3 key. You will see the current stream address in a information window. Select the url and copy it (CTRL-C).

Use Shoutcast.com

Of course finding your favorite station on www.shoutcast.com is another way. Though with the latest changes, it's not that easy anymore to fetch the URL.
You have to make sure to set the options on that website to connect by fetching the playlist file, which you could opt to open. But that depends if the playlist is linked to a program, such as winamp. You might end up just opening winamp or another music player.

Because of the diversity and complexity of software, we can not go into specific details on how to deal with each and every problem that may arise.

How to add to the radiolist

To use the address you found in your SHX radio receiver, make a line like this:

SC|Otto's Classics|Classic|http://64.62.252.130:9030/

Where you obviously pasted the URL as the last entry in this line.

The format is as follows:

SC, S2 or IC | ButtonName | GenreName | Stream Address | Image UUID (optional) | Stream # (optional)

If you are unable to type the pipe sign: | copy and paste it from previous entries.

1. SC = SHOUTcast1, S2 = SHOUTcast2, IC = Icecast/Nicecast
2. Buttonname (not larger than 24 characters), this is the button you see in the radio menu of the board
3. Music Genre name (not larger than 24 characters), used for grouping stations (can be filtered with the menu of the board)
4. Stream Address: the full URL of the music stream
5. Image UUID: is shown on the board. Fetch an image UUID by rightclicking an image in your inventory and select: Copy Asset UUID, then paste with CTRL-V
6. Stream # is the number or SID of the SHOUTcast2 stream. If you omit the value, it will default to stream #1

Things to remember:

• Keep the station name short, so it displays allright on the buttons. Preferably less then 12 characters.
• Avoid typing spaces before the first keyword SC, S2 or IC and avoid spaces before the URL
• The image uuid is optional, but when using a specific SID, do not omit the (double) separator sign: |
• The Genre (3rd parameter) is used for filtering stations per genre (using the [Genre] button).
• Always start the url with http://
• Relay stations, like soma or aol, do not give out information that can be displayed in Second Life. They will produce music of course, but the board is not able to display the songs. In most cases there is an alternative address, which usually can be found when using one of the SHX remote controls (since they filter out the relays).

Adding your own station Image

Most stations that are default in the radiolist as an example already have an image added, which will be displayed when you select the radio station.

If you have added your own favorite station, you might want to add the image of the station too.

1. Since the background of the SRC receiver is black, it is best to get a caption of the station image and put it on a black background, with for instance Photoshop. Then resize the texture to 512x512 and export it as a TGA file.
2. Import it into Second Life, with the "Upload Texture" function under the File pulldown menu in the Second Life viewer.
3. Rightclick the texture that is now in your inventory, in your textures folder and select: "COPY ASSET UUID"
4. The image uuid (key) is now copied to the clipboard, open the Radiolist and press CTRL-V to paste the key from the clipboard, behind the radiolist entry.
5. Then you will have an entry like shown below:

Example with an added image:
SC|Psyradio.fm|Progressive|http://81.88.36.42:8010/|744a8cf2-c3a3-119b-1844-402d42f81b04

Reloading the Radiolist

If you changed the radiolist and want to reload it (without restarting the SRC receiver), do the following:

• Open the menu by touching the receiver
• Click on [Manager]
• Click on the "Radiolist" button
• The radiolist will be reloaded