PS3-Radio will download from a public web site a list of thousands of radio stations. It will then sort the list by Country and remove any station that will not work with PS3 Media Server. I have found that URLs ending with "ASX" or "M3U" or "RAM" will not play on the PS3. Those entries are automatically removed. To make this work, copy the PS3-Radio.exe into the c:\program files\PS3 Media Server directory Run the program and click on Steps 1, 2, 3. Note: STEP 1 takes a very long time to download. It takes at least 10 minutes on my computer. STEPS 2 & 3 run in less than a second. This program adds the radio station entries to web.conf Once you have completed all 3 steps, restart the PS3 service on your computer to activate the changes. <<< Using your PS3 >>> Using the PS3, navigate to the Music menu. Scroll down and you should see World-Radio as a new menu item. Select it and enjoy thousands of radio stations from all over the world! New copies of PS3-Radio can be found at: http://www.foxhollow.ca/PS3-Radio ---------------------------------- Adding your own Radio Stations: ---------------------------------- In the same directory as all of the PS3-RADIO files, you will see a file called FAVORITES.CSV Find a working radio station URL. I suggest using WINAMP and display the web address of the currently playing station. Paste that entry into favorites with a description. Example: Using winamp, I click on the scrolling song name and a popup displayed the URL as: http://206.71.145.10:8010 Using Windows Notepad, I then paste the following line into favorites.csv: Radio Paradise,http://206.71.145.10:8010 re-run PS3-RADIO and your new entry will appear in the favorites menu of your PS3. ------------------ Update History: ------------------ 30 July 2009: Initial Release 31 July 2009: Now supports favorites. Place your favorites in a file called "favorites.csv" and place it in the same directory as the web.conf and ps3radio.exe The format of the file is: description,web-link Examples: (note: the audiostream prefix will be stripped during import) audiostream.World-Radio,C,Canada=CIOO 100.1 Halifax - NS,http://38.102.73.100/c100 audiostream.World-Radio,C,Canada=CKDU Dalhousie University Halifax NS,http://ckdu.dal.ca/ckdu-hi.pls 4MBS Brisbane,http://wma1.viastreaming.net/classicfm WCR Community Radio,http://icecast.commedia.org.uk:8000/wcr.mp3 1 August 2009: Country Flags! Put "PS3-Radio-Icons" as "c:\Program Files\PS3 Media Server\PS3-Radio-Icons" The flags will appear as the icon for the station. Note: I downloaded the flags from WIKI. If a flag is incorrect, I need to know where to get the proper flag. 10 August 2009: - The icon location for the World Radio data is converted to remove embedded spaces and changed to a "%20" which is the web friendly method of specifying an URL - Added a 'Remove ALL' button to remove all World-Radio stations from your web.conf - A file called PS3-RADIO.CONF is read to see if it contains a line of data. That line is used as the prefix to the menu location on your PS3. Example: I like "World-Radio" to appear in the top level menu. That means my prefix should be: audiostream.World-Radio However, if you want the listing to appear under "Web", change the prefix to: audiostream.Web,World-Radio 11 August 2009: - Fixed a bug with URLs containing an "=" 12 August 2009: - Playlists are downloaded and the real IP location is extracted. This has allowed many more stations to suddenly work! 18 Sept 2009: - changed some of the on-screen messages to show which web.conf was being modified. - changed how the last line of data is handled in case the original file did not end with a <cr><lf> 17 Oct 2009: - A bad entry on the frequency/database website caused ps3radio to fail with an "error 62, Input past end of file". The program now checks for the bad entry and fixes it. 18 Oct 2009: - Added URLs containing /asx to the list of web entries that need to be checked for playlists. Since the PS3 does not like playlists, we need to handle these entries in a special way to try to decypher the real location of the embedded content. 22 Oct 2009: - Added support for another type of playlist. This increases the number of stations that will work ok with ps3radio. 12 Dec 2009: - PM3 Media Services does not like URLs that start with a space. PS3RADIO will try to remove leading spaces from the web reference. 30 Jan 2010: - Added a check to verify that you have write access to the program files directory. If not, a popup will occur to notify you to run-as administrator (required on Vista/Windows7) - Fixed "runtime error 7 - Out of memory error" - Check and fix URLs with embedded commas because it truncates the listing on the PS3. 15 Feb 2010: - Added a check to verify that you have copied the files to the same directory as PMS. If pms.exe is not found, a popup will appear asking you to verify that you have copied the files to the correct spot. fyi: The files are usually in: C:\Program Files\PS3 Media Server 10 June 2011: - Fixed the problem of Step1 hanging at 49% due to bad entry on website 11 June 2011: - Program is now compatible with PMS 1.23.0 (stores data in c:\programdata\pms\web.conf instead of program directory)
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