Media Player tab and streaming not working?

[suzy]

Playing local files works well!

But when entering a URI for a stream, I can't get it to work. For example I got this URL from the radio station website but it won't play, and the "Connecting to the server" message on the tab just keeps spinning.

https://ice4.somafm.com/poptron-128-mp3

I also tried some URLs from https://streamurl.link/ without success.

[salvadordf]

Hi,

Follow these steps :

• Open this page and download the LAVFilters-0.78-Installer.exe : https://github.com/Nevcairiel/LAVFilters/releases/tag/0.78
• Install the LAVFilters to improve compatibility with more audio formats.
• Open a media player tab.
• Click on the globe button.
• Paste this URL https://somafm.com/m3u/poptron.m3u.
• Select Playlist in the Type box.
• Click on the OK button.

I got that URL from the "Listen" page at https://somafm.com/listen/

Notice that the URL is a playlist link that ends with m3u. BriskBard also supports pls playlists.

In the case of https://streamurl.link/ I searched for "somafm" and I clicked on the green button to copy this URL : http://api.somafm.com/defcon.pls
Then I followed the previous steps and selected Playlist in the Type box. It also worked.

If you visit more web pages with radio station links make sure to copy the playlist links that end with m3u or pls.

[suzy]

It looks like the problem was a combination of me not knowing what I am doing, and it not being clear what BriskBard can and can't do.

But I followed your steps and now can listen to the music from the internet. Very helpful!

Thank you so much for the prompt reply.