Live365.com doesn’t make it easy for casual users to figure out how to play a radio station with anything but the Live365 website. There is a URL you can use to directly access the MP3 stream, it’s just hard to find. If you want to play a stream in iTunes, Winamp, or on your iPhone, XBOX Media Center, or any other compatible device you’ll need the direct stream URL.
The following link is a bookmarklet that you can use to get the stream URL for any Professional Live365 station. Make sure the station says “professional”, or the stream won’t work.
In Firefox and Safari you can left click (keep the button down) and drag this link to your bookmark toolbar. In Internet Explorer you can right click and add the link to your favorites.
Now when you visit a Live365 professional station page, like Houndstooth, you can click the saved bookmarklet and it will give you the stream URL.
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Hey thanks! Currently I only list stations in the directory that will play without a username/password. You can manually add the station to your Favorites list though – but if you’re looking at this post you probably already know how to do that.
Mike
I want to thank you for this post. Since I discovered Screamer Radio I don’t deal with web players anymore, but reaching to the stream URL is getting harder.
No need to decrypt Wireshark traffic or download specific software. Your solution just works like a charm. Thank you for posting!
@J.G. – Your welcome!