How to import a radio station list from Rhythmbox to Banshee?

I want to try Banshee on Lucid and have to import all my radio station lists, so I wonder how to do this automatically instead of importing each one by hand.

I have several radio stations in Rhythmbox and the process would be very tiresome.

Thanks

Solution 1:

I don't know whether this is the best way, but I created a play-list of Armenian radio stations, Armenian.m3u

#EXTM3U
#EXTINF:-1,Beirut, Lebanon - Bashdee
http://yp.shoutcast.com/sbin/tunein-station.pls?id=546514
#EXTINF:-1,Istanbul, Turkey - Nor Radyo
http://www.norradyo.com:8000/
#EXTINF:-1,Moscow, Russia - Armenia.ru
http://radio.armenia.ru/pls/listen.pls
#EXTINF:-1,International - Armenian Bible Study Radio
http://sc7.mystreamserver.com:8036
#EXTINF:-1,International - Armenian Pulse Radio
http://yp.shoutcast.com/sbin/tunein-station.pls?id=416989
#EXTINF:-1,International - Arm Radio
http://www.realradios.com/x/stream/50536
#EXTINF:-1,Yerevan, Armenia - Public Radio of Armenia
http://www.armradio.am/eng/live/listens.pls
#EXTINF:-1,Yerevan, Armenia - Public Radio of Armenia - Shoutcast
http://yp.shoutcast.com/sbin/tunein-station.pls?id=898669
#EXTINF:-1,Yerevan, Yerevan, Armenia - AR Radio Intercontinental
http://www.realradios.com/x/stream/50541
#EXTINF:-1,Yerevan, Yerevan, Armenia - Yerevan Nights Radio
http://www.realradios.com/x/stream/46211
#EXTINF:-1,Boston, MA - Hairenik Radio
http://www.live365.com/play/acaa
#EXTINF:-1,International - AIM Radio
http://www.live365.com/play/aimmedia

So I can maintain this list separately and then import it into Banshee after upgrades. I wish, however, for Banshee to be more user-friendly with add/remove/update/export/import of on-line radio stations, as this way seems to be not very intuitive (at least to me).

Solution 2:

Install one of these plugins:

banshee-extension-liveradio - LiveRadio extension for Banshee

banshee-extension-radiostationfetcher - radio station fetcher extension for Banshee

Solution 3:

The default stations are:

80s

http://network.absoluteradio.co.uk/core/audio/ogg/live.pls?service=a8bb

http://network.absoluteradio.co.uk/core/audio/ogg/live.pls?service=a8

Classic Rock

http://network.absoluteradio.co.uk/core/audio/ogg/live.pls?service=vcbb

90s

http://network.absoluteradio.co.uk/core/audio/ogg/live.pls?service=a9bb

POP

http://network.absoluteradio.co.uk/core/audio/ogg/live.pls?service=vrbb

dabbl

http://network.absoluteradio.co.uk/core/audio/ogg/live.pls?service=albb

HBR1 – Dream Factory

http://ubuntu.hbr1.com:19800/ambient.ogg

Trance

http://ubuntu.hbr1.com:19800/trance.ogg

You can take any of these URLs and add them to Banshee. To do this start Banshee up and then follow the images below to add the stations you prefer.

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Solution 4:

The question is exporting a radio list not adding a station hand by hand.

So far there is no way to do this in any player banshee or rhythmbox

Solution 5:

You can use xmlstarlet to pull the essential data out of your XML file. See here for details:

http://steffen67.blogspot.com/2011/05/how-to-export-rhythmbox-radio-stations.html