How To Get Direct Stream Link To Any Online Radio Station

2024 Author: Malcolm Clapton | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-17 03:44

There are thousands of online stations on the Internet that broadcast a wide variety of music around the clock. You can listen to them directly on the corresponding sites or special directories such as Shoutcast or TuneIn, but it is much more convenient to do this in a regular desktop player. Firstly, it allows you to create lists by genre or mood from different stations, and secondly, some players can also record live broadcast.

Many channels directly on their sites provide links for playback in the player, but not all. And this is quite understandable, the creators of the site do not want to let you go from their site in order to show you more ads. You can, of course, spy on the required link in the source code, but sometimes it is so cleverly hidden that it can be difficult for a person without knowledge of HTML to figure it out. Therefore, we want to introduce you to an easy way to get the stream address of almost any station.

For Google Chrome users

1. Open the station page in your browser.

2. Press F12. The developer toolbar opens.

3. Reload the page, then turn on playback.

4. In the panel open at the bottom, go to the Network tab and look for the longest connection in the Timeline column.

5. Right-click on the link and copy it to the clipboard.

Here I must say that there are different options and sometimes the resulting link needs to be slightly changed. For example, in the given case, it has the form https://pub5.sky.fm/sky_tophits_aacplus?type=.flv and will not work. But if you remove her tail, after the question mark inclusive, then everything will play. So you have to experiment.

For Firefox users

If you use this wonderful browser, then you probably have the Adblock Plus extension installed. And if not yet, then be sure to install it, because it not only cuts ads perfectly, but also helps us find the right link to music.

1. Open the station site in Mozilla Firefox.

2. Press the keyboard shortcut CTRL + SHIFT + V after which a list of elements of the viewed page opens.

3. In this table, pay attention to the Type column and find the Object or Object Request value in it.

4. Often there are several such records, so empirically we find a suitable one. In the case shown in the screenshot, we see a link already familiar from the description above, which must be shortened in the same way.

I still don't play, what's the matter?

Most likely you came across a radio station that determines how you connect to its channel - through a browser or simply from a player and blocks such a connection.

In this case, you will have to use the wonderful AIMP audio player, which can disguise itself as a browser. To do this, in the program settings (Settings -> Playback -> Connection settings -> User-Agent) enter Mozilla / 5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US) and everything should work.

Enjoy your listening!