addition of radio-browser.info?

[Nutul]

Is there a license for the radio-browser API?

AFAICT no, but you're requested, though, to send in some events, such as "clicks" in order to keep the stats going.

[DRONE7]

Exactly. All you have to do is....
Anyway, I look forward to seeing what you come up with.

You know "it's not gonna be days", right...?

Halve your expectations and include Nights too :-)

[Raitsa]

Hifiberry64 alpha 8 now offers radiobrowser support.

[Tim Curtis]

Radio aggregators are just not my thing. Most insert pre-roll and post-roll Ads for the "best Toilet" or whatever. Curated stations are the way to go. No Ads just great music :-)

[Raitsa]

Here what the radio-browser.info search now looks like in Hifiberry:

Search for almost 50 000 web radio stations by name:


Lets try a search with the word soma:


And the results for the soma search:


And search results for the word yle:


As you can see, you can find any web radio station easily, as long as you know some letters about its name.
And this makes adding new stations to your favourites very easy.

It is not yet possible in Hifiberry to search with tags, language, country or genre. 
But those search terms do work on the Radio-browser.info webpage search very well.

[Raitsa]

Made a search with the word flac to find some high quality streams.
Very useful and handy.

[Tim Curtis]

Not very encouraging. The station logos are wrong or missing and very poor quality, and no useful metadata.
I think I'll pass on this one.

[Raitsa]

Very disappointed to hear that.

The things you critisize are features that the stations themselves broadcast, we listeners have no say in those.

With almost 50 000 free web radio stations around the world now available, quality varies in all regards, that is a given.
But this service sure makes it easy to find and add to our favourites the stations we personally prefer.

If a user adds a new station to the radiobrowser worldwide database, he can only add a webpage favicon.
Radiobrowser is like the wiki for web radio stations, open source and free for all.

Here anyone can add a new/missing web radio station to the database:
https://www.radio-browser.info/add

[the_bertrum]

The things you critisize are features that the stations themselves broadcast, we listeners have no say in those.

Which is part of the point, the stations that make it into the moOde list are ones that offer good metadata/images/content and so on.  It is a curated list of high quality, not just a catch all list of everything on the internet.

But this service sure makes it easy to find and add to our favourites the stations we personally prefer.

And then having found those stations, it's also easy to copy that URL and a nice picture into the moOde stations.

Perhaps if someone were to take the radiobrowser API and create an interface that returns search results and offers a "add to moOde" button, that could be an acceptable half-way house.  It's quite clear that Tim won't be the developer though, but since the code is all there its free for anyone else to work on.

[Nutul]

Indeed, it takes about 20 seconds to add a new radio station in moOde. Plus some more to find a nice icon for it.