Add-on:Radio

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Radio
http://mirrors.xbmc.org/addons/eden/plugin.audio.radio_de/icon.png

See this add-on on the kodi.tv showcase

Author: Tristan Fischer ([email protected])

Type: Music/Audio
Repo: Kodi.tv repo v21
Kodi.tv repo v20
Kodi.tv repo v19

Summary: Access >4000 radio broadcasts
Home icon grey.png   ▶ Add-ons ▶ Radio

Music plugin to access over 4000 international radio broadcasts from rad.io, radio.de and radio.fr
Currently features

- English, german and french translated

- Browse stations by location, genre, topic, country, city and language

- Search for stations

- 115 genres, 59 topics, 94 countrys, 1010 citys, 63 languages

Installing

This add-on is installed from the Add-on browser located in Kodi as follows:

  1. Settings
  2. Add-ons
  3. Install from repository
  4. Music Add-ons
  5. Radio
  6. Install


General Info

It is a music plugin to provide quick access to more than 4000 international radio broadcasts (powered by the websites http://www.rad.io (English), http://www.radio.de (German) and http://www.radio.fr (French)). Please note that there also official broadcasters present, not just "only internet radio stations".

You can browse the stations via 115 genres, 59 topics, 94 countries, 1010 cities or 63 languages (all translated to English, German and French).

Features

  • Editorials Recommendations
  • Top 100 Stations
  • Browse by genre
  • Browse by topic
  • Browse by country
  • Browse by city
  • Browse by language
  • Local Stations
  • Search for Station
  • My Stations

My Stations

You can add every Station to the list of your favorites by using the context-menu (c on keyboard) and choosing "Add to My Stations". All stations on your My Stations-List are directly accessible via the root entry "My Stations" of the plugin.

Code

If you are interested in the Code or want to contribute (translations are always welcome) please have a look to its github page: https://github.com/dersphere/plugin.audio.radio_de

Changelog

1.0.6 (05.03.2012)
   - Fixed: error if a station was added to the list of mystations but has become unavailable
   - Improved error catching
   - Improved: Show bitrate in "kbit/s", not "B"

1.0.5 (26.02.2012)
   - Fixed .m3u playlists with empty lines (thx to Malte_Schroeder)

1.0.4 (18.02.2012)
   - Fixed python <2.5 error
   - Added french translation (thx to stombi)

1.0.3 (07.02.2012)
   - added workaround for streams with .m3u and .pls files
   - changed: show full context menu

1.0.2 (29.01.2012)
   - Fix error with UTF-8 characters in search string

1.0.1 (13.01.2012)
   - Initial Release

Getting help

If you have found a bug or have ideas how to improve it just reply to its thread: http://forum.xbmc.org/showthread.php?t=119362