Why do my Shoutcast favorites which I have saved from MyApps keep
breaking?
Does Shoutcast hate me? LOL.
Seriously, every couple of weeks seems like I lose my favorite. Keep
getting a ERROR: No Item found in Playlist message on screen. Have to
go back to MyApps and set it up again IF I can
Unfortunately, this is one of the stupid silly things that will always
keep Internet Radio out of the main stream.
Stations themselves change their stream URL's and/or stream aggregators
like ShoutCast change their URL for that stream (usually more often than
the station itself).
All on a whim,
Thanks for the reply.
I couldn't find it again searching Shoutcast. I've had it with them
anyway, that's ridiculous. However it was very easy to search by
bitrate there.
Found it searching Radiotime and am once again basking in 320 bliss.
We'll see how long it lasts.
No 'Internet Radio'
No, pay services don't seem to do this, that I am aware of.
I've had some Favorites links to Last.fm, Pandora, Napster, Slacker for
a long time and they always seem to work.
If you think ShoutCast is bad, try the free version of Live365, now
there is a streaming disaster! ;)
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toby10
I've had good luck finding streams on Shoutcast I like then googling to
find their website, where I can usually find their direct URL, then
input that into my favorites manually. No more broken faves for me.
Stupid shoutcast
Pandora favorites work great - never break, at least in my
