Select a radio stream in iTunes and drag it onto the stream table in RadioLover. At the moment, you can only drag one stream at a time.
You can drag'n'drop web links to radio stations, straight into RadioLover. Valid web links typically end with the extension .pls or .m3u.
Links ending in .pls point to playlists, which typically contain a list of web addresses - which change often - for the radio station. Storing the .pls web address in RadioLover means that each time you record, RadioLover loads the playlist and finds out the current web address for the radio station. If you were to store the actual IP address of a radio station stream, you would find that it would be out of date very soon.
Links ending in .m3u typically point to a real playlist which contains the actual web address of a list of MP3 songs, and is often used as a playlist for an album.
Below are examples of drag'n'drop from two popular web-sites.
Shoutcast.com is a great site for a lot of high quality streams. Some of the streams are also found in the iTunes radio tuner.
Live365 offers free and fee-paying members access to a wide variety of streams. You can even sign up with Live365 to run your radio station.
Figure 4.3. Drag and drop from Live365, via iTunes
Use iTunes to get the web address before dragging it into RadioLover
When you click on a Live365 station on a web page, or from the Live365 site, iTunes should automatically start playing the radio station. Locate the radio station entry in iTunes Library playlist and drag it into RadioLover.
![[Note]](images/note.png) | Note |
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| It is not possible to split Live365 streams by song as Live365 keeps the track information private for their own web interface, and their own player Radio365. Even when listening with iTunes, the iTunes display window will show the radio station name, and web address, but not the track information. | |
If your web browser has not been set up to automatically launch streams, often when you click on a link to a radio station, a file is saved to your disk. These files will be named after the link, and will end with .pls or .m3u. You can drag .pls files straight into RadioLover. Dragging .m3u files will have no effect as they do not contain web addresses to radio stations, but are a list of MP3 web addresses.