Cannot stream *.pls radio stream to chromecast

Configuration
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Hey, good HA folks. I’m new to HA and to the community and I was hoping you could help me with a problem:
I am trying to get my local radio channel (living in Vienna) to stream to my chromecast. My configuration is a simple script at the moment:

sequence:
  - service: media_player.play_media
    data:
      entity_id: media_player.wohnzimmer
      media_content_type: music
      media_content_id: http://mp3stream2.apasf.apa.at/listen.pls

i can’t seem to make the .pls extension work. If I choose a random channel with a *.mp3 stream it works just fine. I’ve played around with different content types: channel, playlist, audio/mp3, audio/mpeg but these make no difference.

Thank you in advance for your help

2

I’m not 100% certain .pls is supported but there are a few other media_content_types you can try:

  • audio/mp4
  • audio/x-mpegurl

If neither of these work, you might find something useful in this thread.

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These content types don’t work, either.

I’ve read through the thread you mentioned but couldn’t find anything helpful. Apparently with Swedish stations one can rename the pls to mp3, but I don’t see that working here (tried it anyways).

Any other idea? This is my favorite station, and it would be so awesome, if it worked.

4

Any idea on how i could go on debugging this?

The log files don’t tell me anything about why this isn’t working. According to this page the content type is audio/mpeg, although this doesn’t work either.

When I try to open the pls file in the browser it logs:

Resource interpreted as Document but transferred with MIME type audio/x-scpls: http://mp3stream2.apasf.apa.at/listen.pls".

This content type doesn’t work either.

the listen.pls file is apparently nothing more than a playlist container that contains the following:

NumberOfEntries=3
File1=http://mp3stream3.apasf.apa.at:80/

This is confusing me, because the link doesn’t seem to lead to a mp3 stream, but to the shoutcast landing page, displaying the stream status. I can’t quite understand where the stream is actually coming from.

5

With some more google-smashing I did find the answer.

It is a peculiarity of shoutcast streams. The solution is to at ;/stream.mp3 to the end of the url:

http://mp3stream2.apasf.apa.at:80/;stream.mp3

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hey thanks a lot ! :+1: