Radio Browser - how to use?

Third party integrations
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Where did you find all the media_content information in the data section?

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Yes, that is the question, @terryhonn : Where do you get the content_id from?

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I went through the Automations UI and created a new automation, selected the trigger, chose Play Media for the Action, chose my media player from the list, clicked on the big Pick Media + button, chose a random radio station from the media browser radio station list. Once I confirmed the station played as I wanted, I clicked on the hamburger menu at the upper right of the Automation editor and selected Edit in YAML, copied the yaml there and that’s what I pasted in my earlier response.

Let me know if you need screenshots.

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Ah, now I got it!

My mistake was to use the run-service-function, where I need to now the content-ID.

But instead I have to use the play-media-action.

Thanks a lot!

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Hi, sorry but how did you find the link?

media_content_id: media-source://radio_browser/4ed4b346-e81b-4570-adbe-8e62ae7a171a
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In dev tools/states while playing the station.

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I find it easier to do through the website radio-browser.info - go find your radio there, and click on it, in the url you will get the content id , for example:

https://www.radio-browser.info/history/9617a958-0601-11e8-ae97-52543be04c81
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Yes, thanks, but at the moment it doesn’t work with browser-mod :unamused:

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Thanks, this worked for me. I needed to use the stationuuid

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I Found a solution, in a button!

Play radio via Home Assistant - Rouwette.com

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Play radio via Home Assistant - Rouwette.com

This may help :slight_smile:
Easy way to find content id is via an Automation
And play it with a button

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been trying for 3 days to get this to work. i keep getting Media player does not support browsing media when i try to create an automation to play a radio station with radio browser

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Crystal ball broken.

To get help you need to post your automation and your logs.

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From what I read online, I do not think you can use alexa as a media player for this.
If I use another media player, it does work

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To get help you need to post your automation and your logs.

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Try another web browser, I have same issue with microsoft EDGE but work fine under Chrome and Firefox

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same to me. Media player does not support browsing media\Odtwarzacz nie obsługuje przeglądania multimediów

tried on FF, Chrome and Edge

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I was struggling with this for a long time as well, but now I have at least something working!

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Here’s the code (this needs mini-media-player from HACS):

entities:
  - entity: media_player.m5stack_atom_echo_888398_m5stack_atom_echo_888398
    icon: mdi:radio
    min_volume: 5
    name: Kitchen audio
    type: custom:mini-media-player
    info: scroll
    source: full
    hide:
      volume: false
      source: false
      power_state: true
      name: false
      icon: true
      info: false
    shortcuts:
      columns: 4
      buttons:
        - name: BBC World
          image: >-
            https://static.wikia.nocookie.net/tvfanon6528/images/3/36/BBC_World_News_(2022-.n.v.).png/revision/latest?cb=20220426080337
          type: playlist
          id: media-source://radio_browser/98adecf7-2683-4408-9be7-02d3f9098eb8
        - name: M1+
          image: >-
            http://www.pliusas.fm/wp-content/uploads/cropped-Pliuso_fav-192x192.jpg
          type: playlist
          id: media-source://radio_browser/9612c706-0601-11e8-ae97-52543be04c81
        - name: M1
          image: http://www.m-1.fm/bitrix/templates/m1/images/500x500.jpg
          type: playlist
          id: media-source://radio_browser/4a097926-fed9-4d61-8ed0-bc8fcf66df83
          [...]
show_header_toggle: false
type: entities

To get the content code like “4a097926-fed9-4d61-8ed0-bc8fcf66df83”, I go to https://www.radio-browser.info/ and find the station I like, open it, and then copy the code from URL.
It’s a tedious manual work, and the site is very slow and unresponsive at the time of writing, but I forced myself through.

Problem: it does not show if and what is playing now.

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This is the radio stations URLs resource that I use. It is in Dutch (that I speak) but is easy enough for all to use.

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I used to use Sonos favorites in order to play my favorite radio stations. Now I have switched to Radio Browser for better flexibility. But this also resulted into the same problem:

It is a real pity that I cannot see the station’s name and logo anymore (e.g. in the excellent Sonos Card)! :frowning:

According to the above mentioned site (thank you @LimboIvo) it should be possible to add title and thumbnail as metadata just like this:

  - service: media_player.play_media
    target:
      entity_id: media_player.living_room
    data:
      media_content_id: media-source://radio_browser/96126f56-0601-11e8-ae97-52543be04c81
      media_content_type: audio/mpeg
    metadata:
      title: NPO Radio 1
      thumbnail: >-
        https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/da/NPO_Radio_1_logo_2014.svg/640px-NPO_Radio_1_logo_2014.svg.png
      media_class: music

In my case, it makes no difference whether I add those metadata or not. Has anyone managed to accomplish this? :pray:

Edit: Please also see stale GitHub issue:

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