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iTunes 9 "Ambient" radio streams gone?

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Mugwumper

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Original poster
Jan 19, 2008
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Temecula, CA
In previous versions, I found 1.FM's ChilloutLounge in the "Ambient" section
of Radio. in iTunes 9, there is no Ambient section at all! (there may be other
changes as well, but none stand out)

I've looked through all the sections, and only found one 1.FM stream called
"LuxuriaMusic" in the Eclectic section. (also looks like they re-ordered the
streams list, putting all the numbered streams after Z - they used to be
before A . . .)

So how do I find this ChilloutLounge stream again? How do we get streams
added to the big list?

Under "Advanced", there is an "Open Audio Stream", and I dutifully entered
"http://www.1.fm/Station/ChilloutLounge" - but nothing happens. Even
tried it without the "http://"

This style of music (while not for everyone's taste) is very nice to have in
the background while reading e-mail or whatever - and I'm really frustrated
not to have it. Maybe I'll go back to 8.2.1 . . . except I'll bet the "updating"
of the Library now makes it incompatible with v8. :^(

Thanks for any suggestions or leads . . .
 
Answered my own question . . . ;^)

It turns out that the correct URL for this 1.FM station is in fact
"http://sc8.1.fm:7008" not "www.1.fm/station/ChilloutLounge".

I found this by going to the 1.FM site, finding the station, and clicking on
"home" and then letting iTunes open the stream path. However, I did not
see this entry in my Library (with 9540 songs) because it was buried in all
the other numerical titles - and I wasn't expecting it there, rather I figured
it would have been added to the Radio area. Silly me . . . ;^)

In any event, I'm happy to have the station, but not sure I like that it's part
of the Library - I'll guess I'll just have to get used to it.
 
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