Other Webradio for El Capitan?

[HoreaG]

I am looking for an app to listen to webradio stations. On Win there is nothing better than Rarma Radio, too bad the author of it is not willing to release it for Mac. (It can be made to run under Wine but not always.) On High Sierra I am runnig the mytune app, as older versions of it still run under that OS. It is not perfect, but I found nothing better.

For El Capitan I found nothing.
Sure, websites (like radio.garden) work, but I want a separate app.

 

[wicknix]

For Pandora radio there is this: https://hermesapp.org/

Also doesn’t iTunes still function on 10.11? It should have streaming radio stations built in.

 

[HoreaG]

For Pandora radio there is this: https://hermesapp.org/

Also doesn’t iTunes still function on 10.11? It should have streaming radio stations built in.

It has iTunes but Apple removed the stations. You can listen to stations if you provide a link to them one by one.

I downloaded Hermes and it ask me to provide an email adress and password to sign up in Pandora. I have no clue what Pandora is. (Tried to access pandora.com but it says it is not avaible in my region. Seems to be something limited to the USA.)

 

[olavsu1]

VLC, if you know the URLs of your favorite stations or have their .pls files.

 

[HoreaG]

VLC, if you know the URLs of your favorite stations or have their .pls files.

I know the VLC method, but I want a webradio app exactly for the reason that they come with extensive lists of stations.

 

[olavsu1]

sorry no one webradio software support that old OS

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[HoreaG]

sorry no one webradio software support that old OS

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Thank you for the link. Maybe I will find at least for my newer OS running Macs a player comparable to Rarma.
I wonder why older MacOS are not supported. It is not that webradio apps would use some new technology.

 

[olavsu1]

you can only compile it from source.

List of applications/Multimedia - ArchWiki

and.... maybe homebrew have their mac versions...

 

[HoreaG]

The problem solved as follows: As I bought a MBP mid 2012 to which I installed Catalina I looked out for a copy of myTuner Radio, knowing with that new OS it will work for sure. Well, you can not download it from their website anymore and the different more or less legal repositories have versions that need you to disable SIP. So I renounced the idea, until I saw the Appstore remembered I downloaded this app in 2022 and offers me to redownload it to my new laptop. Did so, works perfectly, no SIP disabling necessary.
Than I thought I could try the same with the old laptop (MBP 2009) and there it also works, under El Capitan. Perfect.

Version is 2.1 (see screenshot). How can I archive it, because I dont trust the Appstore to hold it for me undefinitively?

 

[Nguyen Duc Hieu]

The problem solved as follows: As I bought a MBP mid 2012 to which I installed Catalina I looked out for a copy of myTuner Radio, knowing with that new OS it will work for sure. Well, you can not download it from their website anymore and the different more or less legal repositories have versions that need you to disable SIP. So I renounced the idea, until I saw the Appstore remembered I downloaded this app in 2022 and offers me to redownload it to my new laptop. Did so, works perfectly, no SIP disabling necessary.
Than I thought I could try the same with the old laptop (MBP 2009) and there it also works, under El Capitan. Perfect.

Version is 2.1 (see screenshot). How can I archive it, because I dont trust the Appstore to hold it for me undefinitively?

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1 option is to back-up the whole volume to a DMG file, it will cost you several dozen GBs, but easier to do than backing up a single application.

Another option is to google for it from the internet. You will be able to download a dmg file, perhaps.
I found 1 here but it cost 10$ for MacOS

myTuner Radio Pro for Windows Pc & Mac: Free Download (2023) - Pcmacstore.com

myTuner Radio Pro Download and Install for your computer - on Windows PC 10, Windows 11 or Windows 7 and Macintosh macOS 10 X, Mac 12 and above, 32/64-bit processor, we have you covered

pcmacstore.com

 

[HoreaG]

Another option is to google for it from the internet. You will be able to download a dmg file, perhaps.
I found 1 here but it cost 10$ for MacOS

myTuner Radio Pro for Windows Pc & Mac: Free Download (2023) - Pcmacstore.com

myTuner Radio Pro Download and Install for your computer - on Windows PC 10, Windows 11 or Windows 7 and Macintosh macOS 10 X, Mac 12 and above, 32/64-bit processor, we have you covered

pcmacstore.com

Unfortunately that version too ask me to disable SIP.
I do not understand the mechanisms Apple implemented, why the download from the Apple store (being also 2.1) does not ask for disabling SIP.

 

[Certificate of Excellence]

I didn’t know either so I asked the great google and its AI came back with this:

A radio app might require you to disable SIP (System Integrity Protection) on macOS if it needs to access low-level system components or perform actions that would normally be restricted. This is because SIP is designed to protect the system by preventing modifications to protected files and folders, even by root users. Disabling SIP allows the app to bypass these security measures, which can be necessary for certain types of software
development or to access specific features.

So assuming this is correct, the newer version wants to access a protected file system or component that Apple defines as restricted.

 

[HoreaG]

So assuming this is correct, the newer version wants to access a protected file system or component that Apple defines as restricted.

That I could understand, but it is the same version 2.1 of the program. If I install it from the AppStore it simply runs, if I download from another source (even from the website of the producer) and want to install it asks me to disable SIP.

 

[Certificate of Excellence]

Same app version, different updated installer maybe?

Interesting observation for sure

 

[Adora]

I always used that one about 10 years ago:

SonicWeb | Internet Radio Player and Recorder | Listen to and record free Internet Radio

SonicWeb | Internet Radio Player and Recorder | Listen to and record free Internet Radio

www.sonicweb-radio.com

It's not free but not expensive and there is a free trial. Don't know if it still supports El Capitan. And there never was a paid upgrade.