I like to secure the actual URL of radio streams that I occasionally listen to while I work. I despise IHEART Radio and the ads, so it's great when I can "snoop" the URL, and play it directly through a browser. One such station based in Washington DC is WMAL-FM. It's direct stream, hidden from us and then split up in 10-second different URL chunks by IHEART, is
https://16933.live.streamtheworld.com/WMALFMAAC.aacI was careful to insure that the proper aac codec is installed, yet JRiver MC28 DOWNLOADS the stream in a continually enlarging file rather than streaming it like the other links provided (BBC World Service and others under "Streaming."). Is there a way within JRiver to pipe the stream
properly to my soundcard rather than downloading it silently to some temp file? The .AAC codec allows this stream to play well on VLC and all browsers, so I'd expect JRiver to make quick work of it. But sadly, it will not. Any ideas or critiques would be appreciated.
(Using Wireguard, I discovered that IHeart
and TuneIN, in an effort to force you to listen to their ads, every 10-seconds, throws you from one URL to another, each plays for 10-seconds until you are seamlessly thrown to the next 10-second URL etc., etc. so that only it's ad-wracked players can knit the 10 second segments back together in real time + a few seconds. If you try to snoop the IP address of the server stream, you only get 10 second chunks. Really sneaky.)
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Topic: Playing radio stations using JRiver MC28: It downloads .aac files, won't stream. (Read 976 times)