Ubuntu: How to play online radio stations in Exaile (open .pls playlists)

Posted on 20. Jul, 2009 by Dragos in Operating Systems, Ubuntu

How to play online radio stations in Exaile if the application won’t open the .pls file ?

Sometimes Exaile won’t open some .pls files. That is because it doesn’t recognize the format of some playlists, but that doesn’t mean that the playlist is incorrect.

In order to listen to online radio stations in Exaile download your playlist to your desktop. In my case I downloaded the playlist for the MegapolisFM radio station from http://78.24.50.58:8000/listen.pls. Save your playlist to your desktop.

Open your playlist with a text editor. For example use Gedit:

cd ~/Desktop gedit listen.pls

Replace listen.pls with the name of your own playlist.

Now copy the streaming url from the opened file. The url structure should be similar to the one in the image below:

Copy the url

Now switch to the Exaile window. Select the Radio tab from the left (like in the image below) and click on the add button:

Add new radio station

A window will pop up. Fill in the fields with your preferred name and description, but in the third field paste the URL you have just copied from the .pls file. Click Ok.

After this double click your just added radio station from the Saved stations drop down menu, select your radio station from the playlist, press the Play button.