This web site has existed in its current form for roughly 10 years. One of my guiding principles is that I only publish the same streaming player links that can be found if you follow the link and visit the station’s own web site. Another guiding principle is I don’t list links to stations or streaming providers that object to the links appearing here.
You might point out that it would be so much more useful if the web site showed the “raw” streaming URL that allows you to directly launch streams – bypassing tracking, advertisements and allow streaming to devices without browsers (like WiFi radios)
There are web sites that do that – I’m not going to assist you in finding them, and don’t even think of posting that information here.
Why am I being such a wimp? This web site has no advertisements and no revenue by design. ASCAP, BMI, Soundexchange and big radio companies have lawyers. My budget to fight legal battles is $0.00. Over the years, the web sites that facilitate bypassing the players and the intellectual property rights of the stream owners vanish quickly for good reasons. I’m not a 12 year old who can plead innocence and I live in the United States, subject to the laws of this country.
I have no desire to be anything but cooperative with the people who own the rights and whose service depends on generating revenue from their player. If you have the technical skills to reverse engineer a player and get what you want, more power to you – but I won’t provide information and this blog’s purpose does not including swapping tips of this type
One company that presents streams, that you had mentioned before, just got $25M last week and a new leader. http://gigaom.com/2013/05/29/tunein-funding/
The article says they have deals with several auto manufactures and I know they have a deal with Logitech for the search behind their internet radios.
vtuner.com and reciva.com are the competing vendors that supply similar searches for other internet radio manufactures but they carry far fewer stations than tunein.com