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yossile
Asked: 2012-03-14 01:58:40 +0800 CST

Importing RadioTray radio stations into Rhythmbox

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RadioTray icon applet is pretty neat and comes with a variety of predefined radio stations ordered by categories. To those I also added some additional local (Israeli) radio stations and ended up with few dozen.

In preparation for the coming Precise and the need to have one player for all, I would like to migrate this list to Rhythmbox.

The only thing I figured out so far is that the radio stations of Radio Tray are being kept in an XML file at @HOME/.local/share/radiotray/bookmarks.xml.

Any ideas how to import RadioTray stations into Rhythmbox?

rhythmbox internet-radio

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  1. Best Answer

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    The image shows the default RadioTray radio stations imported into Rhythmbox

    How did I do that?

    RadioTray holds its radio-stations in an XML file located in:

    ~/.local/share/radiotray/bookmarks.xml

    Rhythmbox holds all of its data similarly in an XML file located in:

    ~/.local/share/rhythmbox/rhythmdb.xml

    If you examine both files its pretty obvious that the XML format (its defined structure) is very different.

    One solution is to transform the Radiotray XML format to something that Rhythmbox can understand.

    XSLT

    You can use the structured XML translation language XSLT to perform this conversion.

    To install:

    sudo apt-get install python-4suite-xml

    Next copy the contents below into a new gedit file

    Save in a file (create the folder xml if necessary) called ~/xml/style

    Next, copy the RadioTray XML file to the same folder ~/xml

    Finally, copy the Rhythmbox XML file to the same folder ~/xml

    Drop to a terminal:

    cd ~/xml
4xslt bookmarks.xml style > test.xml

    This will reformat the RadioTray into the XML that can be read by RhythmBox

    Next we need to add this new data to Rhythmbox.

    Now open both test.xml and rhythmdb.xml

    Copy the contents of test.xml EXCEPT for the first line into the rhythmdb.xml file. Note - you paste the contents at the end of the file i.e.

    </entry>

*****paste test.xml here*****

</rhythmdb>

    Save.

    Backup the old rhythmdb.xml file and then copy over the new rhythmdb.xml file.

    Fire up Rhythmbox

    <?xml version="1.0" encoding="ISO-8859-1"?>
<xsl:stylesheet version="1.0" xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform">

<xsl:template match="/">

      <xsl:for-each select="bookmarks/group/group/bookmark">
      <entry type="iradio">
        <title><xsl:value-of select="@name"/></title>
        <genre><xsl:value-of select="translate(../@name,'','')"/></genre>
        <artist></artist>
        <album></album>
    <location><xsl:value-of select="@url"/></location>
        <date>0</date>
        <media-type>application/octet-stream</media-type>
      </entry>
      </xsl:for-each>

</xsl:template>
</xsl:stylesheet>
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  2. Well, it is possible. But, it's not going to be a quick nor fun process.

    You'll want to open bookmarks.xml with any program you want (I personally would use gedit) and open Rhythmbox as well. With Rhythmbox open, you'll want to right click "Radio" on the left panel and "New Internet Radio Station". You'll want to copy and paste the url of every radio station that you want to put into Rhythmbox. Then, you can rename them whatever you want to.

    You'll have to do this for every one of the urls. It won't take too long, but it's tedious. :(

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