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The Squeezebox supports MP3 streaming protocols, including Shoutcast, Icecast, Live365, and HTTP. Other streaming formats which do not use MP3 encoding (Real and WMA for example) are not currently supported.

To play an Internet Radio station, simply save an .m3u or .pls playlist file containing the URL of the station in your Saved Playlists folder. You can download these files by right-clicking on the links at most streaming radio web sites.

iTunes users can drag stations from the Radio section of iTunes to their Library or to a playlist. It will then be available in the Saved Playlists area in the corresponding iTunes section.

You can also create playlists for Internet radio stations yourself using a text editor. They're just small text files containing the URLs of one or more stations. Here's an example .pls file from www.live365.com for a station called Monkeyfunk:

    [playlist]
    numberofentries=1
    File1=http://62.49.59.50:8000
    Title1=Monkeyfunk
    Length1=-1
    Version=2

The SlimServer can also create and use M3U playlist files. M3U playlist files simply contain a list of one or more URLs or path names, each on its own line in the file.

One note: Internet radio stations often change their URL or go offline. If you are having problems with a station that worked at one time, visit their website again and see if you need to update your playlist file for that station.

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