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 HOW TO: make an iRadio Station list
 name  Andrew McLea        
 model  MG-35NDAS
A question was asked as to how new iRadio stations can be added. Your MG-350HD must have a hard drive.

1 - Make sure you can connect to your MG-350HD using NDAS so it looks like another drive on your PC. (Or plug it into your USB port so you can save files to it)


2 - Make a folder called 'iradio' in the root of the hard drive of the MG-350HD.


3 - With notepad in Windows copy and paste the following lines:

[playlist]
NumberOfEntries=1

File1=http://icecast.commedia.org.uk:8000/wfm
Title1=Wythenshawe Radio
Length1=-1

4 - Save this file into the iradio folder on your MG-350HD as any filename but with the extension .pls. For example:

myStations.pls

5 - With the remote, select iradio on the MG-350HD and then select the icon that has the filename "myStations", or the name you used. You will now see thw play list on the MG-350HD in the right hand window.

6 - You can also turn off the other radio stations. Go into Setup on the MG-350 and turn off the ShoutCast listings. Only the stations (playlists) that you have saved as .pls files will be displayed.

7 - To add another station to that file simply append more URLs like this fictitious 2nd station:


[playlist]
NumberOfEntries=2

File1=http://icecast.commedia.org.uk:8000/wfm
Title1=Wythenshawe Radio
Length1=-1

File2=http://somewhereOnTheWeb.com/stream
Title2=Another Radio Station
Length2=-1

8 - So you might have a .pls file called Rock.pls another called Jazz.pls another called USA.pls etc. These playlist files can have almost as many stations as you like.

9 - There is a bug in the current 1.1.1 beta 5 firmware. Save your file twice otherwise it will not display. It's not that you need two files the same, it's just that the MG-350HD will only list the files if there is more than one. The files of course can be completely different, there just needs to be more than one in the iradio folder.