Audio Addict Network Radio

The Audio Addict Network is a collection of premium internet radio stations, including:

Classical Radio, Radio Tunes, Rock Radio, Jazz Radio, Zen Radio, and DI.fm.

A paid premium account is required to access these radio stations. You only need to register on one of the sites, as the same username and password will grant access to all of them.

UMS automatically reads all available AudioAddict radio sites, their channels, and filters. The Favorites channel is also supported.

Configuration

To enable AudioAddict support, add the following lines to your UMS.conf file:

# TRUE = prefer European streaming server
audio_addict_europe = TRUE or FALSE

# Your username
audio_addict_user = USERNAME

# Your password
audio_addict_pass = PASSWORD

Location

The Audio Addict Radio Network folder is located within your media library. From there, you can browse and access all available stations directly.

Shows and episodes

Besides the live stations, DI.fm network offers an Events folder. It lists the upcoming shows, and for a show that has already been broadcast it also offers the recording, so you can listen to it afterwards.

Shows with a back catalogue get a folder of their own holding the older episodes. Some shows have hundreds of them, so the folder is split into smaller groups, each labelled with the episode numbers and dates it contains.

# How many episodes one group holds before it is split. Default 20, minimum 1.
audio_addict_episodes_per_container = 20

Building this list means asking the service for the events and for each show's episodes, which takes a moment. UMS remembers the answer so that browsing and starting playback do not each pay for it again:

# How long the show and episode lists are reused, in minutes.
# Default 60. Set to 0 to ask the service every time.
audio_addict_tree_cache_ttl_minutes = 60

A longer time makes browsing snappier, a shorter one picks up newly published episodes sooner. The addresses UMS receives stay valid far longer than the default hour, so there is no need to keep this value small.

Live titles

Audio Addict stations do not announce the current track inside the audio stream. UMS asks the service instead and delivers the result to your player, so you still see what is playing. This is described in Internet radio and live titles.

# Send live titles for Audio Addict stations. On by default.
audio_addict_icy_metadata = TRUE

Curated playlists

Curated playlists play one track after another from your account. When the playlist reaches its end, UMS can start over instead of stopping:

# Start a curated playlist again when it ends. Off by default.
audio_addict_playlist_loop = FALSE

All settings at a glance

Setting	Default	Purpose
audio_addict_user	—	Your account name
audio_addict_pass	—	Your password
audio_addict_europe	TRUE	Prefer the European streaming server
audio_addict_icy_metadata	TRUE	Send live titles to the player
audio_addict_episodes_per_container	20	Episodes per group before splitting
audio_addict_tree_cache_ttl_minutes	60	How long show and episode lists are reused
audio_addict_playlist_loop	FALSE	Repeat a curated playlist when it ends