I wanted to know where can I find more info about Mycroft Radio.
Basically I want to know what all stations are available. I can see links to radios at https://www.radio-browser.info/ but I don’t think all these stations are available, Or are they?
From what I can tell, for the Radio skill, you can request music from any one of these tags, https://www.radio-browser.info/tags. Where the tags are the genres.
The skill seems to only support: play [genre]
Where play [station] or play [artist] rarely works form me. And getting a list of stations and/or artists that work will require playing around with the radio-browser.info API.
The GitHub repo for the Radio Skill explains as much:
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That makes sense.
I kept trying to play [station], tags definitely don’t include all stations listed as far as I can see.
Hopefully there is an update for playing particular station, I’m not sure if artist can be supported in same way but that would be good as well.
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Hey there, thanks for starting the conversation on this. I think there’s a lot of potential for this Skill to improve.
I’ve bumped it over to the feature request category so that others can vote it up if they want it prioritized.
A small clarification the version running on the Mark II is here:
There are a few ways that the Skill reduces the list of stations. Stations found to be bad should get skipped automatically (
), and recently we added in a simple language filter. By default it will only return English language stations, but this can be changed in your Skill settings either to a different language, or to have no preference.
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I have also found that “Play radio [city]” works pretty consistently, creating a genre from the city tag. There is then a list of from one to several stations that can be scrolled through using the “next/last” buttons (look like |< or >| ). I have no idea how it decides the number of stations or who makes the cut, but I’m guessing there’s a cutoff threshold for “clicks”
A good feature to add, as a work around for STT parsing of station names, would be to allow presets (eg., “Mycroft play radio preset [#]”) You could set up the presets in the skill configuration, where you attach the “name” field from the desired station as listed on radio-browser.info to your preset number.
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Either my Mark II doesn’t support Play radio [city] or there are specific cities supported by it.
Tried few cities and they didn’t work
Possibly I jumped to a conclusion with n=3. Nashville and Austin both worked, then I tried Charleston, and when that worked, I figured it was a general thing. Maybe check those out on yours just to see if it’s a version thing or something?
radio Austin worked so I guess selective cities.
I tried “radio ga ga” (trying to play off a queen album).
Didn’t work, understandably 
Maybe another work around would be to add a unique (fictional?) city tag to a station of interest (that doesn’t already have one), and upvote it until it appears when you request radio from that city 
I guess you could do that with genre too, but I imagine most stations are already given a genre.
can confirm - bunch of stations it wont find
I manually went through the genres / categories / “channels” (a particularly problematic word to describe this – how about let’s change this) I was getting and wrote them down, and here’s what I got. A couple I’m not sure of I marked with a “?”.
- Jazz
- Dance
- Musica
- Oldis
- 80s
- Top 40
- Electronica (?)
- Pop
- News
- Classical
- Talk
- Funk (?)
- Country
- House
- Estacion
- Public
- FM
- Christmas
- Radio drama
- News
- Mexican Rock(?)
- Classical
- Entreteminiento
- Hits
- Classic Rock
- Mexico
- Moi Merino
- Folk
- Adult Contemporary (?)
- Musica Espanol
- Local News
- Country
- Community
- Latinamerica
- Alternative
- Classic Hits
- House
- Epañol
- Greek
- Pop Rock
- Musica Pop
- Regional Mexico
- Musica
- 70s
- Christian
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