m3u8 radio stream doesn't play.. or maybe it never could...

[Rob-kayak]

first off thanks again Dr. O...

build 1.0.12.5586  May 2020
 (apologies if a current version has addressed this situation)

usually I would dissect an m3u8 file radio stream  and get the
"pure"   url.

Windows 10 plays ok with VLC or with Firefox (+ an extension)
Radio audio stream m3u8

The previous url.....
....worked fine for a couple of years.
http://ais-sa1.streamon.fm/7869_96k.aac

but as they have been having problems with the stream they changed to below.

Current url (VLC or Firefox)
https://ais-sa1.streamon.fm:443/7869_96k.aac/playlist.m3u8

as you may surmise  (dissecting the m3u8 file and viewing the stream with Firefox "Inspect" + "Network"  ) it is loading chunks of
the stream one at a time... and pushing a new m3u8 file for the next .acc "chunk".

Apologies if this has been asked or discussed ( i did do a search ).

thanks again.

[dro]

It's a dash/hls based stream which isn't something that wacup currently supports. For now I only handle basic http streams like you were previously using. As for still using 1.0.12.5586 I assume you've got your reasons for doing so but that's essentially so far behind I can't support it.

[mltgames]

I use https://github.com/massej/RadioHLSConverter.backend.serverless as a proxy.

Basically it convert the m3u8 (HLS radio stream) to the basic http streams and allow WACUP to work with the new radio format while keeping the audio quality!