Hello,

please what is the easiest linux way to get an online radio stream URL out of website player like:

http://listen.play.cz/player.html?sh...latka&v=%27+ts

They may support: Flash, Silverlight, HTML5 audio.
wma, mp3, aac

my web browser dont have any flash technologies and i dont wish to use any. also source code of the website dont show anything

There a quite neat way to stream right from command line:

(above mentioned is another radio, i still dont know how to discover that stream URL/IP from linux)

nothing to do with networking (not Linux by all accounts). Moved to Linux - Newbie.

Personally I'd use wireshark and watch the web traffic being requested. If you don't have flash though, I'd presume it never even gets the data about what to stream.

You should realize that those pages are not designed fur us geeks to extract the URL. When we do and play trough mplayer you miss all those nice advertisements. If you don't look at the advertisements you are not entitled to listen to the music. Finding the URL requires some hacking. Not all sites are equal, and many have a different way to embed the URL.

Now this station plays my top favorite exercising music, so I put in the effort to find the URL for my own benefit.

This time I right-clicked on the Play button and asked for inspect element. (This was opera, but I think the menu item is the same in Firefox). This doesn't show the page source as it is downloaded (which you see with View Source). Instead it shows exactly what is being executed by the browser engine.

In this case, it was Flash Player, playing this URL:
http://icecast5.play.cz/radio-zlatka128.mp3

It plays wonderfully in mplayer!

jlinkels

if the program content requires flash to play (because the file is embedded into flash), then I guess it's quite difficult to have a workaround to play the content without flash.

Why do you think so?

jlinkels