Access Streaming Music in Front Row

In response to vectorelement:
How to publish music stored on an iPod, from iTunes?
http://projects.tynsoe.org/en/musicpublisher/

I've done this and use my XBox to listen to streamed music, by having a Playlist called Radio Stations. And I put an asterix at the beginning of the name so that it's at the top of the list and easy to find.

This is the one feature thats preventing me from ordering my Apple TV... I want to make sure streaming radio is supported (somehow).

Nice tip indeed, but how do you get the other streamed radio stations to play in iTunes?

Wow, I've been doing this one for some time. I never realized it was not common knowledge.

It's not perfect, though. My playlist name keeps getting replaced with the fairly long ID string sent in the stream. Afterwards I can't tell the bit rate from the name anymore. Also, the ID string does not fit as well into the "Now Playing" page in FrontRow.

Apple, would it hurt so much to make the "Radio" list show up in FrontRow? This has been an obvious missing feature in 3 versions of FR, and who nows how many iTunes versions.

It'd be great if Front Row could access music on an iPod, for those of us who carry them around with our Mactops.

You can do something similar with movies that aren't in iTunes or are stored on an external drive by placing an alias to whatever folder you have the movie(s) stored in within the Movies folder and Front Row will treat the alias like a folder which will then allow you to watch your favorite .avi, .mov, or whatever in Front Row--mind you, for some movie files (usually .avi files) you'll need the codecs to play the movies just like you would in QuickTime.

-Mike

http://www.shoutcast.com/

Keep in mind Shoutcast radio streams work great on iTunes, too. You should probably add this to the post.