Can the SoundBridge/SoundBridge Radio play Internet Radio?

What Internet Radio formats can SoundBridge/SoundBridge Radio play?

The following HTTP-streamed formats are currently supported:

• MP3 streams (usually ending in .pls or .m3u)
• WMA streams (usually ending in .asx). You will need the 2.5 software installed on the SoundBridge to play these back.

There is preliminary support for the following stream format on most SoundBridge models:

• AAC+ streams

The following stream formats are not currently supported:

• Real streams (usually ending in .ram)

https://web.archive.org/web/20230208194929/https://www.roku.com/products/soundbridge

SoundBridge Radio Static IP Assignment

telnet xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx 4444
ipset

• A for Automatic (DHCP)
• M for Manual – enter IP Address, Subnet Mask, Gateway, DNS Server 1 and 2

https://web.archive.org/web/20201024091154/https://soundbridge.roku.com/support/static_ip.php

This document explains the concept of a Preset, which was introduced in SoundBridge software version 2.5. It is intended to supplement the SoundBridge User’s Guide and the SoundBridge Radio User’s Guide, which may cover this information in greater detail. The latest versions of the User's Guides are available online here. //

https://web.archive.org/web/20101218051403/http://soundbridge.roku.com/support/preset.php

nginx-proxy-settings for a Soundbridge radio, that only supports http streams, but wants to play https streams too.

context: https://mind.work/2021/01/18/rescue-of-the-soundbridge-m1001/

To use it in your own projects, replace 'localhost' in 'mind_work/etc/nginx/conf.d/default.conf' with the hostname you actually use.

My name is Chris and I’ve built a public version of this https to http nginx proxy for the Roku Soundbridges. Hopefully this will help those having a tough time building their own. Would you like to help me test?

Prefix preset URL with: http://www.opieproxy.com/roku/

If you have a station using HTTPS like
https://desertmountainbroadcasting.streamguys1.com/KBOZ-AM
put in your preset
http://www.opieproxy.com/roku/desertmountainbroadcasting.streamguys1.com/KBOZ-AM

I may have the only Soundbridge left that can browse an internet database by genre and pick a station and actually listen to it. Not just Presets. Would you like to help test that too?
If you can redirect on your local network, the DNS entry for http://www.radioroku.com to http://www.opieproxy.com
or add a static DNS entry for http://www.radioroku.com to 44.227.162.229 you might be able to browse stations again.

nginx-proxy-settings for a Soundbridge radio, that only supports http streams, but wants to play https streams too.

context: https://mind.work/2021/01/18/rescue-of-the-soundbridge-m1001/

To use it in your own projects, replace 'localhost' in 'mind_work/etc/nginx/conf.d/default.conf' with the hostname you actually use.

Build: docker-compose build

Start: docker-compose up

The second problem can´t be fixed so easily. It has the effect that my Soundbrigde more and more is losing the ability to get in contact with radio-streams. It needs a while to identify this as a protocol issue. The Roku can work with a lot of protocols like WEP, WPA, AutoIP, DHCP, TCP, TELNET, HTTP and DRM – but not with HTTPS. And this is the point. Each time a radio station is switching from HTTP to HTTPS my ROKU is losing the capability to “receive” it. Time to put the M1001 into Garbage can? No! Time to call my friend and software developer Winfried Jacobs. I asked him for some MIND WORK to find a way for transforming HTTP into HTTPS requests. And here is what came to his mind while on a bike ride. //

https://github.com/mindwork-design/soundbridge-reverse-http-proxy

HTTPS for Roku SoundBridge M1001
The SoundBridge M1001 has a lot of protocols the device can work with. But being 15 years old, HTTPS is not implemented. So the radio is dying in slow motion - each time a station is changing from HTTP to HTTPS it passed away for owners of a SoundBridge. Until now. Cause I love my M1001 I made a workaround. So have a look at https://mind.work/2021/01/18/rescue-of-the-soundbridge-m1001/