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TiVo Trick: Stream Internet Radio to Your Entertainment System!

Working from home today, and listening to some nice european trance in the background… through my entertainment system. How?

  1. Find a nice internet radio stream in iTunes
  2. Add the stream to a playlist. This is generally not useful, as the stream never "ends", so your playlist will never go to the "next" song. Be patient.
  3. Install the TiVo Desktop software on your Mac.
  4. Use the TiVo Desktop preference pane to tell your Mac to share your internet radio playlist.
  5. In the TiVo, go to Music and Photos > (your computer) > (your playlist) > (your stream)
  6. Play!

My name is Steve Ivy and I write about technology, the open web, social software, and general nerdity on monkinetic.com. You should follow me on Twitter or subscribe to this blog if you like what you're reading. I spend my days hacking Movable Type, python, Django, and various other efforts at Wallrazer. This is my personal site.