I was recently able to bring my two AudioTrons back to life after many years of dormancy.
For My Local Music:
I have a TP Link AC1750 router that has a USB port. I put music on a USB drive, enabled file sharing, and put the share location in the AudioTron.
I have a TP Link AC1750 router that has a USB port. I put music on a USB drive, enabled file sharing, and put the share location in the AudioTron.
The AudioTron is SMBv1 client and the router supports this.
For Radio Stations
I went through the set-up of a local DNS server on an Intel NUC with Linux Mint. I was able to successfully redirect from duncan.turtleradio.com to the ListenLive server only one time and it did load in the 1000 station list using the ID "Audiotron". After this, my IP address seems to be blocked since no computers in my home are able to access ListenLive anymore. I just get a message "No Access". A challenge with the pre-built 1000 station list is that many stations are no longer functional. Also, many stations are now using AAC format which does not seem to be supported on the AudioTron. I found the resources below for formatting and generating a local radio station list that can be discovered just like local music files.
https://www.jon00.me.uk/TurtleRadioIntro.shtml
https://www.jon00.me.uk/hs.html (log in with guest access to generate an XML-style station list)
https://www.jon00.me.uk/Audiotron.shtml (download the Excel file to create an XML-style station list)
The above online station editor is functional, but it could conceivably go away at any time even though it appears to have been there for years.
I switched to Linux Mint and no longer use Microsoft. The macros in the Excel file above will not work in LibreOffice. So, I used ChatGPT to create a Python script that converts my station list spreadsheet to a properly formatted XML-type file for the AudioTron.
Since the AudioTron radio station file requires info for the stream format, I had to use some other resources to identify this.
https://directory.shoutcast.com/ (Shoutcast directory)
https://dir.xiph.org/ (ICEcast directory)
These are the primary sources of my stations since there are currently no indicators for the stations on ListenLive to identify if a station is Shoutcast, Icecast, or Windows Media. Also, the AAC format now used by many stations will not work.
I really wanted the DNS server method to work so I could just save radio station favorites on ListenLive and have them load automatically into my AudioTrons. I had to dig into this more than I wanted, but in the end I got it to work for both local music and radio stations.
Long live the AudioTron!