Finding radio stations

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I had done a full reset of my Bose before realizing that the problem was Bose that shutdown the services from their servers. As such, all 6 buttons were empty by the time I installed SixBack on an ESP32. Everything seems to be working well however it is extremely difficult to find radio stations. Some of them that should have been obvious were never to be found. Radio Canada for instance. There were only the the Music stations of Radio Canada, not the regular stations. I am not sure how this database of radio stations is built. Maybe it is incomplete. Any other options for adding radio stations?

[tostmann]

The search list comes from the RadioBrowser community database, so coverage depends on what's been submitted there — some regional stations (the regular Radio-Canada streams, for instance) are incomplete or only present as the music feeds.

Two ways forward:

1. Add any station directly by its stream URL — since v0.8.12 you don't need a RadioBrowser entry. Open the Stream tab, paste the direct MP3/AAC stream URL, and drag it onto a preset ("Custom Stations").
2. If you find the station on the RadioBrowser site but it's wrong/missing, you can also contribute the correct stream there so it shows up in search.

One caveat: SoundTouch only decodes ICY/MP3/AAC, not HLS (.m3u8) — so pick a direct MP3/AAC stream URL. (A backend timeout that rejected some slow redirect chains was also just fixed, which had affected a few stations.)