There's been a couple radio related threads since posting here, I've been trying to follow them and apologize if I duplicating anything.

First, I wanted to mention I've confirmed I'm unable to paste to the add station//podcast fields.... only noticed 1 other person with this problem tho.
http://www.internettablettalk.com/fo...4&postcount=14
This persists over couple days, multiple reboots, and even canola reinstall.

I guess I've solved my iradio issue? Am I understanding correctly that I can only add links to .pls files? I finally got Alaska public radio to work after looking it up on shoutcast and using their pls file. Usually I refer to a backup of my media player's radiochannels.m3u file (media player bookmarks) to add stations. The bookmarked link for kska didn't work in canola.

Going to the http://kska.org/listen/ website to start from scratch, there was no pls link, rather http://kska.org/listen.m3u resolving to http://stream.kska.org:8290/ ((edit: I didn't try this link in microb, it would have ssavedvtimee had I did)) Neither worked in canola.

I looked up kska on shoutcast and was able to find it. I used their pls link in canola and it worked. Futher inpection found the shoutcast link resolved to http://64.202.98.51:8290/ which when opened in microb finally shows the kska SHOUTcast D.N.A.S. Status page with a link to http://stream.kska.org:8290/listen.pls which I now use in canola.

New York Public Radio site does give links to pls files, but Chicago's doesn't... they
have a m3u file like alaska. Chicago can be found via shoutcast but how to stream stations that are not listed there and who do not link to a pls on their site?

Thanks!