Guides

Three things people arrive here trying to do: find a playlist worth loading, work out why a stream will not play, and understand what is actually inside the file. Each guide below starts with the short answer, then goes deeper.

They are written to be read once and then not needed again, which is the opposite of how most pages on this subject are built. Where a tool does the job faster than an explanation, the guide says so and links to it rather than walking you through the long way round.

We publish no channels and host no streams. These are about finding and checking your own sources, and about telling a source worth using from one that will waste an evening. If what you actually want is a player rather than a guide, that is thebrowser playeron the front page.