What does "Stream playlists" actually mean

[Chrisubuntu]

What does "Stream playlists mean". Is it for streaming playlists on my local network, or Cloud storage, etc. How does it work?

[maxmp]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/M3U

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HTTP_Live_Streaming

In short: online radios.

[andrewilley]

For example, here's a playlist file (.pls format) that I set up for the main UK BBC Radio stations. You could add the same URLs to an M3U playlist or to an internal playlist though.

[playlist]
NumberOfEntries=6
File1=http://bbcmedia.ic.llnwd.net/stream/bbcmedia_radio1_mf_p?s=1569878499&e=1569892899&h=7f766ba5684c554e92463424aeff6911
Title1=BBC Radio 1
Length1=-1
File2=http://bbcmedia.ic.llnwd.net/stream/bbcmedia_radio2_mf_p?s=1569791360&e=1569805760&h=c25e7b8fee282efa2494132b72861aef
Title1=BBC Radio 2
Length1=-1
File3=http://bbcmedia.ic.llnwd.net/stream/bbcmedia_radio3_mf_p?s=1569878285&e=1569892685&h=03edd4813e36b72af9fb05b1aca6aa55
Title1=BBC Radio 3
Length1=-1
File4=http://bbcmedia.ic.llnwd.net/stream/bbcmedia_radio4fm_mf_p?s=1569878045&e=1569892445&h=c6707d02d872ed675830c1bd805aec39
Title1=BBC Radio 4
Length1=-1
File5=http://bbcmedia.ic.llnwd.net/stream/bbcmedia_radio4extra_mf_p?s=1569878302&e=1569892702&h=601a8f6966ea8aee40ec188a92f8c19e
Title1=BBC Radio 4 Extra
Length1=-1
File6=http://bbcmedia.ic.llnwd.net/stream/bbcmedia_6music_mf_p?s=1569878308&e=1569892708&h=bb202392e2305127f2ac6b25ae3c9d5d
Title1=BBC Radio 6 Music
Length1=-1

The individual station titles will be visible in Recently Added, Recently Played, etc - but obviously not in Albums, Folders, etc as they are uniquely Playlist contents with no album or song title equivalences:

Opening any of them will stream that radio station live.

Andre