Klassikradio is a German radio station with an easy-to-digest selection of classical music, movie themes and other relaxing sounds, with not too many commercials.

They have many channels, all available as mp3 streams. They can be found and played in your browser at http://www.klassikradio.de/webplayer

To play the audio streams outside of a web browser, I retrieved and saved the stream urls as m3u files, using the shell script below. It used to work until Klassikradio changed its website:

#! /bin/bash

index_url='http://www.klassikradio.de/webplayer'
audio_url='http://stream.klassikradio.de/[^/]*'

for x in $(wget -q -O - "${index_url}" | grep -o "${audio_url}"); do 
  echo "${x}" > "klassikradio-$(basename "${x}").m3u";
done

The resulting m3u files are still available from here.

M3U files are the easiest way to “bookmark” media streams to be played by an audio player of your choice.

I use the VLC player with the “Allow only one instance” setting and configure it as the default application for *.m3u files.