sorry for the many posts folks-
think i figured it out how i did it in past- but my current macbook air mountain lion won't let me down the VLC player to see- i have it on my iMac and this is how i got the url for 128 aac- instructions posted below from site i just found- think this is what i did in past.
To kick off, go to the Radio Paradise website, click the 'Listen' tab and select the '128k AAC' option.
That will start the stream playing in your computer's media player: if you need one of those, the best choice is VLC, which is available free here.
With the station playing in VLC, either open Tools/Media Information, or click the button bottom right on the player window, which will open up the info. Copy and past the stream URL, which will be something like http://scfire-dtc-aa02.stream.aol.com:80/stream/1049.
You can now go to My Added Stations, and add the Radio Paradise AAC feed by pasting in the stream URL. Save, close... (i've added also with frontier i needed to change from mp3 to windows media)
yes, it's well worth it: the station sounds great in MP3, but even better in AAC, despite a fairly low (128kbps) bitrate. It's all in the encoding, you see