BBC Internet Radio Streams

ChipMonk · 2015-03-13T11:26:06+00:00

Those of us who take the business of listening to radio seriously, i.e. high quality sound through high quality audio equipment, will have been astonished or just plain confused by the BBC's recent decision to make most of its prestigious internet radio feeds only through its computer iPlayer or through a limited number of smart phones and tablets. The latter are rightly known for their slick presentation but don't rate very highly for sound reproduction. The BBC further compounded the problem by not letting anyone know about all this in advance (other than a very obscure BBC blog post last year) and they didn't properly consult with internet radio or streaming hardware manufacturers. I could go on in great detail about all this, the arrogance with which the BBC has largely ignored the thousands of pleas for help, offers of advice etc post on the above blog. When listeners, after a month getting no adequate response from the BBC, started to get frustrated and complain, the BBC closed the blog!! At this stage I'm just interested to find out how many people are adversely affected by all this with the intension of trying to get the BBC to reconsider its misguided "leap forward" regardless of the impact on its listeners. ChipMonk

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Bob Martin 11 years ago

I was using cvlc on a Raspberry Pi to listen to BBC R3 in my garage. I haven't been able to find another method, so I'm not pleased.

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charles 11 years ago

I've just bought a Pure Sensia internet radio and it works immaculately; mind you it needs a good WiFi connection.

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Bob Eager 11 years ago

I've been using this (YMMV may vary as I use FreeBSD):

mplayer \ '

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' \ -cache 512 \ -prefer-ipv4

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Bob Martin 11 years ago

That works! Thank you, Bob.

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Bob Eager 11 years ago

FYI...the ones I discovered were:

bbc_radio_one bbc_radio_two bbc_radio_three bbc_radio_fourfm bbc_radio_four_extra bbc_radio_five_live bbc_6music

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Andy Burns 11 years ago

bbc_1xtra bbc_radio_fourlw bbc_radio_five_live_sports_extra bbc_asian_network

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presumably the yaydeeohlowcull streams are out there somewhere?

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Bob Eager 11 years ago

Oh, I got bbc_radio_kent too. One can probably guess..

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tony sayer 11 years ago

Its still there, see other post...

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tony sayer 11 years ago

Shame on them:(...

Yes so it does, but this one works at 320 K for BBC Radio 3...

As measured in VLC..

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Some others here which might be of use...

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Martin Brown 11 years ago

It is still there but my physical hifi hardware won't play it. I can't manually edit URLs I can only choose from favourites or found channels and for some reason it won't play the new Radio3 320k channel at all.

I can play it on my PC with VLC. The R3 320k stream is there but that is little consolation if your kit or player client can't play it.

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tony sayer 11 years ago

Who makes this Internet player Martin?...

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