BBC Radio

[MarkP]

Just out of interest, I am now using the following BBC URLs, since they switched over this week:

http://bbcmedia.ic.llnwd.net/stream/bbc ... io4fm_mf_p
http://bbcmedia.ic.llnwd.net/stream/bbc ... extra_mf_p
http://bbcmedia.ic.llnwd.net/stream/bbc ... music_mf_p

Hope this is of use to others.

[4eyes]

Thanks for this Mark, I was wondering where they had gone. Do you know what the URL for BBCRadio3 is?

[MarkP]

Just playing around (copying the URLs into the Firefox address bar and changing the station name), it looks like this works:
http://bbcmedia.ic.llnwd.net/stream/bbc ... adio3_mf_p

The other stations seem to follow the same pattern.

There's also the LW version for R4:
http://bbcmedia.ic.llnwd.net/stream/bbc ... io4lw_mf_p

[ICLlP]

Thanks for this. 1 to 6

http://bbcmedia.ic.llnwd.net/stream/bbc ... adio1_mf_p
http://bbcmedia.ic.llnwd.net/stream/bbc ... 1xtra_mf_p
http://bbcmedia.ic.llnwd.net/stream/bbc ... adio2_mf_p
http://bbcmedia.ic.llnwd.net/stream/bbc ... adio3_mf_p
http://bbcmedia.ic.llnwd.net/stream/bbc ... io4fm_mf_p
http://bbcmedia.ic.llnwd.net/stream/bbc ... io4lw_mf_p
http://bbcmedia.ic.llnwd.net/stream/bbc ... extra_mf_p
http://bbcmedia.ic.llnwd.net/stream/bbc ... 5live_mf_p
http://bbcmedia.ic.llnwd.net/stream/bbc ... extra_mf_p
http://bbcmedia.ic.llnwd.net/stream/bbc ... music_mf_p

[hunta2097]

Wow those are really useful - thanks guys.

Shame the BBC are stuck at 128k

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[pushedtempo]

The BBC have (very) recently changed their streams. The ones listed above should be considered legacy streams and the BBC intend to switch them off within a year. There's a blog post here:

Higher quality streams are available using HLS up to 320kbps. The BBC have not been forthcoming with those streams but over on the squeezebox forums they have posted some and I've been able to work out the others. The 320kbps feed of the BBC stations are distinguished by sbr_high in the address. You need to remove the sbr_ to change the feed to 128kbps. All the nationals follow a similar naming convention.

http://a.files.bbci.co.uk/media/live/ma ... o_one.m3u8
http://a.files.bbci.co.uk/media/live/ma ... 1xtra.m3u8
http://a.files.bbci.co.uk/media/live/ma ... o_two.m3u8
http://a.files.bbci.co.uk/media/live/ma ... three.m3u8
http://a.files.bbci.co.uk/media/live/ma ... ourfm.m3u8
http://a.files.bbci.co.uk/media/live/ma ... ourlw.m3u8
http://a.files.bbci.co.uk/media/live/ma ... extra.m3u8
http://a.files.bbci.co.uk/media/live/ma ... _live.m3u8
http://a.files.bbci.co.uk/media/live/ma ... music.m3u8

Whilst all these can be copied into VLC and work fine at 320kbps (if you're in the UK) they don't work in Rune Audio. The version of MPD that Rune Audio 0.3 uses doesn't support m3u8. However, even if it did I don't know if it could use the streams and I don't know enough about MPD to get it working myself if it didn't do it natively.

[LC1]

Does anyone have a Rune Audio compatible link for BBC World Service please?

[ICLlP]

[pushedtempo]

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