BBC radio feeds broken

[aj78]

Not a RuneAudio bug report but users may have noticed that the BBC radio feeds and script I provided have stopped working. Apparently the BBC have changed the way they do feeds and, as usual, are being as unhelpful as possible about providing the new feed links. This has broken my script, however I do plan to produce a new script once I can find the new feed URLs. (get_iplayer seems to know about them [the national streams anyway] so it shouldn't be a big job, however my free time is very limited at the moment so it may be a while till I can get round to it).

[aj78]

[PegLEg]

Hi,

I've just landed at planet Rune having joined the PI party very late in the day. Got myself a RPi b+/HIFIBerryDIGI+ combo a few days ago and put RundeAudio 0.3 on it. A few glitches, but the main fly in the oinment is this change to BBC Live Radio Feeds.

As the feeds are now HLS based ( e.g. http://a.files.bbci.co.uk/media/live/ma ... three.m3u8 ) I was under the impression the version of MPD in Runeaudio0.3 doesn't support the apple m3u8 format. Or, am I wrong?

[LC1]

See this post, new links worked fine for me:

bbc-radio-t546-10.html#p5319

[LC1]

Actually, while they work fine most of the time, I do keep getting annoying drop outs since this change over... Grrr.

[MarkP]

[LC1]

Thanks ever so much, I had seen there was this solution, but it all seems a bit daunting for me who has no linux experience. What would be great is if the developers could add all the hi-res BBC stations in their next release

[ACX]

[LC1]

Great to hear, I look forward to it!

[aj78]

The minimstreamer approach seems to work very well. However, looking in a bit more detail at the software it appears unwise to rely on it for a long term solution as it has a very odd time-limited license (currently to June 15) and the author appears extremely cagey about his future plans. The license has been extended before (it was originally up to some time in 2014, then December 2014, now June this year) but it highlights the risks of relying on non-Free software. Also there is a non-redistribution clause in the license which would mean that if the project wanted to incorporate it there would have to be a run-on-first-boot script to download and install it.

Hopefully now that the HLS streams are available another Free project will incorporate similar functionality - or mpd will develop the ability to play them back correctly without requiring additional support.