New BBC and Absolute radio streaming URLS

Ah yes. This is my Dutch-French version. In practice I only ever listen to the ad-free Fip or France Musique streams. (Not sure about links further down which I rarely check.)

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These are the *obsolescent* URLS replaced by what I posted

Ohh that works good, but where's Times Radio?

Bill

It's not D-I-Y but I use because it offers the choice of the different codecs and different quality streams incl HLS

Ok, I'll change them, thanks. I hadn't noticed because they still work for now!

yes. I found that site - a good source. My issue was to create a unified interface to live radio and TV, recorded material - music and DVD and off air TV - that would be globally accessible.

So I could ditch DVD plates, CD players. radio tuners etc etc and just run everything of networked devices .

That list was what went into the code

A precise definition of 'obsolescent' - still works, for now....;-)

Probably only for another week or so ...

I've tried only this URL; it's MP3 at 128 kbps, not the higher quality AAC at 320 kbps. I presume that the same applies to all the BBC URLs.

Any chance of a copy without the word wrapping?

Thanks!

So on those where the international feed is different from the UK what is the difference content wise? Also why is it every few years or sooner quite often radio services feel the need to alter their streaming addresses? Is there some new tech they want to take advantage of? Its going to be a pain till all the aggregators catch up particularly with the bbc ones. Also somebody at tune in wants to grow some balls and challenge the ruling on paying a licence for stations they have links to outside the UK, since if you follow that logic through and there are several aggregators showing the same station the record industry would get several payments for the same station, but instead Tune In hands elected to pull he links in the uk, which stopws you playing the stations, which I'm sure was not the real intention as media companies want to plug their content surely? Brian

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possibly certain content will be disallowed (e.g sporting events where they only have uk broadcast rights) and perhaps bitrate is lower for listeners outside the uk?

Is this what the little cryptic messages are on the streams apparently randomly at the moment? Brian

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I do hope it does not affect local radio since a lot of local bbc stations late night actively encourage listeners who used to live there who are abroad to call in. Brian

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Airable has done so.

The 320k BBC stream now identifies as BBC Radio 3 HD

This on my Yamaha AVR which uses Airable after a change from VTuner with a firmware update a couple of years ago

Internet radio lags behind FM by a few seconds. Switching from FM on the last Pip of the time signal I catch the last couple of pips from the net.

I don't mind that the links change from time to time, that's how it goes. But why do they not simply list their streaming URLs? Like many with a Raspberry Pi, I make my own streaming radio player! Do manufaturers have to pay for that information??

From

"We make every attempt to provide manufacturers with information that allows them to offer BBC Radio services to their customers. Support for these devices is the responsibility of the manufacturer, as they control what content is offered on the device and how to access it. If you?re not able to resolve the problem yourself, you?ll need to contact your manufacturer?s support team."

On Sat, 13 Mar 2021 13:11:02 +0000, The Natural Philosopher wrote: [...]

Hard to believe anyone with an internet radio would still want to listen to the s**te the BBC has to offer, given that they'd have literally tens of thousands of better alternatives at their fingertips. --

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