BBC further killing off Web Radio in favour of BBC sounds App?

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I think that’s correct. I can log onto BBC Sounds from the Netherlands and listen to their streams on that website, but the links don’t work in my browser or via Volumio or VLC.

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Here is a list of URL links for BBC Radio stations:
https://gist.github.com/bpsib/67089b959e4fa898af69fea59ad74bc3
The first section in the list is for HLS streaming which will be carried forward. The other two sections are Shoutcast streams that will be discontinued.

Note the comment in the HLS section. Streaming up to 320K is supported in the UK, but outside the UK is limited to 96K.

The above streams are restricted to the UK. For the international stream when available, replace /uk/ with /nonuk/ and /sbr_med/ with /sbr_low/ or /sbr_vlow/.
Different bitrates are available by replacing /sbr_med/ :
/sbr_vlow/ = 48k /sbr_low/ = 96k
UK only: /sbr_med/ = 128k /sbr_high/ = 320k

For example, this 96K stream for BBC Radio 3 works for me in the US (playing on VLC).
http://a.files.bbci.co.uk/media/live/manifesto/audio/simulcast/hls/nonuk/sbr_low/ak/bbc_radio_three.m3u8

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Thanks for this, I’ll check them out. I suppose in the on line world things are always changing. We should also remember that some things that the BBC broadcast,they only have the rights to broadcast domestically.

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Access to the BBC Sounds platform is one of the reasons I run LMS on my Volumio device in my home office. The BBC Sounds plug-in for LMS gives me a nice list of latest editions of programs I’ve subscribed to and works nicely for catching up with editions of shows that I’ve missed.

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How wonderful a Volumio BBC Sounds plugin would be……… :pray:

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This site may of of interest to anyone wanting to add to “My Web Radios”
https://www.radio-browser.info/
There is a lot of information here…
Happy Brwosing,
Michael

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Just merged an other posting to this one. Thanks for the reminder.

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Thank you very much for showing that link. It’s an easy job to cut and paste those URLs and add them to “my web radios” and change quality to 320 bps. I’ve no idea why the BBC are hiding this information
5 star info

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The old BBC feeds stopped working today. These ones are fine, however (at least in the UK):

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Thank you. BBC stopped working Friday and your link got it working again.

Also, I swapped out ‘sbr_med’ for ‘sbr_high’, thank you metro.

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Using sbr_high doesn’t work for me in NL. I need to keep it on sbr_low. For example. BBC 6 is:
http://a.files.bbci.co.uk/media/live/manifesto/audio/simulcast/hls/nonuk/sbr_low/ak/bbc_6music.m3u8

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This has hit hard today… was all working fine, but today none of the Volumio Suggested BBC links are working. The ones I configured about a year ago to get around the streaming changes by the BBC have also stopped working… I have tried the URLs above, but the Music6 one has a drop out after drop out to the point that it’s un-listenable…

Do Volumio have a plan? this is quite an impact to UK users of the software! Is the Hardware they sell also impacted?

I understand it’s not caused by Volumio, but, for me, it a massive use case… and very disappointing…

BTW. I have also tried the Sounds App casting to a CCA from a Android Tablet and that also has drop outs… where as if listens to directly on the Tablet it’s fine

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It’s a moving target with BBC streams. Try this

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Thanks, but I still get stuttering with that URL… I’m now searching for old phones in the house to reuses as a BBC Radio Streamer… This is progress I guess! :smiley:

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It’s a bit hit and miss. Yesterday it was fine, today some stuttering. Still a lot better with the ‘norewind’ bit removed from the url.

I have the Audio Buffer Size in Volumio gen. playback options set to 2MB. Don’t know if increasing that would help.

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Hi - I don’t know if you’ve tried these links, but I have been using them for the last week without experiencing the stutter that the “raw” links exhibit in Volumio (although not in VLC or Foobar2000).
As far as the Volumio buffer setting is concerned I usually have mine set to 12MB without any problems. However I have just tried setting to 2MB with no noticable difference!

Good luck - and keep trying!
Michael

BBC Radio 3
http://lstn.lv/bbc.m3u8?station=bbc_radio_three&bitrate=320000

BBC Radio 4
http://lstn.lv/bbc.m3u8?station=bbc_radio_fourfm&bitrate=320000

BBC Radio 4 extra
http://lstn.lv/bbc.m3u8?station=bbc_radio_four_extra&bitrate=320000

BBC Radio 5 Live
http://lstn.lv/bbc.m3u8?station=bbc_radio_five_live&bitrate=320000

BBC Radio 6 Music
http://lstn.lv/bbc.m3u8?station=bbc_6music&bitrate=320000

BBC Newcastle
http://lstn.lv/bbc.m3u8?station=bbc_radio_newcastle&bitrate=320000

BBC Berkshire
http://lstn.lv/bbc.m3u8?station=bbc_radio_berkshire&bitrate=320000

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Excellent. These work perfectly.

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Thank you for letting me know,
Michael

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Michael,

Thanks for these links.
Listening to BBC Radio 6 Music right now (from Belgium).

Greetings,
Steven

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@Newbiggen The BBC Radio 3 link works perfect from the Netherlands.