BBC Radio

My Radio 4 has, predictably, stopped working, and now streams the very unhelpful and rather threatening lady advising us to contact the “device manufacturer”, but giving us no technical information or other helpful reference.

So is there a way we can continue to get streamed BBC radio with MPlayer under RISC OS?

Is it available on a different URL streamed by someone else?

I noticed before the final change that the FM stream would occasionally lapse into the AM stream, presumably the death throes of the streaming system.

The URLs changed recently. If you use the play list URL then it should always work.

http://a.files.bbci.co.uk/media/live/manifesto/audio/simulcast/hls/uk/sbr_high/ak/bbc_radio_fourfm.m3u8

https://stream.live.vc.bbcmedia.co.uk/bbc_radio_fourfm ? Works for me, playing Just A Minute right now.

The llvmedia (IIRC) stream has stopped, but then it wasn’t always that reliable.

Is this another step on the road to “you must log in to BBC Sounds”?

Not sure its any help, but I recently got sent a long list of all the BBC National and local radio stations new URL’s for streaming.

“BBC Radio 4” http://stream.live.vc.bbcmedia.co.uk/bbc_radio_fourfm
“BBC Radio 3” http://stream.live.vc.bbcmedia.co.uk/bbc_radio_three
“BBC Radio Scotland FM” http://stream.live.vc.bbcmedia.co.uk/bbc_radio_scotland_fm
“BBC Radio Leeds” http://stream.live.vc.bbcmedia.co.uk/bbc_radio_leeds

Just a few examples. Also have some for Absolute radio and ClassicFM

There’s a complete list of of BBC AAC radio streams at https://www.astra2sat.com/radio/bbc-radio/bbc-aac-radio-streams/.

Thanks to all.

I’ve substituted Chris’ URL as that behaves exactly like my previous one, opening a task window which I can close to quit the task.

It also responds quicker than Rick’s, which I expect that I would have to quit from the Task Manager or make an extra Obeyfile to quit the task.

But thanks to all, though I’m sorry I missed Just A Minute!

Really glad I asked!

It also responds quicker than Rick’s

Ah, mine’s a direct URL for use with my ESP32 NetRadio. Seems to respond reasonably quickly for me…?

Seems to respond reasonably quickly for me…?

Not disrespecting your URL! Just observing that Chris’ responds significantly quicker in the MPlayer situation here as a drop-in replacement for the original URL!

Large list here

As I have just discovered, BBC Radio URLs that I had aren’t working. I was pleased to find this thread. Thank you for the replacement links; happy to say I’m now listening to Radio again with DigitalCD! :)