Re: Are there any simple BBC internet radio programs for the Pi?

On 28/08/2024 19:09, Chris Green wrote:

The Natural Philosopher <tnp@invalid.invalid> wrote:

On 28/08/2024 15:19, Chris Green wrote:

Joerg Walther <joerg.walther@magenta.de> wrote:

Chris Green wrote:
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Now that the BBC no longer uses Shoutcast are there any internet radio
programs for the Pi that can receive BBC internet radio?

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I don't know what you mean by internet radio programs, but you can
listen to the Beep with any browser, bbc.co.uk -> click on sounds and
select your preferred station.
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That doesn't work very well on a headless Pi! :-)
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What I was looking for was something like the old 'radiotray' which
one could run on the command line (with station name as a parameter)
and the requested program would play on the audio output.
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Basically everybody except Classic FM has ditched icecast/shoutcast in
order to require you to listen to more ads and give them an email
address to spam
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Unless you buy a DAB radio which will last a couple of years until they
change the format again to force you to buy a new one
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... and won't work outside the UK if I want to listen to the BBC.
 I simply want to listen to BBC (mostly radio 4) in the simplest
possible way when I'm away from home in Europe mainland.  I.e. I want
something I can just 'turn on' (like radios used to work).
 At the moment Radio 4 on 198khz is the best option but I don't know
how long that is going to last.
 

Yes. .I had a similar issue,  - all my icecast streams except classic FM stopped working.
I only now listen to classic FM
Its the same with the telly. More an more woke shite on UK public service channels. Dont watch telly any more.
The stream urls are available as m3u8  but the format that they use needs something like VLC to read.
Now this *may* work for you with VLC installed:
cvlc http://as-hls-ww-live.akamaized.net/pool_904/live/ww/bbc_radio_fourfm/bbc_radio_fourfm.isml/bbc_radio_fourfm-audio%3d96000.norewind.m3u8
If it does, the URLs for the other BBC stations are available :
https://gist.github.com/bpsib/67089b959e4fa898af69fea59ad74bc3
You wont get the content information you used to get with icecast, but the audio should play.
Expect it to be a shade lumpy till it gets the buffering right
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