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BBC Radio in iTunes

Hello everyone,

I tried to set this up last night and I have downloaded and have installed the wmv plugin for Quicktime (flip4mac) and downloaded the links posted by zandy (June 17th 2008). When I try to open the link in itunes nothing happens (sits there like its just buffering). Doing the same in quicktime just sits there buffering but not actually playing.

Really would like to get this working, even if it cant be streamed through air-tunes :(

Andrew
 
Hi

I noticed you were in Japan, I wonder if you can get this URL to work (IIRC this is the toplevel source for the WMV BBC Radio TWO stream):

http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio/listen/live/r2.asx

This might be why you can only get the World Service stream to work.

I presume the World Service URL (in the .mov file) is for the WMV stream, I note from http://www.radiofeeds.co.uk/query.asp?feedme=BBC+World+Service that World Service stream MP3, WMV and RealPlayer where as the National BBC stations only stream WMV and RP.
kdum8 said:
I downloaded your zip but don't understand what this sentence means. Where can I find the World Service URL that I need to paste? I can only get the world service radio link to work. All the others don't function. :confused:

(I have all the correct codecs as far as I am aware, perian, flip4mac, vlc etc).
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Andrew

Can you confirm that you're approaching this with a UK IP address?

Maybe read my note to the other poster above.

That said, I have a US-based IP in my office and can still access the streams okay.

clubber1966 said:
Hello everyone,

I tried to set this up last night and I have downloaded and have installed the wmv plugin for Quicktime (flip4mac) and downloaded the links posted by zandy (June 17th 2008). When I try to open the link in itunes nothing happens (sits there like its just buffering). Doing the same in quicktime just sits there buffering but not actually playing.

Really would like to get this working, even if it cant be streamed through air-tunes :(

Andrew
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tullys said:
Hi

I noticed you were in Japan, I wonder if you can get this URL to work (IIRC this is the toplevel source for the WMV BBC Radio TWO stream):

http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio/listen/live/r2.asx

This might be why you can only get the World Service stream to work.

I presume the World Service URL (in the .mov file) is for the WMV stream, I note from http://www.radiofeeds.co.uk/query.asp?feedme=BBC+World+Service that World Service stream MP3, WMV and RealPlayer where as the National BBC stations only stream WMV and RP.
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Hi Tullys, thanks for the idea. I can play that link you sent fine. Generally BBC Radio is free for everyone globally. They do restrict the iPlayer though to UK residents only, (which I get around using a proxy server).

I appreciate you taking the time to try and assist me. It is not the end of the world that I can't get it to work through iTunes though. I can still listen from the BBC homepage.

;)
 
Still not working

Hi All,

I have waited till the new version of iTunes came out before progressing this. Still not working and my IP address is via British Telecom, so should be UK IP Address. I did get this working via another method of using VLC as a streaming buffer, but don't really want to use this solution.

Andrew
 
Back to Square One

Well having had this working on Leopard, I did a fresh re-install for Snow Leopard.

I'm now in the same boat as you, Andrew. Well specifically, on 10.6.1 with iTunes 9.0.1, without either Perian or Flip4Mac installed the stream opens, the track timer starts but nothing is played (verified by with the Laythe visualiser.

Installing Perian effects no change in behaviour.

Installing Flip4Mac actually makes things work, in that the track timer doesn't even start.

Same config (Perian+Flip4Mac+iTunes 8.x+10.5.8) still works fine.

Using VLC for the timebeing...


clubber1966 said:
Hi All,

I have waited till the new version of iTunes came out before progressing this. Still not working and my IP address is via British Telecom, so should be UK IP Address. I did get this working via another method of using VLC as a streaming buffer, but don't really want to use this solution.

Andrew
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thanks for these.

is there any chance of a BBC Radio Scotland and BBC Radio nan Gàidheal link ?

actually, i confirm above that these don't actually play anything with SL, itunes 901 and flip4mac and perian installed.
 
World Service

I am often listening to BBC World Service radio. I've tried all the downloads in this thread and I have also got Perian and FlipForMac installed and updated, but for me, the only url that works in iTunes is the mp3 link on this page: http://www.radiofeeds.co.uk/query.asp?feedme=BBC+World+Service. It is quite annoying with the Vermont Public Radio asking for money and interrupting once every hour, but otherwise it works fine. It also seems slightly stupid to listen to the BBC via the US, when I am myself in northern Europe. Seems the stream is so low quality (24k mono) that issues with latency doesn't occur anyway.

The RealPlayer link also works, but it needs Real player, the newest version of wich doesn't work on my system. The old version worked fine in Snow Leaopard, but I was stupid enough to update to the newest version, and it crashes at every startup. Anyway, I don't really like having to start Real player to listen, then I could just as well use the links on the BBC web pages.

If there are any other Scandinavians out wich like listening to radio, here is a link to a script wich innstalls Swedish, Norwegian and Danish (and even a Færøese) radio and TV playlists in iTunes: http://mac1.no/nettradio
 
zandy said:
Hi guys,

I have managed to embed the new url's into the movie files. Tullys was almost there. Take the longest url (World Service), paste in the new url and pad at the end with spaces so that the length is the same.

I've attached a zip with the files.

Andy
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This still works great. Many thanks! BBC - the best radio in the world ...
 
Did it without a hitch :S

Maybe the BBC have made it easier or something but I just read this whole topic and then tried it for myself, I had an iPod before I had a Mac, so I knew about and used http://bbcstreams.com/ for my streaming URL's but I think they're the same as the ones mentioned earlier on. Then I just literally googled 'Flip 4 Mac' and I found the download for that http://www.microsoft.com/windows/windowsmedia/player/wmcomponents.mspx (It's a horrible installer that's just alien to Mac users, but as long as you click the Customise button at the end to stop it from installing Silverlight and the browser plugin its all good).

Now, after downloading the Radio 1 stream url from BBC Streams, I am now sitting listening to Radio 1 in an almost constant stream (there are very slight drop outs or stutters but nothing very noticeable).

I realise it's playing in Quicktime and not iTunes but this seems good enough to me, I haven't had to install any new program just a Windows Media codec component for Quicktime.
 
TheShrew said:
Maybe the BBC have made it easier or something but I just read this whole topic and then tried it for myself, I had an iPod before I had a Mac, so I knew about and used http://bbcstreams.com/ for my streaming URL's but I think they're the same as the ones mentioned earlier on. Then I just literally googled 'Flip 4 Mac' and I found the download for that http://www.microsoft.com/windows/windowsmedia/player/wmcomponents.mspx (It's a horrible installer that's just alien to Mac users, but as long as you click the Customise button at the end to stop it from installing Silverlight and the browser plugin its all good).

Now, after downloading the Radio 1 stream url from BBC Streams, I am now sitting listening to Radio 1 in an almost constant stream (there are very slight drop outs or stutters but nothing very noticeable).

I realise it's playing in Quicktime and not iTunes but this seems good enough to me, I haven't had to install any new program just a Windows Media codec component for Quicktime.
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Not exactly what this topic is about tho is it? The clue is in the "iTunes"! ;)
 
Any recent updates here, getting an airport express and would love to stream bbc radio via my ipod hi-fi which, currently is gathering dust in a corner
 
TheShrew said:
Maybe the BBC have made it easier or something but I just read this whole topic and then tried it for myself, I had an iPod before I had a Mac, so I knew about and used http://bbcstreams.com/ for my streaming URL's but I think they're the same as the ones mentioned earlier on. Then I just literally googled 'Flip 4 Mac' and I found the download for that http://www.microsoft.com/windows/windowsmedia/player/wmcomponents.mspx (It's a horrible installer that's just alien to Mac users, but as long as you click the Customise button at the end to stop it from installing Silverlight and the browser plugin its all good).

Now, after downloading the Radio 1 stream url from BBC Streams, I am now sitting listening to Radio 1 in an almost constant stream (there are very slight drop outs or stutters but nothing very noticeable).

I realise it's playing in Quicktime and not iTunes but this seems good enough to me, I haven't had to install any new program just a Windows Media codec component for Quicktime.
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Thanks. This works well. I wish it were in iTunes, but Quicktime's better than using the iPlayer.
 
BBC Radio for iTunes

Hi everyone,

After the latest break in the files, I've figured out a new way to create them. So here are the new BBC radio .mov files for iTunes. They still won't work with the Airport Express, but I am hoping that there will be some way of streaming them with the new version of AirTunes (ie AirPlay) that comes out soon.

Enjoy,

Andy
 

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I'm in Holland, they work for me. Thanks !!
Shame about not being able to stream using Airport Express, that would be perfection.
 
Hey Andy

Thanks for fixing these!

zandy said:
Hi everyone,

After the latest break in the files, I've figured out a new way to create them. So here are the new BBC radio .mov files for iTunes. They still won't work with the Airport Express, but I am hoping that there will be some way of streaming them with the new version of AirTunes (ie AirPlay) that comes out soon.

Enjoy,

Andy
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Hey Zanda ... MANY thanks for all of your work. These files all work great in my Mac iTunes 10.

Thanks again.

zandy said:
Hi everyone,

After the latest break in the files, I've figured out a new way to create them. So here are the new BBC radio .mov files for iTunes. They still won't work with the Airport Express, but I am hoping that there will be some way of streaming them with the new version of AirTunes (ie AirPlay) that comes out soon.

Enjoy,

Andy
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zandy said:
Hi everyone,

After the latest break in the files, I've figured out a new way to create them. So here are the new BBC radio .mov files for iTunes. They still won't work with the Airport Express, but I am hoping that there will be some way of streaming them with the new version of AirTunes (ie AirPlay) that comes out soon.

Enjoy,

Andy
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Thanks Andy, They work great! :)
 
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