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BBC Radio in iTunes

sorry to reply to such an old thread, but the link for bbc.zip is dead. Does anyone have a copy? Does this still work?

thanks
 
tris713 said:
sorry to reply to such an old thread, but the link for bbc.zip is dead. Does anyone have a copy? Does this still work?

thanks
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It may be old but it's still alive, Zandy the OP has posted a new/working copy of the .mov files:


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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First of all, thanks to Andy - just downloaded your files and they worked straight off on my mac. I'm now listening to Radio 1 from Australia in iTunes - awesome, thanks!!!

One question, has anyone tried to sync this with a 1st gen Apple TV? (I noticed the comments that it doesn't work over airplay)

I have a playlist with all my radio stations on which I sync with my Apple TV. Other radio stations appear in the playlist on the apple TV, but these ones don't. Any way of getting them to?

Thanks loads
 
A little bit of speculation never hurt...

tris713 said:
First of all, thanks to Andy - just downloaded your files and they worked straight off on my mac. I'm now listening to Radio 1 from Australia in iTunes - awesome, thanks!!!

One question, has anyone tried to sync this with a 1st gen Apple TV? (I noticed the comments that it doesn't work over airplay)

I have a playlist with all my radio stations on which I sync with my Apple TV. Other radio stations appear in the playlist on the apple TV, but these ones don't. Any way of getting them to?

Thanks loads
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Off the top of my head I don't think this will work because you won't have the WMV QT components on the ATV. On my ATV2 these streams appear under the Music section of iTunes (the Radio section for iTunes I think is sourced from Apple and is very US-centric, with many stations blocked outside the US).

Without 'jailbreaking' the ATV(1) to run vanilla OSX I woudn't have thought there would be a mechanism to get the WMV codecs on there.

But a better answer would be from someone who has the ATV(1) and can do more than just speculate ;-)
 
Patch not working for me

It downloads and imports fine, but when I try to play I don't hear anything. It counts up as though it's playing but there is no audio (yes I have made sure the mute is off). Any thoughts?
Thanks
 
swk22 said:
It downloads and imports fine, but when I try to play I don't hear anything. It counts up as though it's playing but there is no audio (yes I have made sure the mute is off). Any thoughts?
Thanks
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This sounds like you don't have the Flip4Mac WMV QT plugins installed; see earlier in the thread for details.
 
Hi guys... i have been enjoying the use of this great work to listen to the BBC since I downloaded the files in November 2010.

However last week or so I started to get problems with Radio5Live. Now none of the BBC stations is coming in.

Were the files updated since November ? Has anyone else had problems ?

Thanks..
 
It looks like Auntie has rejigged things again

Although I've contributed to this thread regularly, I've actually been using
Phantom Gorilla's BBC Radio OSX Widget for a while now (it works for me and I regularly don't have iTunes running).

Earlier this week I noticed an interruption to, initially, BBC Radio 2; which propagated through the other feeds. When this has happened before it's been due to changes made by Auntie.

Possibly related is the fact that streaming sites operated by the BBC were hacked on Tuesday so they silently served visitors with malware, researchers from security firm Websense said

Regardless Phantom Gorilla released an update to their widget this morning which includes:

Version 4.21 changes:

Fixed to be compatible with recent BBC changes.
​

so until Andy or someone else has time to fix the MOV stream files you'll have to either stick to the WS or find an alt solution. If you have the time and read through the thread you might enough hints to fix the files yourself (not saying that you will but you might).



hsotnicam8002 said:
Stopped working for me too, except BBC World Service (UK Schedule).
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saoir said:
Hi guys... i have been enjoying the use of this great work to listen to the BBC since I downloaded the files in November 2010.

However last week or so I started to get problems with Radio5Live. Now none of the BBC stations is coming in.

Were the files updated since November ? Has anyone else had problems ?

Thanks..
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Yep the .mov streams seem to have broken for me too. Its great to have BBC radio right within iTunes so I look forward to a fix if its possible, but till then the widget seems like a good solution...
 
I'd love a copy of that zip file too if that's possible?

Trying to find a solution for listening to bbc radio, through an airport express that's controlled by my iPhone, and this seems to be the only way of doing it that I can find.

Let me know if i need to PM you for this.

Thanks!
 
@saoir - thanks for your response. As I've only ever been a lurker, I don't think I can send you a PM yet. Let me know if there's any other way I could get this, thanks
 
Dear All,

Just to let you know - found the BBC Radio Streams being listed in iTunes - I'd given up looking years ago, but moving an old apple TV and mucking around with it over the weekend, stumbled upon the streams.

Working really well on apple tv, and my MacBook Pro...

I've since created a playlist in itunes to list them all neatly, then synced that to the apple TV, as that seems to be the best way to access the streams via the remote app (I use the apple tv as a source into a Russound multi-room system) so it works as an audio/video server - some rooms don't have a TV in so to be able to select the music/station via the app is a really nice feature...

All we need now is BBC iplayer, 4OD, ITV player etc support and we'd have a really cooking solution!

Anyway, it's been a longtime coming....

You still need to search under the genres...but here is where I found the streams (might be some more available but these are the ones I've searched for thus far)...

Happy listening.

BBC Radio 1 – TOP 40/POP
BBC Radio 1 xtra – TOP 40/POP
BBC Radio 2 – ADULT CONTEMPORARY
BBC Radio 3 - CLASSICAL
BBC Radio 4 – NEWS/TALK RADIO
BBC Radio 4 LW - NEWS/TALK RADIO
BBC Radio 4 extra (was radio 7) - COMEDY
BBC 5 Live – NEWS/TALK RADIO
BBC 5 Live Sports Extra – SPORTS RADIO
BBC 6 Music – ALTERNATIVE ROCK
 
well done @hansievanstaak! Did not realise they were in there. Quality is not great for me though, quieter than other radio stations, but it will do. Cheers.
 
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