BBC radio streams

BBCR3HD now working on my ND5XS!

Thanks Trevor 

Yes, ok now and working fine - thanks

Simon

Confirming that the new Radio 3 320K UK AAC stream in Naim's Choice is working on my mu-so.

I've also implemented the MinimServer UPnP solution which works well.

Finally, found I could paste the new URLs (e.g. http://a.files.bbci.co.uk/medi...bbc_radio_three.m3u8) into the Mac application Radium and then stream them to mu-so via AirPlay

So a triple-whammy here :-)

Unfortunately not. The Radio 3 stream is an exception which the BBC plan to review in a few months.

I'm afraid that my experience trying to listen to CD Review on R3 320 stream this morning was very unsatisfactory - signal kept disappearing. In the end, I had to find an alternative way of listening via my Virgin TiVo - lower quality, but at least it worked.

There are now step by step instructions for Naim streamers at http://minimstreamer.com/naim/bbcradio.html

The new BBC Radio 3 320 kbps URL is http://a.files.bbci.co.uk/medi...bbc_radio_three.m3u8. This can also be opened in Safari on a Mac.

Note that this only works in the United Kingdom. For other countries, replace /sbr_high/ with /high/.

That website appears to be mostly gibberish, clearly written by nerds for nerds.

Our Muso works from the router, so what on earth do I need to do? Currently I cannot listen to R5 and the world cup cricket and I really need to be up and running for tomorrow's next England debacle.

http://a.files.bbci.co.uk/medi...radio_five_live.m3u8

Airplay to Muso

Thanks Trev, working perfectly

Have just followed those detailed instructions to setup MinimServer to play BBC HLS AAC streams. It took a while. Had to install MinimServer on my QNAP NAS and control it via Minim Watch on my Windows laptop. After tweaking, it now plays the BBC streams beautifully!

My main problem was setting up the .m3u file. The minim server instructions allow you to download their sample file and convert it to a plain text file. I could not make this work and wasted a whole day trying to figure out why it wouldn't work. Eventually, I used Windows Notepad to write the file from scratch and save it as BBC Radio.m3u file. That worked instantly!

To play the BBC streams, just choose UPnP servers on the Naim app. Minim Server is there, listing the stations. Actually, to keep things simple, I downloaded Kinsky and set the BBC streams up on that app. It's easier for my wife to leave the Naim app alone for her albums.

Hi garrybeardieman,

Can you help please?  I still can't get this to go.  This is where I'm at:-

• MinimServer and MinimWatch (latest editions) are installed and working well on my PC
• I have copied the URLs from the Minim site
• I have copied those into a Notepad file and saved it them as a txt file, then as a m3u8 file and then an m3u file
• Naim (and Bubble) both see the m3u and m3u8 files as playlists within the folder I have set up for radio, but neither will open and play the files

What have I done wrong please or what else do I need to do please? 

Many thanks

JSH

Hi

My guess is that the most likely problem is that your m3u file is in rtf format not a true txt file.

Checklist

1. Have you installed a transcoder? (I used ffmpeg) You have to install this separately and may need to set the PATH variable in Windows. Lots of instructions on the web.
2. In MinimServer > Properties > System check that stream.converter specifies your converter (I took the easy option of entering the full path to ffmpeg file but I'm running it on a Mac)
3. Also check that entries in your playlist include aac (e.g.#EXTINF:-1,[*R3;aac] BBC Radio 3) and that stream.transcode is set to aac:L16

Finally, restart MinimServer

The reason for the above is that although MinimStreamer decodes the new HLS streams to AAC, the format of this AAC stream cannot be played by Naim streamers (at least, not on my mu-so). The above black magic converts it into a PCM stream which works (and to my ears, sounds great).

If you are still stuck, try the MinimServer forum. Lots of help available there.

Thanks

They were saved in Notepad as .txt files not as .rtf as far as I can judge.  Do I need to do more?

JSH

The file format needs to be a text file (which is what NotePad creates) but its name has to end with .m3u (mine is named "BBC Radio.m3u").

Is it still not working?

Thanks to all but still no success.  I've tried everything DavidS suggests; what I'm getting with Bubble is an error which says "Illegal MIME type error 714"

Does that give a clue as to where I'm going wrong?

Hi JSH

I'm sorry that I can't explain that, but you will probably get the answer if you post your question on the MinimStreamer forum. I think it's worth persisting - it is working well for me.

david

Thanks for all your help David. I will try the Minim forum, though I have to say that I find much of what is written there is in a language I don't understand!  But I will try

JSH

I browse to stations by country, all stations then Radio Scotland and it's not working.  How do I get this back please?

Can anyone explain why my Unitilite can no longer get Radio Scotland while my cheap little Marantz gets it perfectly and hasn't even neede a re-tune?

Conosurs of withering sarcasm can do worse than check out the replies to the BBC's feeble attempts to justify their actions on their Audio Factory blog.

Keith

Bumpety bump.  The Beeb say contact your device manufacturer.  Well, here it is.