I posted this puzzle initially in the SC forum, to no avail, and I'm
wondering if the Alien guys here have a comment, as almost all of the
missing radio streams are via Alien. Here's what I wrote in this
thread:
http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=66357
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Post an example of the Alen playlist so at least we can get an idea of
what you are doing.
Most BBC programs only are valid for 7 days so perhaps they have
expired and been removed.
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bpa
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I'm talking about live, streaming radio, not the play it again stuff
(with as you say, limited availability).
Here's the BBC R3 Alien live stream that I was listening to every day
via my saved Playlist (last saved over a year ago):
What you have done is nothing to do with Alien and I cannot help. I
don't think those sort of links are useful are they are not the proper
URL and will probably break when AlienBBC is updated or the database ids
changed as it depends on the assigned playlist id.
It is best to save the actual BBC
Thanks for that. I hadn't realized - with respect to your Point #1 -
that the Beeb was available in this format outside the UK (I'm a
Birkenhead lad living in Dallas, TX), so I'll go that route and save new
playlist URLs.
I guess I still need Alien outside the UK for all the Beeb archive
stuff
The availability of WMA stream (albeit at 48kbit) outside of the UK was
only enabled in June so you can play the live stream through
SqueezeNetwork - no need for SC.
At present for non UK users - the Listen Again iPlayer programs are
in RealAudio and AAC. AAC format gives better quality but is
bpa;446296 Wrote:
As a side issue - many BBC link have changed in the last year and so it
is timely to update them.
1. The main live national stations nolonger need Alien as all user can
play the WMA stream and are available under Internet Radio/More
radio/BBC - play the station and
bpa;446306 Wrote:
The availability of WMA stream (albeit at 48kbit) outside of the UK was
only enabled in June so you can play the live stream through
SqueezeNetwork - no need for SC.
At present for non UK users - the Listen Again iPlayer programs are
in RealAudio and AAC. AAC format
the Alien route to the live R3 stream is better quality than the
direct route?
It doesn't matter how you get to the WMA URL as they all play the same
stream.
AlienBBC 2.5 only lists the RealAudio Radio 3 but AlienBBC 2.6 beta
test has both WMA and RealAudio listings. However why use the
