BBC ending internet listening

[Beresford]

MickyD: My Internet radio has now stopped working on the BBC Radio 3 stream, so I suspect this is the big switchoff. The radio can receive DAB very well, so it's not a problem for me, and the foreign stations are still available.

[Alain Maréchal]

The technical aspects of this defeat me, but I suppose, since I do not pay for the BBC, I have no cause for complaint. Sorrowfully it prevents my listening to Choral Evensong, which is just about my sole remaining connection to the U.K.. Other broadcasters are available, but it is going to make Wednesday afternoons a desert.

[Forget It (U2079353)]

You can always listen to live BBC streams using an APP like that on android called RadioDroid.

https://opensource.com/article/19/4/radiodroid-internet-radio-player

If ever a stream goes away or begins to bark I simply search again for BBC Radio 3 and pick the stream that works.
On the same app you can also listen to the excellent YLE Klassinen station.

[Alain Maréchal]

You can always listen to live BBC streams using an APP like that on android called RadioDroid.

https://opensource.com/article/19/4/radiodroid-internet-radio-player

If ever a stream goes away or begins to bark I simply search again for BBC Radio 3 and pick the stream that works.
On the same app you can also listen to the excellent YLE Klassinen station.

Thank you for trying, but I regret to say that was Greek to me. It seems to require a computer, but I do not understand how the signal then gets to my amplifier and thence to my loudspeakers. (Unless, and it is dawning on me, my present player can find those streams,) I expect a visit to Darty may be required, and the outlay of money.

[Forget It (U2079353)]

Hi Alain
The actual streams are listed here

http://www.radiofeeds.co.uk/query.asp?feedme=BBC

but you need to program your receiver/device somehow to use them instead of the current ones

[Alain Maréchal]

Thank you. I'm sure I know somebody who is clever enough to do this for me.
I cannot help thinking that this is hardly maintaining the BBC's reputation for dissemination of the British view of culture or way of life. Perhaps that no longer matters to the British.

[MickyD]

MickyD: My Internet radio has now stopped working on the BBC Radio 3 stream, so I suspect this is the big switchoff. The radio can receive DAB very well, so it's not a problem for me, and the foreign stations are still available.

Same here for me in southern France. It was revolutionary when the internet first came along and gave BBC radio to we listeners outside the UK; considering how technology has advanced, I find it ironic that the BBC has taken this backward step to alienate thousands of us. To make matters even worse, BBC TV channels are now no longer available on Freesat either. It's all very sad and I cannot think how it is going to advance the BBC's cause to be one of the world's leading broadcasters.

[Beresford]

Hi Alain
The actual streams are listed here

http://www.radiofeeds.co.uk/query.asp?feedme=BBC

but you need to program your receiver/device somehow to use them instead of the current ones

Note this list has one incorrect entry for R3 because the R3 stream listed under aacPlus/AAC stations has been abandoned in the last week. The other R3 entries are correct.

[AuntDaisy]

A bit late to the party, but this page has a useful lists of BBC radio streams (& extra information, see end of this post).

https://gist.github.com/bpsib/67089b959e4fa898af69fea59ad74bc3

The Radio 3 HLS ones seem to be working with VLC (checked from UK and, with a VPN, from "abroad")
http://a.files.bbci.co.uk/media/live...dio_three.m3u8 (UK only)
http://a.files.bbci.co.uk/media/live...dio_three.m3u8 (UK only)
http://a.files.bbci.co.uk/media/live...dio_three.m3u8 (non-UK)

# The above streams are restricted to the UK. For the international stream when available,
# replace /uk/ with /nonuk/ and /sbr_med/ with /sbr_low/ or /sbr_vlow/.
# Different bitrates are available by replacing /sbr_med/ :
# /sbr_vlow/ = 48k /sbr_low/ = 96k
# UK only: /sbr_med/ = 128k /sbr_high/ = 320k

[Retune]

The RadioBrowser site mentioned above has an up to date list of streams for Radio 3 and pretty much anything else I listen to from the BBC and other broadcasters. They have a nice list of apps that can use this database for Android, iOS, Mac, Windows and Linux etc, plus Web players, a VLC plugin, and an Alexa skill.