Internet radio stations & other alternatives to Radio 3

[Forget It (U2079353)]

Mid 2023 many BBC Radio live streams that have been operational for years are being shut down in favour of the HLS streams.

The new stream for Radio 3 operational already for the UK is
http: //a.files.bbci.co.uk/media/live/manifesto/audio/simulcast/hls/uk/sbr_med/ak/bbc_radio_three.m3u8

and that for outside the UK:
http: //a.files.bbci.co.uk/media/live/manifesto/audio/simulcast/hls/nonuk/sbr_low/ak/bbc_radio_three.m3u8

I do hope your Sonos is compatible with these HLS streams.

They are no longer mp3 streams so the instructions found here for adding radio stations:
https: //www.howtogeek.com/292842/ho...-sonos-player/
don't seem to help.

Reference page for new and legacy BBC Radio streams:

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

[muzzer]

My two ‘go to’ stations are WQXR for classical and WBGO for jazz, both US and both publicly funded by subscription as far as I can see. Not internet only. Few ads, lots of music.

Sonos keeps interrupting my BBC listening to tell me the Beeb is ‘changing the way you listen to’ streams by taking its radio off ‘some streaming platforms’ or somesuch. I assume this means no more TTN on demand. Has anyone else heard this message? I may have posted about it before.

[Pulcinella]

I have just chanced upon sonatica by browsing through some Sonos links

http://sonatica.fm/

Not sure if it has been mentioned before or not (I haven't read this thread) but it's no chat at all, which might suit many folk on here.
Not sure either how you find out what they are playing/have played if a piece takes your fancy!

[Quarky]

I taught modern languages, mainly German, but my French is reasonably good but I tend to go to these stations when seeki.g music without chat, whether it be intriguing or Gallic waffle, which it sometimes is.

Yes you're probably right Gurnemanz, but I'm currently being sidelined by the issue of getting conversational French in my head, that is thinking in French. It's an interesting project, but there's a huge mountain to climb, before one can think of becoming fluent in French.

[gurnemanz]

It is useful when the classical streaming stations supply scrolling details re current work playing and performers. This saves going to their website to check. Some of my favourites do not do so - Finnish YLE, France Musique, RAI Classica. Other favourites which do provide this info are Bru Zane, BR Klassik, MDR Klassik, Venice Classic Radio

[gurnemanz]

Well, I'm finding the chat in FranceMusique.fr very intriguing, and, in the hope of understanding the presenters, I'm digging out my recollections of an 'O' Level, 50 years old, with the invaluable assistance of a diamond teacher, Alexa:: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kKYsIsibLeU

Not the same Alexa mentioned by Cloughie, I assume?

Other than that, the Contemporain stream has minimal chat.

I taught modern languages, mainly German, but my French is reasonably good but I tend to go to these stations when seeking music without chat, whether it be intriguing or Gallic waffle, which it sometimes is.

[gedsmk]

Entire recent RPO concert at Carnegie Hall.
Available here. Britten, Elgar and Holst.

https://www.wqxr.org/story/royal-philharmonic-orchestra/

[DracoM]

Try it in Google translate.
The radio stn site does have a feedback facility -- they might tell you.

[Serial_Apologist]

Is it available via Alexa? If so how is it pronounced so that it can be requested?

[Quarky]

OK but a lot of of chat.

Well, I'm finding the chat in FranceMusique.fr very intriguing, and, in the hope of understanding the presenters, I'm digging out my recollections of an 'O' Level, 50 years old, with the invaluable assistance of a diamond teacher, Alexa:: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kKYsIsibLeU

Not the same Alexa mentioned by Cloughie, I assume?

Other than that, the Contemporain stream has minimal chat.

[DracoM]

https://areena.yle.fi/audio/ohjelmat/yle-klassinen

Finnish, BUT everything on screen is translated into English.
No chat, all music, and a very wide variety of recorded, live, and relayed material that never / rarely gets aired on R3.

[teamsaint]

KUSC as mentioned upthread is excellent, if not always ( or indeed very often) cutting edge .

No news, not much in the way of adverts,pretty much just music and a bit of introduction.
Very refreshing.
And of course the weather is great, they just don’t go in about it all the time

https://www.kusc.org/

[Eine Alpensinfonie]

A few posts moved here, being somewhat off topic in the previous location.

[Sir Velo]

OK but a lot of of chat.

Sounds familiar!

[MickyD]

OK but a lot of of chat.

The two hour morning show "En Pistes !" Five days a week is really good...very little chat, a round up of new releases for 1.5 hours, then a featured artist for the remaining thirty minutes. I never miss it.