BBC Radio 3 'Unwind'

[paul_lavers]

Today BBC launched radio 3 unwind. Its available on BBC Sounds but I haven’t found a URL for the stream. Any ideas?

[bearFNF]

I see it in the Roon Directory, but it is Geo-restricted to GB so I can’t see it in Roon (or test the stream):

[BrianW (Brian)]

I’m in the process of adding and finding a stream.

I’ve found a UK only stream but it appears to suffer from the DR stations problem of a delayed stream.

Added it anyway for now.

Haven’t found a non-uk stream yet.

[bearFNF]

I looked also, but my URL-foo is not as strong as yours…

[BrianW (Brian)]

Still can’t get a non-uk stream but the UK stream is only delayed by a few seconds.

[paul_lavers]

Great. Seems to work for me (I’m in UK) What is “DR stations problem of a delayed stream.”?

[BrianW (Brian)]

Ahh, just vpn’d to the US - station not available there. That explains things.

[BrianW (Brian)]

@paul_lavers

What is “DR stations problem of a delayed stream.”?

There is a bug in Roon whereby certain .m3u8/hls streams start behind the live stream. In this case the delay is so small as to be of no concern.

[AndyR (Andy)]

Hi @BrianW - Have you updated the original BBC R3 stream url’s too?

They look to be a different/unfamiliar format…

[BrianW (Brian)]

@AndyR

Have you updated the original BBC R3 stream url’s too?

? No. They are similar.

If you are thinking of the as-hls-uk-live.akamaized.net form, that is actually what you get if you expand the playlist url I used.

[AndyR (Andy)]

Thanks. I hadn’t understood that…