BBC radio streams how?

Audio Gear Talk RoPieee
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Hi,
I’m new to RoPieee and all is good, very good. I’m Impressed.
Everything seems to work fine for me except BBC radio streams. I have a list of streams as m3u playlists and all if them work very well. For example…

#EXTINF:-1, [;mp3] Classic FM mp3 128K Stereo
http://media-ice.musicradio.com/ClassicFMMP3

Works very well. But…

#EXTINF:-1, [;mp4a] BBC Radio 2 mp4a 320K Stereo
http://as-hls-uk-live.akamaized.net/pool_904/live/uk/bbc_radio_two/bbc_radio_two.isml/bbc_radio_two-audio%3D320000.norewind.m3u8

Does not work but it does work on other pi based platforms.

Is there a way to fix this?

Thank you.

Bob.

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AFAIK the higher resolution streams are geo-restricted to GB, GG, JE, and IM. There is a 320 AAC stream available in Roon for BBC Radio 2 for those geographic location.

As I am not in any of those locations I can only see the 96kbps stream. Maybe one of the curators in the region can add it? @BrianW

Also, this is posted in the RoPieee thread so can someone move it to the Live radio thread?

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Done /10 char.

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I would be more than happy with a 96kbps stream that works but I cannot find one.

Sorry if I posted in the wrong category but my problem is only RoPieee related I’m not using Roon at the moment.

Bob.

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Hello @Bob_Latham , try
https://as-hls-ww-live.akamaized.net/pool_904/live/ww/bbc_radio_two/bbc_radio_two.isml/bbc_radio_two-audio%3D96000.norewind.m3u8

This should play in any region. The higher stream is restricted by the BBC and won’t play irrespective of Roon’s flags.

Where are you based?

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How are you searching for it?
There has been some confusion as the which "search to use.
Just to make sure, make sure you are using the “global” search and not he “filter”:

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Hi bearFNF,
Thanks for helping me.

I’m not using Roon, I’m only using RoPieee and a list of streams in an m3u play list file.

Thank you.

Bob.

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Hi Brian,
Thanks for trying to help me.
I’m actually in the UK, no restrictions but still cannot get any BBC stream to work.
I tried your suggestion like this…
#EXTINF:-1, [;mp4a] BBC Radio 2
https://as-hls-ww-live.akamaized.net/pool_904/live/ww/bbc_radio_two/bbc_radio_two.isml/bbc_radio_two-audio%3D96000.norewind.m3u8

But no joy it doesn’t even stop the previous station playing. Have I got something else wrong. I know that mp3 streams need [;mp3] on the first line or they don’t work but is [;mp4a] correct?

Thanks again.

Bob.

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That .m3u8 stream is already a playlist. Do you really need that #EXTINF line? (Sorry, I don’t use RoPieee)

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I don’t know Brian but all the other streams I have don’t work at all without such a line. I could try it without…
thanks.
Bob.

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Ah, ok, so maybe @spockfish might be able to help. He is the author of RoPieee.

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I’d love to ask @spockfish but I don’t know how to contact him.

Thanks.

Bob.

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You’ve just pinged him.

And moving this to RoPieee , perhaps the better place.

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Hi Brian,
When I first posted this, I posted it in RoPieee but someone moved it to radio streams.
Should I move it back again and if so how do I do that?

You think @spockfish will see this?

Thanks for your help,

Bob.

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I’ve already done it.

And yes, the tagging will generate a notification for him.

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Brian you’ve been a star.
Thanks very much.
Fingers crossed.

Cheers,
Bob.

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How are you attempting to play these in Ropieee without Roon? Airplay or via one of its many other player endpoints it supports such as Squeezelite, UPnP from other server software?

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Hi CrystalGipsy, Thanks for trying to help me.

Music is stored on a Synology NAS which is running Minimserver a UPnP music server. I’m running RoPieee on a raspberry pi. It is very good, better than what I have been using except it will not play the bbc streams. I have been using an mpd based player which does play the BBC streams without issue.
Both the old and new systems are “OpenHome” players and I use the Linn app on an iPad to play music.

All stored music plays fine, mp3 based stream play fine, aac base streams play fine. but not the BBC streams.
I have a list of these streams in an m3u file and it’s just a case of tapping the stream you wish to play. One thing I have noticed though it’s probably a red herring, a couple of mp3 stream didn’t play at first on RoPieee but did on the old mpd system. That turned out to be that I had missed the [;mp3] information in the first line of the link. RoPieee didn’t like that but mpd wasn’t bothered. adding the [;mp3] fixed it.

So could it be that [;mp4a] is not correct for the stream type?
Also, if I’m playing an mp3 stream and I tap one of the BBC streams, nothing happens at all, it doesn’t even stop the mp3 stream so if I had to guess, I don’t think RoPieee is getting as far as attempting to open the stream, which is why I’m thinking about my syntax.

Sorry to bang on and thanks again for your help.

Cheers,
Bob.

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It’s not about Ropieee at all, the issue is that BBC, according to recent changes, streams only on authorized devices and, till now, it seems Minimserver isn’t that.
You can read about this here

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Yes, interesting. What I don’t understand is why the mpd based pi works fine even today. Everything the same xcept the pi software.

Thanks for that, there must be more to it though.

Cheers,

Bob.