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   The Natural Philosopher  wrote:   
   > > ... and won't work outside the UK if I want to listen to the BBC.   
   > >   
   > > I simply want to listen to BBC (mostly radio 4) in the simplest   
   > > possible way when I'm away from home in Europe mainland.  I.e. I want   
   > > something I can just 'turn on' (like radios used to work).   
   > >   
   > > At the moment Radio 4 on 198khz is the best option but I don't know   
   > > how long that is going to last.   
   > >   
   > Yes. .I had a similar issue,  - all my icecast streams except classic FM   
   > stopped working.   
   > I only now listen to classic FM   
   >   
   > Its the same with the telly. More an more woke shite on UK public   
   > service channels. Dont watch telly any more.   
   >   
   > The stream urls are available as m3u8  but the format that they use   
   > needs something like VLC to read.   
   >   
   > Now this *may* work for you with VLC installed:   
   >   
   > cvlc   
   > http://as-hls-ww-live.akamaized.net/pool_904/live/ww/bbc_radio   
   fourfm/bbc_radio_fourfm.isml/bbc_radio_fourfm-audio%3d96000.norewind.m3u8   
   >   
   >   
   > If it does, the URLs for the other BBC stations are available :   
   >   
   > https://gist.github.com/bpsib/67089b959e4fa898af69fea59ad74bc3   
   >   
   > You wont get the content information you used to get with icecast, but   
   > the audio should play.   
   >   
   > Expect it to be a shade lumpy till it gets the buffering right   
   >   
   OK, thanks, I'll try VLC on the command line.   
      
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   Chris Green   
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