BBC Radio BBC Radio HLS streams

[Garyct]

The BBC recently removed its radio HLS streams, but replacements have been found by Garfield Lucas and posted on his Garfnet web site: Latest BBC HLS streams

I have found that if you copy/paste the rewindable 320k stream links from the text files he provides, the Wiim player plays the stream fully rewound, i.e. 6 hours behind live, with no means to scroll through the timeline. Support for that would be nice, since it would be one alternative solution to the problem with trying to use Alexa (see Rewinding live BBC radio with Alexa commands).

The non-rewindable stream links do work, but used as-is they stream at 96k. To get the higher quality 320k streams, it’s just a matter of editing the url and replacing 96000 with 320000.

 

[Brantome]

Yeah, the links under BBC-Radio-lstn-HLS-.m3u on this Github page seem to work ok - just edit them for the 320K streams if you're in the UK https://gist.github.com/bpsib/67089b959e4fa898af69fea59ad74bc3

Or use LMS' BBC plugin which I prefer

 

[bernard23]

Thanks for the help and advice. In the end, the BBC radio app in Wiim streams at 16/48 so that's fine, as good / probably better than my Denon FM tuner.

 

[AndyB]

As I wrote in another section, BBC radio station can be recovered by retuning them in the music services pane of the browse section of the wiim app and re-assigning them to my presets.

 

[mjsmith78]

Please can you explain how to 'retune'? I find they all work except Radio 3.

 

[Burnside]

Please can you explain how to 'retune'? I find they all work except Radio 3.

I think they mean deleting the existing preset and re-doing them afresh, but I’m not sure if that’s resolved it for everyone

 

[Burnside]

Also, see this thread where the use of revised URLs and Open Network Stream is discussed

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Thread 'BBC Radio Streams gone?'

Jan 21, 2025

Was listening to BBC 6 Music today and now...nothing. Neither the Wiim BBC Radio Music Service option nor the direct Internet stream works. Worryingly the Internet stream simply says "gone" when inserted into my Web browser.

I know the BBC is pushing everyone to BBC sounds but this isn't integrated into the wiim app which is a problem....

Anyone experiencing the same issue?

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[epicsurfskinick]

I think they mean deleting the existing preset and re-doing them afresh, but I’m not sure if that’s resolved it for everyone

Happened to me on Monday 27 Jan 2025, radio 2 not working, 6 music fine. Tried deleting & adding preset & radio 2 still dead. Could only get radio 2 by using voice command with remote, it seems to open up stream from BBC sounds & plays but you can't save it as preset for some reason. New to wiim ultra, only set up last weekend , thanks

 

[Burnside]

Happened to me on Monday 27 Jan 2025, radio 2 not working, 6 music fine. Tried deleting & adding preset & radio 2 still dead. Could only get radio 2 by using voice command with remote, it seems to open up stream from BBC sounds & plays but you can't save it as preset for some reason. New to wiim ultra, only set up last weekend , thanks

When you use voice, it’s the Alexa cloud service that’s providing the stream - you can’t preset a cloud service request.

 

[Burgo]

Happened to me on Monday 27 Jan 2025, radio 2 not working, 6 music fine. Tried deleting & adding preset & radio 2 still dead. Could only get radio 2 by using voice command with remote, it seems to open up stream from BBC sounds & plays but you can't save it as preset for some reason. New to wiim ultra, only set up last weekend , thanks

https://lstn.lv/bbcradio.m3u8?station=bbc_radio_two&bitrate=320000 works for me now.