Ultra Newbie questions

[Mr Onion]

I have just bought the Ultra and more or less got it set up to do the basics, however I am having a few problems with non listed BBC Radio stations.

I have tried putting in the URL (which works on the laptop) and the link on vTuner and both result in the 'buffering' icon running for what seems like hours before the 'play' icon is displayed. Hitting 'Play' results in the buffering and then back to square one.

Neither

BBC Radio Nottingham Mansfield 95.5 FM listen live

Listen to BBC Radio Nottingham Mansfield 95.5 FM live online. Stream 24/7 in high quality. Access all UK radio stations with a single click.

liveradiouk.com

nor

BBC Radio 3 listen live

Listen to BBC Radio 3 London 91.0 - 91.3 FM live online. Stream 24/7 in high quality. Access all UK radio stations with a single click.

liveradiouk.com

work

although Radio 3 works from the BBC link in the "Music Services" list

I'm obviously missing something obvious, any idea what?

Incidentally I can Chrome Cast BBC Sounds from my phone to the WiiM without a problem, but that is not what I want to do

Be gentle as this is my first toe in the streaming pool

 

[Burnside]

Use Open Network stream on the WiiM app browse page to input the urls.

See this post for the latest bbc urls, changing the 96000 I think they show to 320000 to get the max quality

BBC Radio HLS streams

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...

forum.wiimhome.com

 

[Mr Onion]

I tried the link on the github page and no joy, either with 96000 nor 320000 bitrate (buffering icon followed by the play icon)

http://lstn.lv/bbc.m3u8?station=bbc_radio_nottingham&bitrate=96000

http://lstn.lv/bbc.m3u8?station=bbc_radio_nottingham&bitrate=320000