BBC Radio 4
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Hi,
We listen to The Today Program on BBC Radio 4 every morning via a Bluesound Vault using the Bluos App.
Every now and then it freezes and just keeps repeating the last sentence. I’ve read this sometimes occurs because the system doesn’t know we’re in the UK. Is there a setting somewhere I can fix this if this is the cause?
Also when trying to reselect the channel in the tunlin Menu by searching for BBC Radio 4 I only seen to be able to find a BBC Radio 4 channel which is playing “The Best of Today” and not a channel that is obviously live. Is this part of the same problem?
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I am in the UK and have seen this but not a R4 or BBC fan, however I do have bookmarked this page which has a lot of streams which you could enter manually and see if they are better behaved. This issue crops up regularly on other hifi forums.
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Thanks for the suggestion. I can’t see anyway of entering it manually using the bluos/bluesound app.
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Maybe it’s something to do with this:
https://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/internet/entries/481e7233-0aea-4b15-8ace-878ce549108c
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From memory…
Bluesound App Tunein menu… favourites… add custom
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Thanks again, found that. I tried the BBC Sounds Radio 4 URL but it doesn’t like that.
Anyway, I was hoping I could use the bluos menu as normal as I have for the past few years but maybe bluos and bluesound can’t handle it anymore.
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I think you entered the website rather than a stream, on the page I linked to on the right hand side are various bitrate buttons, those are the ones you need to try.
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Ah ok I’ll try that thanks
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I'm the same - also use listen to Radio 4 in the morning on TuneIn and have it stored as a preset. One thing that has been odd recently, is that the stream on TuneIn seems to suddenly switch to a pre-recorded message say that due to rights reasons they can't broadcast. This appears to be completely random and not related to anything rights related material (it's a news show!), and seems pretty temporary. Anyone else had this?
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Thanks Seppi, that works. I chose the 320k link but I don’t suppose it matters.
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Excellent, unfortunately anyone reading from outside of the UK the links probably won’t work.
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Hi @Pad-Roc, yes we’ve had that problem as well in the past, not lately though. I suspect it’s all linked to the same cause.
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I imagine the procedure above will also work for Radio 3?
But I don't think it will work for BBC Sounds, so one can timeshift broadcasts?
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yes... you can add pretty much any URL stream but not the time-shifts as this would require work by the BBC.
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I imagine it's likelier there's no content-licensing agreement in place. No doubt the BBC could field the engineering resources at need, but would rather you used their own platform. The workaround (ha!) is to send the BBC Sounds stream to the Node via Bluetooth. But that kinda defeats the purpose of the thing, and is lame.
Update: I can point the BBC Sounds content stream direct from the M1 Mac, no problem, using AirPlay. So I can choose from the BBC back catalogue at will. The same seems to apply to my own back catalogue. So, progress.
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I am considering buying a Bluesound Powernode. However BBC radio is important to me and there seems to be some confusion/doubt as to whether this is available via Tunein.
Would a simple workaround be to add, for example, the URL for BBC radio 4 and save it as a Custom Station in Tunein?
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It would be easier to locate BBC4 via TuneIn and just save it as a favourite. Since this post started, BluOS in conjunction with TuneIn and The BBC have exclusivity to host and receive SLS streams for the BBC in TuneIn.
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Thanks Tony. Are these streams free of ads and messages?
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Yes, there are no ads. But still no native support for the BBC Sounds archive I think, so no replays of Glastonbury I'm afraid.
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