BBC Radio 4

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Scooot

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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  • Scooot

    Thanks for the suggestion. I can’t see anyway of entering it manually using the bluos/bluesound app.

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  • Scooot

    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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  • Scooot

    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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  • Scooot

    Ah ok I’ll try that thanks

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  • Pad-Rock

    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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  • Scooot

    Thanks Seppi, that works. I chose the 320k link but I don’t suppose it matters.

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  • Scooot

    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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  • Martin Hayman

    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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  • Martin Hayman
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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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  • Paul Warner

    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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  • Tony W.
    Product Support Manager

    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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  • Paul Warner

    Thanks Tony.  Are these streams free of ads and messages?

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  • Martin Hayman
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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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