BBC radio streams not working

[simoncn]

(20-02-2015 00:15)Pastim Wrote:  See http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/internet/entr..._121434789 - I hope it's not too incorrect or misleading. If it is please correct it or tell me what you'd like me to say.

This looks good. Thanks very much!

Quote:I don't really understand the distinction you are making since many, if not most, Internet Radios are also UPnP clients aren't they? Following your instructions on minimradio seems to work for my UPnP renderers so I don't quite see what the issue is.

There is a big difference between playing a local file of known length and playing an unbounded network stream. Many players that support the former via their UPnP interface don't support the latter via their UPnP interface. Using the custom radio URL approach guarantees that the latter will work.

Quote:See also my notes on aac: transcoding not seeming to work for me.

See my recent response. I think you have probably been using the wrong approach by hand-editing generated URLs. This is likely to fail because the MIME type of the stream won't match the altered URL.