Restriction of BBC Radio HLS/DASH to authorised third parties

[tommyrot]

So, my reading of that clause is that the BBC don't want solutions which rely on end-users adding the raw streams to their streamers/players. OK. Then it follows that intermediaries (like Naim / Linn / MinimStreamer etc.) provision the streams on the backend and provide a front-end where users simply play BBC stations without fiddling with streams. So, post-authorisation, Naim have updated their BBC HLS streams and my preset stations have continued as before without my needing to make changes.

Hmm... I'm picturing how that might work via Minimstreamer to my Linn DS. Simon, I wonder if you could provide an end point that maps BBC streams to URLs hosted on Minimserver so we could add those minimserver URLs to our local .m3u files and never need to care about the underlying streams. Example below.

an example .m3u on a local NAS
#EXTM3U
#EXTINF:-1,BBC Radio 3 320k
https://some-subdomain.minimserver.com/m...bbc/r3320k


on some-subdomain.minimserver.com
#EXTM3U
#EXTINF:-1,BBC Radio 3 320k
http://a.files.bbci.co.uk/media/live/man...three.m3u8


You could even bake these into MinimStreamer, so users don't even have to create .m3u files at all. They could just browse the MinimServer tree and save/bookmark/pin them as radio stations.

If this kind of approach meets the criteria, is it worth approaching the BBC again?