Restriction of BBC Radio HLS/DASH to authorised third parties

[nickc]

I too have just come to this thread, today providing my first opportunity to investigate why I could no longer access BBC Radio 3 via MininStreamer/MinimServer. The latter having proved so reliable month after month, year after year, I spent a long time troubleshooting my home network and its multiple devices before finally turning to MS/MS themselves, and arriving here to learn the problem is actually with the BBC. How despicable of them!

Fortunately, I can still listen via the 'Sounds' website on the RaspberryPi which runs MS/MS. This was always my backup when things occasionally went wrong on my default setup (MS/MS on the Rpi, serving to Volumio on another Rpi, with BubbleUPnP as controller). It's a pain having to go back to using a browser as control, but at least it works, and with VNC I can use Android phone, tablet or my PC to access Chrome on the Rpi remotely. But I lament losing the seamless ease and reliability of MS/MS for my radio listening. I'm sure if a solution is possible, Simon will find it. I'm hugely grateful to him and all who have posted on this thread for clarifying what's happened and investigating possible ways forward. Time to start monitoring the forum on a daily basis again!